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To mitigate risks of ecosystem service degradation in dryland landscapes, we need to ensure that tradeoffs are managed through informed land use, especially in high potential agricultural areas, such as the Guinea Savanna zone in Africa. The Guinea Savanna zone in Africa was described in a recent FAO/World Bank publication as the “sleeping giant” for commercial agriculture, with potential […]

The rate of unemployment among youths in Nigeria is growing at an alarming rate. Most youths prefer to settle for white collar jobs rather than work in agriculture. Agriculture is usually seen as something that poor and rural people do. There is an urgent need for reorientation and building Nigerian youths’ capacity towards the agriculture […]

Artisanal mining causes serious environmental damage through water contamination with heavy metals like mercury and cyanide, deforestation, soil erosion and siltation. Because of this, artisanal mining has been criminalized in Zimbabwe. However, the criminalization of artisanal mining has failed to stop the activity of an estimated 500,000 artisanal miners extracting gold, diamonds, tantalite and chrome […]

Worldwide, an estimated 34 million hectares of irrigated farmland are affected by high salinity, representing 11 percent of the total irrigated land, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. If these lands were rehabilitated, they could effectively produce 20 percent of the global wheat production, which could generate an additional $42 billion of revenue […]

Soils are the forgotten ecosystem service, says Maurizio Guadagni, rural development specialist at the World Bank.  But he is out to change that.  For him they are the key to food security, to biodiversity protection and especially to mitigating and adapting to climate change. Guadagni is connected to the new Bridging Agriculture and Conservation Initiative, launched […]

“Slow Food Youth Germany” is a group of young activists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds that are actively involved in their communities to create a better food system. One of the focuses of our work is putting on fun and interactive events to make consumers more aware of the issues affecting our food system and […]