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Farming Matters 31.1 - Soils for life - Cover photo
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Farming Matters 31.1 - Soils for life - Back cover photo
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Nico Vandevannet
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Working in the field
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Rita Ikponmwosa Uwaka
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Through events such as soil carbon days we aim to encourage, inform and enable farmers to reduce the carbon emissions from their businesses
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Direct drilling onto a field where the previous crop’s residues were used to keep the soil covered
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Vetch, the leguminous forage crop is one of many forage species used to build carbon in the soils and feed livestock
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Idrissa Ouédraogo
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Branches of camel's foot are cut from the surrounding scrub and added as mulch to the degraded patches of soil
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Sorghum growing on a field where the camel's foot was applied and crusted soils are usable again
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Farmers visiting a research station where agronomists are evaluating how different amounts of mulch impact crop yields
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Preliminary results show that mulching with two tonnes of camel's foot doubles sorghum yields
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Cattle feeding on crop residues and camel's foot during the dry season
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Camel's foot as tree
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Farmers observing trials to observe how different amounts of mulch impact sorghum yields
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Large piles of rice straw scatter the landscape before being burnt or thrown into the river
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A group of farmers making a compost pile
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Adding a soil layer to the top of the compost pile
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Pablo Tittonell
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An infiltration trench with a living boundary used to stop soil erosion
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90% of farmers supported by CEPAD have adopted 'living erosion control' such as planting along contours
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Farmers working together to make compost
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Octavio Saldaña Delgadillo enjoys the benefits of soil conservation and looks forward to the day when he can stop working as a builder for extra income
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CEPAD staff make frequent visits to farmers' fields
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Irene Cardoso
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Farmers came up with some very effective solutions to increase soil organic matter
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Irene Cardoso - The success was helped by using participatory methods, discussing the problems and planning actions together with farmers
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the tallest shrubs are cut and left on the ground as mulch
