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 Georgina Smith | Nov 14, 2017
New maps show massive potential to store more carbon in farmland soils through better management practices, contributing to global emission reduction targets; the US emits 5 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalents each year. By better managing farmland soil, the amount of...
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 Job Kihara | Jun 14, 2017
By Job Kihara, Peter Bolo, Michael Kinyua, John Mukalama, Rolf Sommer, and Andrew Margenot. “Where farmyard manure has been added, there is living soil. But the soil is dead where there is only mineral fertilizer application”. This statement by Erest Omulama, a...
by Claudia Calderón | Jun 5, 2017
By Guy Henry | Jun 05, 2017 Over 80% of the Latin American population now lives in urban areas. Many of them are poor and have limited access to healthy food at affordable prices. As a result, they suffer disproportionately from a double burden: hunger and...