SustInAfrica Field Trials in Tunisia: Exploring the Benefits of Agroecological Practices for Soil Health and Crop Yield In the 2023/2024 season, the agroecological zones of Northern and Central Tunisia, where …
Teabag experiments in Tunisia
Implementation of a new experiment in Tunisia olive groves. To evaluate the ecosystem services of nutrient and carbon cycling, an experiment of litter decomposition, using the teabag method, was implemented …
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Visit our Joint Youtube channel – Sustainable Intensification in Africa-SFS35 H2020 Projects Partners: What we are doing The agricultural sectors in Africa and Europe share the common challenge of moving …
Empowering Agricultural Sustainability
SustInAfrica Workshops in Tunisia, Egypt, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Ghana Background The SustInAfrica project addresses multifaceted challenges affecting communities in Tunisia, Egypt, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. Issues such as …
Scaling Off-Farm Production of Organic and Biofertilizers in Africa: A Scoping Study
Blog post by Pierre Ellssel (BOKU, Vienna) In the heart of Berlin at the renowned Humboldt University, we had the privilege of participating in the Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Research …
SustInAfrica’s third annual meeting in Bari
SustInAfrica consortium gathered for its third annual meeting in Bari, Italy, during the first week of September. CIHEAM Bari hosted the 3-day meeting with participants from Italy, Germany, Austria, Ireland, …
The 5th AU-EU Agriculture Ministerial Conference
Ground-breaking Projects Spearheading Sustainable Agriculture in Africa. In recent developments in African agriculture, five key projects were highlighted in a thematic session titled “Research and Innovation for smarter policies and …
Convergence and divergence of farming technologies, agroecological principles and smallholder agriculture
Researchers from SustInAfrica participated at TROPENTAG 2022, the conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development. The conference contribution of SIA colleagues dealt with the …
SustInAfrica Progress Report 2022
SustInAfrica has started on September 20 and is expected to be concluded in August 25. The overall goal of is to empower West and North African smallholder farmers and small- …
Enhancing quality and yield of olive production through application of organic farming practices in Egypt
Context In Egypt, olive cultivationis is as old as 3000+ years, as documented by wall-drawing of ancient Egyptians (Fig. 1 illustrats photos of wall-paiting of ancient Egyptians harvesting olive from …