Climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation and economic profitability of conservation agriculture: some examples from cereal systems of Indo-Gangetic Plains

Is conservation agriculture ‘climate-smart’ for maize farmers in the highlands of Tanzania?

Effects of nitrogen fertilizer and manure application on storage of carbon and nitrogen under continuous maize cropping in Arenosols and Luvisols of Zimbabwe

Mitigation of climate change through soil organic carbon sequestration in smallholder farming systems of Zimbabwe

Mitigation of climate change through soil organic carbon sequestration in smallholder farming systems of Zimbabwe from CCAFS | CGIAR program – Climate Change, Agriculture and …read more

Agricultural greenhouse gas calculators overestimate fluxes in tropical farming systems

Agricultural greenhouse gas calculators overestimate fluxes in tropical farming systems from CCAFS | CGIAR program – Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

Laser land levelling: How it strikes all the right climate-smart cords

Life in rural India evokes an image of a farmer levelling the land with an oxen-drawn scraper. It is one of the most basic and …read more

Japanese research institutions, CGIAR focus on reducing nitrification in agriculture

Researchers form a new consortium to improve soil health and water quality, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions through biological nitrification inhibition. Global nitrogen fertilizer consumption …read more

Partitioning the contributions of biochar properties to enhanced biological nitrogen fixation in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)

Identifying secure and low carbon food production practices: A case study in Kenya and Ethiopia

Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from rice and maize production in diversified rice cropping systems