Smallholder fodder production-An intergatred approach to food security

Agriculture is one of hardest hit sectors by the changing climate. While mixed farming has always been part of smallholder farming in Zambia, Livestock production is always secondary to crop production. However, while this is the case, livestock has always played a major role in crop production through animal droght power, provision of cowdung as…

Minimum Tilage for climate change adaptation

Amidst the uncertainty surrounding the rainfall pattern due to climate change, farmers are turning to conservation agriculture under which the practices of minimum soil disturbance and early planting are emphasised. Listen to the success story of some farmers in Central Zambia.

Ethiopia and Morocco follow Gabon’s footsteps in submitting their INDCs to UNFCCC

Ethiopia and Morrocco have become the latest African countries after Gabon to submit their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions-INDCs. The Conference of the Parties (COP), by its decision 1/CP.19, invited all Parties to initiate or intensify domestic preparations for their INDCs towards achieving the objective of the Convention as set out in its Article 2, without…