The French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) is launching its "Feeding the living" podcast, with the first season entitled "Food is changing the world". Over the course of six episodes, each set to the rhythm of a field experiment in the South, listeners can discover the different levers...

CARI is launching a dynamic Desertif’actions 2022 initiative with activities to build and carry out advocacy throughout the year. Desertif’actions 2022 aims to put agroecology at the top of the agenda in the fight against desertification and land degradation, by sharing and pooling the results of actions carried out by...

Innovation in agronomy by large numbers of smallholder farmers will need to accelerate if global commitments to end hunger are to be achieved in the face of major climate and other global change that are both caused by, and impact, agriculture. Conventional research and development in agronomy have involved a...

The growing need to intensify smallholder farming systems to enhance food security for a rapidly growing population in sub-Saharan Africa constitutes a major sustainability challenge. Intensification of agriculture has often resulted in degraded, highly vulnerable, exhausted and unproductive soils. Even though smallholder farming systems are heterogeneous and dynamic, conventional approaches...

Recent high-level policy papers call for scaling-up agroforestry to sustainably increase agricultural production and maintain environmental services. Evidence suggests that this will not be achieved by wide scale promotion of a few iconic agroforestry practices. Instead, three key issues need to be addressed. First, fine-scale variation in social, economic and...

A study was conducted to discuss the spatial distribution of root system of walnut trees and wheat in walnut & wheat intercropping system by soil coring method at Hetian, in southern Xinjiang. Above-ground biomass, land equivalent ratio and the spatial distribution of roots biological characteristics were analyzed in the different...