December 3, 2019
Overcoming Sanitation Skepticism in India, A Question of Habit, Equality and Education
By Priska Prasetya From the outset, I warn you. Sanitation is not the most pleasant of topics, but it is a necessary one. India has a population of 1.3 billion people. It is estimated that…
Read MoreDecember 2, 2019
To Reduce Farmer Suicides India Needs More Efficient Irrigation
Over the last decade, one million poor farmers in India have committed suicide. One might reasonably ask what does this have to do with KS Gopal, who is in the water management business. In Gopal’s…
Read MoreDecember 1, 2019
Good Grazing and Better Market Access Is the Key to Meat Naturally Success
It was a rather simple approach to an age-old issue of pasture degradation, but until a South African program called Meat Naturally came along, it apparently had never been considered. Instead of bringing cows long-distances to…
Read MoreNovember 30, 2019
The Three Demons In A Plant’s Life: AST Fights Drought, Salinity, and Temperature
The three super evils in the galaxy of plant development and the bane of every farmer who has ever put a hoe or tractor blade in the ground are drought, salinity, and temperature stress. A…
Read MoreNovember 29, 2019
Dragonfly Forecasts Rain? To See Is to Believe
It might be difficult for most city slickers to understand, but yes, a low flying dragonfly is a fairly accurate prognosticator of weather patterns, as is the straightness of a column of ants. Dr. Muthoni…
Read MoreNovember 28, 2019
Navigating Environmental Hurdles: SkyFox Steps Up To the Plate
When West African entrepreneur Dr. Oliver Ujah set out to kill two birds with one stone—provide both fish and irrigation—he didn’t realize all the environmental hurdles he would have to navigate. Now he knows, and,…
Read MoreNovember 27, 2019
How to Grow Food in Land People Think is Useless
For 27 years, Nazmul Islam Chowdhury has worked with the international agency Practical Action. During the course of his work, he came upon an innovative way to grow crops on sandbars left after Bangladesh’s monsoon…
Read MoreNovember 26, 2019
Where Tractors Don’t Work, An Ox is a Beautiful Animal
By Dr. Melesse Temesgen It might seem a little strange in a world of gigantic John Deere and Caterpillar tractors, but in my world, which is Ethiopia, I am partial to a big, strong animal,…
Read MoreNovember 25, 2019
Overcoming Adversity To Bring Measured Irrigation to Peru
By German Mori Arbulu What do you do when a major partner withdraws from a project just after it has been launched? Well, you don’t give up. There are always options on the old drawing…
Read MoreNovember 24, 2019
Nurturing My Corner of the World: How Indigenous Knowledge Combats Drought
By Dr. Muthoni Masinde We are fast out-growing our planet. By 2050, there will be nine billion of us, and we will only have sufficient year-around consumable water for a third of this number. One…
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