Faster, cheaper and more precise than conventional testing, soil spectroscopy analysis gives giving agricultural producers at all scales vital information on how to improve and protect their soils.
An evaluation finds real change in three specific areas: demonstrating landscape approaches in ways that encourage farmers, the government, donors and NGOs to embrace these strategies; innovating with geospatial data; and promoting and removing barriers to conservation technologies.
A huge benefit to smallholders, as it quickly and cost effectively measures and maps soil and plant properties, also matching soil problems with solutions.
In the struggle to produce more food, and on increasingly degraded lands, access to reliable and contextual information can help farmers make better informed decisions.
A rapid and low-cost soil spectral technique helped small-scale farmers in the Murang’a County learn about and care for their soil, increasing their maize yields.
The new soil library and service will help the world address the climate crisis through better understanding of soils for improving productivity and reversing land degradation.
ICRAF organised the initial stakeholder engagement workshop to co-design and develop an online Resource Hub to tackle land degradation in the semi-arid drylands of Makueni County, Kenya
A recent study by IFPRI supported by WLE came up with key insights in the role of women’s empowerment for soil health that can be directly incorporated into improved soil health management.
Seventeen African countries are now using soil–plant spectral technology to restore soils and boost agricultural production, food security and livelihoods.
Using these new decision analysis approaches scientists can more realistically model scenarios for agricultural development and natural resource management in the context of climate change mitigation.
New soil strategies, water technology, policy initiatives and advances on restoring degraded landscapes are bringing cross-sectoral and cross-scale results in Ethiopia's agricultural sector.
