Tags: soils

ILRI News on soils

25 Aug 2021

Improving soil carbon measurements to empower African smallholders

The amount of carbon in farm soils is important to farmers. Soils with high carbon contents tend to provide better yields. They also tend to be more resilient to weather-related crop failure. But measuring the amount of carbon in soil can be expensive and involve several steps. That can make it...

Africa RISING communications

soils

ILRI clippings

08 Apr 2019

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

Su Kahumbu with John Njure, a small-scale Kenyan dairy farmer (photo credit: iCow). TED Fellow Su Kahumbu is one of Kenya’s most authoritative and sustainable farmers. She is the brains behind two social enterprises: ‘Green Dreams TECH Ltd’, an organic farm and service connecting Kenya’s small-...

Susan MacMillanILRI Emeritus Fellow

Africa RISING feed

11 Jun 2018

The value of systems research—reflections from Africa RISING partners

A frica RISING – a research-in-development program –followed a ‘farming systems research’ approach in line with its objective of ‘creating opportunities for smallholder farm households to move out of hunger and poverty through sustainably intensified farming systems that improve food, nutrition,...