CSA Videos
Conservation Agriculture and Bioreclamation of Degraded Lands in Senegal: restoring productivity and resilience of degraded lands to improve nutrition and women’s incomes
Yaajeende is a Feed the Future project focusing on vulnerable women to provide them with access to land for producing nutritious food and earning income during the rainy season. The project works with communities to allocate degraded, abandoned lands to…
Video: Pastoralist Voices on Climate Change
Pastoralist Voices on Climate Change illustrates the collaborative and participatory process between scientists and pastoralists in Kenya, documenting two collaborative workshops whereby local land users directly inform the scientific process and climate change science, which, in turn, feeds back to…
PARIMA – Pastoral Risk Management in Southern Ethiopia
Pastoral people have lived on the Borana Plateau of southern Ethiopia for centuries. But their traditional way of life is threatened by recurrent droughts, human and livestock population growth, and increased competition –even armed conflict–over ever-scarcer pasture and water. The…
Lake Naivasha Payment for Environmental Services – Farmers Helping Farmers and the Environment
In this successful payment for watershed services (PES/PWS) pilot program, CARE-Kenya, World Wildlife Fund, and the Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture helped major commercial horticulture growers (flowers) on the banks of Lake Naivasha in Kenya’s Rift Valley test a program to…
India’s rice revolution – audio slideshow
Farmers in parts of India are breaking growing records, using less seed, less water, and compost as fertiliser. This ground-breaking method of cultivation, developed in Madagascar, is boosting yields and changing lives for the farmers. Norman Uphoff, professor at Cornell…
Getting Smart About Change: Climate and Agriculture
At the 2014 Feed the Future Global Forum, Dennis Garrity, United Nations Drylands Ambassador and Former Executive Director of the World Agroforestry Centre, moderated a panel on the importance of addressing the current and future threats of climate change in…
COP17 Climate-smart agriculture trailer – ARDD 2011
Why is climate-smart agriculture important, and can it work? Watch this 3 minute trailer for an insight into what the challenges are, and where the solutions might lie. Originally produced to introduce the Learning Events section of Agriculture and Rural…
Burkina Faso Farmers Lead the Way on Food Security and Climate Change Resilience
If you want to know how to grow crops in the face of climate change, drought, and land degradation, ask Ousséni Kindo, Ousséni Zoromé, or Yacouba Sawadogo—three farmers in Burkina Faso’s Yatenga region. Policy makers, researchers, and NGO representatives gathered…
Beauty and the Beef: Achieving Compatibility Between Wildlife Conservation and Livestock Production
African farmers living in areas with wildlife are faced with a serious dilemma: they cannot sell their healthy, free range beef to the lucrative export market. Current international trade practices dictate that they cannot protect the wildlife and, at the…
Video: A good news story for a deforested and degraded world: Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration
Arguably one of the most successful land regeneration projects in the world, Farmer Managed Natural Regeneraton (FMNR), beginning in Niger during the 1980s, has revegetated three million hectares of arid land in that country alone – bringing back biodiversity in…
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