Sustainable Agriculture

No secret: it really is the eleventh hour. We can rescue agriculture and the environment. We just need to seize the opportunities, says Hans R. Herren

Milpa, is the centuries old agriculture system in Mexico. Unfortunately it’s almost unknown - have you heard about it?

Inhabitants are dealing with a water shortage in the Andes. To solve this problem, some Peruvian villages used an ancient technique: the ‘water sowing."

Organic farming has arrived in Saudi Arabia but can it stop the dramatic decline in water reserves on the Arabian peninsula?

A small company is helping the prehispanic survivors inhabitants on a group of artificial islands in Mexico to maintain their declining farming activity.

The world's soil has lost up to 80 percent of its carbon due to our toxic habits and practices but Robert Reed from Recology may have a solution.

Kenyan prisoners fight agricultural woes with super crop.

A start up company in Kenya is making human hair extensions from banana stalks, sating growing local demand.

Kenya loses up to 40% of its farm produce during post-harvest mostly through poor storage and pest attacks, costing the country over $500 million annually.

Amidst a spiraling crisis of farmer suicide, authorities in central India have received reports of farmers selling their children into forced labour.

Kenyan farmers have found a lifeline in adding value to their harvested produce, stepping up in sustainable agriculture and ensuring food security.

Youth in Kenya is trying to reverse the devastating effects of Fungi Aspergillus that claimed their parents’ lives after aflatoxin poisining through maize.