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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 […]

While more and more Nigerian youth are encouraged today with hopes of a profitable career in agriculture, there is little discussion about the challenges awaiting them if they do decide to hop in. From the very beginning, they face huge financial hurdles – the nation’s banks and financial houses are not likely to fund agri-projects […]

Clad in old worn-out clothing, armed with a spear and trapping net, the local poacher descends onto the mangrove forest looking for whatever luck will hand him, whether a monitor lizard or meat bird. He does not know he is chopping off the very branch supporting him. That branch is the ecosystem of deltas and […]

By Zaid Shopeju Zaid Shopeju will be sharing his success story at Youth: The future of sustainable landscapes to be held at the Global Landscapes Forum at 9am CET November 16, 2013. If you can’t make it to Warsaw, watch the event online at archive.globallandscapesforum.org/live-stream. I grew up in Surulere, Nigeria one of the densely […]