Resources Tagged: Resilience

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  1. Increasing Smallholder Resilience Through Agroforestry

    2016-11-15 Resilience refers to the capacity for ecological systems to persist and absorb changes. Climate-change resilience encompasses a dual function, to absorb shock as well as to self-renew to cope with new circumstances. Agroforestry offers both mitigation and adaptation strategies for enhancing...
    Resilience Climate Change Agroforestry

  2. Increasing smallholder resilience through agroforestry

    Resilience refers to the capacity for ecological systems to persist and absorb changes. Climate-change resilience encompasses a dual function, to absorb shock as well as to self-renew to cope with new circumstances. Agroforestry offers both mitigation and adaptation strategies for enhancing...
    Soil crop diversification biomass Resilience Agroforestry Carbon Sequestration conservation Climate Change

  3. Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)

    2017-02-09 This session will demonstrate Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) as a low-cost, sustainable land-restoration technique used to combat poverty and hunger amongst poor subsistence farmers in developing countries by increasing food, fodder and livelihood production, while enhancing...
    Subsistence Farming Sustainability FMNR Farmer Managed Land Restoration Farming Resilience East Africa

  4. Greener Food Production in Africa Resilient Crops and Zonal Management

    2017-02-08 Soil degradation and rapid change are faced across Africa, and require attention to both old and new technologies. Over two decades of action research with farmers in Malawi has shown that smallholder food production and nutrition can be improved through biological principles and targeted use of...
    Soil Degradation Resilience Food Security Smallholder East Africa

  5. Famine in the Horn of Africa

    2011-10-20 The current drought and famine in the Horn of Africa are deeply distressing. The severe drought of the past year has put an estimated 12 million or more people in danger of starvation.
    Pastoralist Famine Smallholder Resilience Conservation Agric... FMNR Indigenous Food Pl...

  6. How to Work Livestock into a Conservation Agriculture System

    2017-02-08 In marginal environments where strong crop-livestock interactions exist, inclusive and equitable access to finance, well-functioning land rental markets, and efficient provision of extension advisory services contribute significantly towards the shift to more sustainable land use management and...
    Livestock Sustainable Land Use Conservation Agric... Resilience East Africa

  7. Greener Food Production in Africa Resilient Crops and Zonal Management

    Soil degradation and rapid change are faced across Africa, and require attention to both old and new technologies. Over two decades of action research with farmers in Malawi has shown that smallholder food production and nutrition can be improved through biological principles and targeted use of...
    Soil Degradation Resilience Food Security Smallholder Smallholder Farm East Africa

  8. Resilient Bamboo

    2017-10-23 In September, ECHO’s Global Farm in Florida faced a fairly direct hit by Hurricane Irma. In the aftermath, one thing is abundantly clear – some things fall down and some things don’t (see our short video, After Hurricane Irma). This fact is relevant to our efforts to promote resilient farms and...
    Bamboo Resilience

  9. Mercy Corps

    We believe Communitiesare the best agents of their own change. Local marketsare the best engines of sustainable recovery. Success is built on the foundation ofgood governance. Our strategy for change Focus onplaces in transition,where conflict, disaster, political upheaval or economic collapse...
    Resilience

  10. Climate change and food security. What are the risks and how can we prepare?

    2017-11-15
    Climate Change Food Security Risk Assessment Risk Management Resilience