At dawn, the sun casts its first golden rays over the parched hills of Gwanda district in Matabeleland South, illuminating the struggles of 52-year-old Mrs Maureen Chauke.A smallholder farmer, Chauke ...

Salinity has been an enemy of agriculture for millennia because even though many crops can withstand low to moderate salt ...

Whenever we hear about climate change, it’s often in the wake of a disaster such as the recent Los Angeles wildfires.

Government, in collaboration with research institutions like the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics ...

In September 2018, a wildfire burned nearly two thousand hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano, an ecologically ...

Recent findings from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification have revealed that much of the world's farmland ...

Kenya is strengthening partnership with United Nations agencies, to accelerate sustainable development in the country’s arid and semi-arid regions, a senior government ...

Agro-Climate Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSal) has trained hundreds of residents of areas affected by erosion in ...

The Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes project, with support from the World Bank, has convened a high-level stakeholder engagement meeting focused on the strategic management of the ...

Hyderabad’s semi-arid climate, characterized by prolonged heat waves and occasional water shortages, increases the likelihood ...