📣 Get the chance to make a difference in the fight against #ClimateChange!
Apply now for the Carbon Sequestration Fellowship, a 4-month scientific internship program focusing on greenhouse gas emissions & carbon storage in agricultural systems.
✅ https://t.co/aEIQfZBHIa
@KropffMartin , the One CGIAR RAFS director, pledging his support to the #LCSR initiative in their objective to tackle CC mtigation and adaptation at scale. And, importantly, to grow the livestock portfolio of the One CGIAR!
@KenGiller @BiovIntCIAT_eng Crotalaria juncea, unlike many other C. species, however not toxic. Provides good forage.
With the current rise in fertiliser prices, its green manure function of specific interest.
I was also told this week it provides good nematode control - yet to confirm that statement...
"What we've seen today is really, really, really worrying."
In Somalia, severe drought is tightening its grip on vulnerable communities.
@FAO is on the ground helping rural families, but more urgent and scaled up support is needed.
More from @EPeterschmitt, FAO Somalia Rep 👇
“Realizing economic and environmental gains from cultivated forages and feed reserves in Ethiopia” open access in CABI Reviews: Bhramar Dey @CRSnews, An Notenbaert @Annotie, Harinder Makkar, Solomon Mwendia, Yonas Sahlu & Michael Peters @BiovIntCIAT_eng
https://t.co/yVhOCDdqz6
🌎#Biodiversity, including genetic diversity, is decreasing at an alarming rate.
Some threats to genetic diversity include:
☀️ #ClimateChange
📉 Loss of natural habitats
🌳Environmental degradation
📈 Change in consumer trends
Learn more via @FAO ➡️https://t.co/87hBiqGlkt
Did you know soil is a living resource, home to more than 25% of our 🌎's #biodiversity?
Soil biodiversity is key to global food security, we need to protect our soils!
According to the @IPCC_CH#ClimateReport, we must capture and store #carbon. But how?
@Jacobo_ABC, an Alliance scientist who contributed to the report, writes that plants like tropical #forages are able to store carbon deep in our soil 🌾
Learn more 👇
https://t.co/Yq9HbVQEjf
Very important change in the narrative: “If meat is produced sustainably, it can be low carbon and support soil carbon and nutrients,”
Food, farming and forestry must be transformed to curb global warming, U.N. says
https://t.co/2Ev024iIu7