News Archive

Measuring soil resistance/compaction and infiltration rates (photo: Kristen Tam/ILRI)

ILRI News

Searching for easy indicators for degraded tropical pastureland soils

Surveying the grassland landscape

ILRI News

A soil safari: on a quest to restore and manage grassland soils

Emmanuel Kirwa, a boda boda soil advocate

Transforming Kenya's motorcycle taxi riders into soil experts

Improving soil carbon measurements to empower African smallholders

Kenyan agriculturist Su Kahumbu on the need for ‘pro-smallholder’ and ‘pro-soil’ policies

The value of systems research—reflections from Africa RISING partners

Site-specific nutrient management can double grain yields contributing to food security

Beef cattle grazing on American rangelands—not feedlots—could be net carbon sink

The renaissance of farming systems research in Africa