Soil health

Article

Why healthy soils are critical to building smallholders’ climate resilience

Maintaining and improving soil health is essential to ensuring farmers can stay resilient in the face of increasing pressures on land and a changing climate. Healthy soils produce better harvests, meaning farmers can harvest more even on small areas of land, and healthy soils mean healthier crops that are more resilient to extreme weather events.

Article

What Climate Change Means for Agriculture in Africa

Farmers who depend on rain to grow crops are already feeling the effects of our changing climate.

Article

Get The Dirt On Soil Testing in Tanzania

In the farming business, ensuring long-term profitability means farmers must take good care of their most important asset: their land.

Article

5 One Acre Fund Trials with Exciting Implications for Soil Health

We discuss a few innovative strategies we have successfully tested recently, and how these efforts benefit our farmers' productivity and incomes.

Article

5 Reasons Soil Health Is Key To The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals

When we think about the role of soil in the food security equation, it’s no wonder that the U.N. General Assembly chose to designate 2015 the International Year of Soils