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• Soil Conservation and Soil Fertility Management: Best Practices for the farming community

  30/04/2012 Sandra Sinon

  The farming community in Seychelles was recipients of copies of a Manual for Best Practices in Soil Conservation and Soil Fertility Management at a workshop held at Care House on Thursday 29th March 2012.The manual was drafted by Mr Keven Nancy, the Principal Officer for Research and Development Section of the Seychelles Agricultural Agency in consultation with other local counterparts and with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) under the Sustainable Land Management project being managed by the GOS-UNDP-GEF Programme Coordination Unit.    Read more

• New FAO report profiles the state of the natural resource base upon which world food production depends

  28/12/2011 Quentin Ceuppens

  Widespread degradation and deepening scarcity of land and water resources have placed a number of key food production systems around the globe at risk, posing a profound challenge to the task of feeding a world population expected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, according to a new FAO report. Read more