Water Quality and Agriculture: Meeting the Policy Challenge
The key challenges for policy makers in addressing water quality issues in agriculture are to reduce farm contaminant lost into water systems while encourage agriculture to generate or conserve a ...
Opportunities for optimization of in-field water harvesting to cope with changing climate in semi-arid smallholder farming areas of Zimbabwe
In-field water harvesting for improved crop yields in the semi-arid regions is one approach that has been used to adapt to changing the climate. ...
9 ways to engage youth in agriculture
In Africa over 200 million people are aged between 15 and 24, the youngest population in the world. This age group according to the African Economic Outlooks is expected to double in number by 2045 ...
Creating a fertile future for smallholder farmers in Africa
The main obstacle to training is literacy, he says, “so a lot of training has to be farmer-trains-farmer, or it has to be visual, or it has to be co-op-based where people meet and discuss things – you ...
FIGARO
FIGARO (Flexible and Precise Irrigation Platform to Improve Farm Scale Water Productivity) is an EU-funded project, focused on significantly reducing the use of fresh water on farm level through ...
Solutions
Do you have a solution that matches one of the identified water-related needs of African stakeholders? Please submit it to the AfriAlliance Solutions Hub here.