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5th World Congress of Conservation Agriculture – 26 and 29 of September 2011...
The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) will support the 5th WCCA and 3rd FSD be held in Australia in September...
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Regional Conservation Agriculture Symposium, in Johannesburg, South Africa,...
CARWG with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), The Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), The African Conservation...
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5th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture; 3rd Farming Systems Design...
The co-location of WCCA and FSD, with input from Landcare, provides a great opportunity to explore the application of conservation agriculture practices and principles in a systems context with...
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Crop Residues in Sustainable Mixed Crop/Livestock Systems: past literature...
These proceedings are an important source of information for animal and crop scientists working on the challenges of feeding the developing world’s rapidly rising livestock population and improving...
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Competing uses, dynamics, and production and utilization constraints of crop...
Kindu Mekonnen, SLP associate researcher of the East Africa team writes: “Biomass is a crucial resource for smallholder farmers. Crop residues form an important source of biomass but there are...
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SLP participation in the 5th World Congress of Conservation Agriculture...
SLP was part of the 5th WCCA & 3rd FSD held in Brisbane, Australia last week. Diego Valbuena (SLP Postdoc Scientist) gave an overview on the crop residue use in different mixed crop-livestock...
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Agriculture intensification and crop residue use: some preliminary results...
The SLP regional team in Southern Africa writes: “SLP Southern Africa presented the first results of the SLP-Southern Africa regional case study at the 10th African Crop Science Society Conference,...
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Intensification of crop-livestock farming systems in East Africa: A...
SLP East Africa team continues presenting preliminary results of the project on crop residue trade-offs. This time Kindu Mekonnen (ILRI-Ethiopia) will present a poster at the CIALCA International...
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SLP presents preliminary results of residue project at Planet Under Pressure...
This week in the session of Food Security of the Planet Under Pressure conference in London, Diego Valbuena presented the preliminary results of the SLP residue project. Focusing on biomass use and...
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Trade-offs of crop residue use in Kenya: Conservation Agriculture
Researchers at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) analysed potential trade-offs in maize residue use as soil mulch and livestock feed in mixed crop-livestock systems in...
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