The Scaling Conservation Agriculture-based Sustainable Intensification in Ethiopia (SCASI) project has successfully transformed traditional farming practices in the country, according to Ministry of ...

Under the scorching midday sun in the upper catchment of Ethiopia’s Abijata-Shalla National Park, a local youth group toils ...

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...

Most of us weren’t around to see the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But a mixture of drought and poor farming practices saw the topsoil of a half dozen states stripped away. Picture the dusty and desolate ...

ABSTRACT: Communal grazing lands are essential for livelihood and food security in pastoralist regions like Kajiado County, Kenya, where communities heavily depend on livestock production. However, ...

Human activities such as intensive farming and overgrazing are degrading soil nearly 1,000 times faster than natural processes. If this trend continues, global food production could drop by 10% by ...

Smallholder farmers have been taught to restore soil health by learning sustainable farming practices like vermicomposting and integrated pest management. The adoption of these techniques has led to ...

The Tigray region, located in northern Ethiopia, has a history of civil wars and recurrent conflicts. In November 2020, a new violent conflict erupted. According to a recent study in the International ...

On May 16, a rare dust storm pushed across northern Illinois, northern Indiana and the Chicago metropolitan area. Pictured here is the storm approaching Bloomington, Illinois. Soil and Water ...

On an early spring morning in central Wisconsin, the hills were still and serene under a frosty grey sky. Then the fight songs began. More than 200 students from 27 colleges and universities across ...