As young people leave rural farming communities in Africa and land degradation takes its toll, agricultural practices must be adjusted. Conservation agriculture offers a possible solution.
For International Day of Rural Women, Thrive contemplates how women farmers are coping with today’s agricultural challenges. Researchers are finding that the right interventions can benefit not only struggling farmers but also women specifically as well.
Eighteen sites around the world were just awarded Wetland City Accreditation by the Ramsar Convention. Colombo, Sri Lanka, is among this select group. IWMI and WLE are helping understand and promote the true worth of the city’s unique wetland ecosystem.
Using water productively for agriculture is key, especially in the arid parts of our world. A new study shows that combining water and land interventions is the best way forward.
On the occasion of World Habitat Day, UN Habitat is calling for ‘waste-wise cities’ that recycle and reuse waste to help realize international agendas, such as the SDGs. Accra, Ghana, leads the way, successfully turning city waste into safe and efficient fertilizer for farmers in and around the city.
How can we connect a growing urban class to the farmers who produce our food? A new online platform in Lao PDR aims to bridge this divide and restore the country’s rich natural heritage.
What do we know about the role of women in agriculture, in different societies across the globe, that can help us design more effective programs for increasing gender equity?
Currently, much of the mainstream media coverage, particularly when it comes to environmental issues limits itself to focusing on political rhetoric and disaster reportage while underlying structural changes taking place due to climate change and other factors, largely go ignored.
How many of us want to address gender in our work, but when it comes down to the specifics, aren’t quite sure how? Join the discussion- help us develop a series of collaborative questions to investigate gender in agricultural water management projects.
Myanmar's Central Dry Zone is the most water-stressed region of the entire country. By addressing challenges of both water availability and water distribution, an irrigation project supports
smallholder farmers in managing their water efficiently, collectively, and sustainably.
Eighteen sites around the world were just awarded Wetland City Accreditation by the Ramsar Convention. Colombo, Sri Lanka, is among this select group. IWMI and WLE are helping understand and promote the true worth of the city’s unique wetland ecosystem.
This week marks the launch of the new CGIAR research portfolio. Izabella Koziell, Program Director, lays out the ambitions of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).
Using satellites to measure soil moisture isn't new, but a new mathematical algorithm is making this technology more accurate, and therefore better able to predict irregular conditions.
