Agroecology

Reducing Fertilizer Dependency – Lessons from the Arsi Zone, Ethiopia

By Guta Eshetu, Femke van Woesik, Girma Senbeta, Nardos Masresha, Redeat Daniel Ethiopia’s farmlands are paying the price for decades … Continued

Carob: An Ancient Mediterranean Fruit Returns with New Uses

By Anastasia Deligianni and Giorgos Deligiannis The carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua) is one of the most characteristic trees of the … Continued

To the Hands of the Poor: Water, Trees, and Biofertilizer

By Femke van Woesik, Frank van Steenbergen and Ellinor Guldstrand In 1989, Robert Chambers, N.C. Saxena and Tushaar Shah wrote … Continued

RESOLVE in action: From Fragmentation to a Shared Agroecology Future in Lebanon

This co-authored blog is part of the ongoing partnership between MetaMeta and the Environment and Sustainable Development Unit (ESDU) at … Continued

Fighting Farm Pests with Smart Tech: Inside the MED4PEST Project and SPYCE Device

Authors: Giannis Louloudakis, Yannis Daliakopoulos, Chirag Padubidri, Sükrü Esin, Luwieke Bosma Across the Mediterranean, rodents wreak havoc on farms—gnawing through … Continued

The millennial Carob tree in Xemxija Malta

To Carob with Love

By Frank van Steenbergen There is a 1000-year-old carob tree along an ancient Roman road and pilgrims’ path in Xemxija … Continued

Lebanon’s path to resilient farming

By Inge de Willigen The sustainability of the global conventional food system is under increasing scrutiny, with strong claims that … Continued

Waste to Stimulant: Opportunities to be Ignored No Longer

By Sukru Esin In agriculture, waste is often neglected and not properly managed. This problem not only exists in … Continued

Cost Dynamics of Hedges: Turning Bunds into Profitable Agricultural Assets

by Shubham Jain , Pratik Ranjan , Arpan Mondal Introduction Hedges in the Indian agriculture landscape have been widely known … Continued

First Chickpeas

by Manzoor Ali, Salam Buzdar and Frank van Steenbergen Chickpeas have so much going for them. They are the right … Continued

Edging Forward: Pigeon Pea Hedgerows

by Arpan Mondal What if one small shift in the way we farm could solve multiple problems at once—improve nutrition, … Continued

Goat droppings for regreening

Postcard from Hingol National Park, in Balochistan, Pakistan. “This area is hyper arid and to regreen it is extremely challenging”, … Continued

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