Sep 2019
Neste panfleto, poderá encontrar três novas variedades de amendoim, lançadas recentemente em Moçambique pelo IIAM (Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique) no contexto de um projecto...
Sep 2019
Pesticides are essential for the control of infestation of disease, insect pests and weeds on different crops. Due to wide usage of synthetic pesticides which may lead to increased exposure and...
Jul 2019
Africa: a new frontier for tree invaders?
May 2019
The Department of Agricultural Research (DAR) held a one-day workshop in Maseru, Lesotho on the Integrated Pest Management Plan (IPMP) and the Environmental and Social Monitoring ...
Mar 2019
¨Micronutrients are essential for plant growth and play an important role in balanced crop nutrition. They promote the strong ,steady growth of crops that produce higher yields and increase...
Mar 2019
¨Micronutrients are essential for plant growth and play an important role in balanced crop nutrition. They promote the strong ,steady growth of crops that produce higher yields and increase...
Feb 2019
An increasing multitude of insect pests and pathogens is targeting indigenous trees of natural forests, agroforestry systems, and exotic trees in planted forests in Africa. This is raising major...
Dec 2018
In Zimbabwe, KRG is grown in rotation with tobacco and irish potato to control the root knot nematode (Meloidogyne javanica). It is a good seed producer and the seed exported to mostly Arab...
Nov 2018
To investigate the response of Bambara groundnut landraces to pre-sowing hydration, three experiments were conducted on three bambara groundnut landraces; OM1, Diphiri cream (DC) and Gaborone cream (...
Oct 2018
Conservation Agriculture (CA) is currently widely recognized as a viable approach for sustainable agriculture due to its potentially comprehensive benefits of economic, environmental, and social...
Aug 2018
This literature review summarises theory and evidence of the contribution of conservation agriculture (CA) to resilence in the event of drought. A resilient agricultural system is able to continue to...
Feb 2018
The Green Climate Fund is moving quickly to build a large and transformative project portfolio, with many projects already being implemented with the objective to adapt and/or mitigate to climate...
Dec 2017
Micronutrient deficiencies often occur as part of a cycle of malnutrition and may be coupled with protein energy malnutrition. One of the measure to fight malnutrition is through participatory...
Apr 2017
The Validation Workshop for the draft Climate-Smart Agriculture Manual brought together senior technocrats in the Government of Zimbabwe Ministries: Agriculture, Mechanization and Irrigation...
Feb 2017
This information brief highlights key findings in the Vuna report “Assessing the contributions of conservation agriculture to building resilience to drought”
Feb 2017
Climate policy commonly carries an implicit assumption that incremental improvements in agricultural systems are adequate to make them resilient to climate change. In some cases, however,...
