by Rolf Sommer | Dec 5, 2017
This piece celebrates December 5, World Soils Day, and was first posted on the Thrive Blog, of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems. Just a few weeks ago, we published a study stating that farm land soils, if managed properly, have the potential to...
by Rolf Sommer | Nov 8, 2017
This piece, which first appeared on the Thrive Blog, is published as the UN Climate Change Conference 2017 gets underway in Bonn. Did you know that in the space of a year, a smallholder farmer in Kenya could capture the same amount of carbon dioxide that a flight from...
by Rolf Sommer | Feb 21, 2017
This blog cross-posted from the Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR), outlines what CIAT is doing with partners, to assess the impact of various soil conservation practices on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from agricultural soils in India. It outlines India’s...
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