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COVER CROPS

Planting cover crops is a common and rewarding farming practice that was applied as far back as in the Roman Empire. Since then, the method has been widely used in agriculture, bringing a lot of good. Farmers reap a plethora of cover crop benefits that fit versatile objectives, both in the short-term and long-term perspective. […]

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NO-TILL CORN

No Till Corn Planting corn using no-till practices is increasing in popularity as farmers see that top yields in corn can happen without tilling the soil. Here we’ve included some tips and techniques to help you get your no-till corn crop off to a strong start. Make Sure Corn Is Planted At The Proper DepthNo-till […]

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NOTILL

Reduced Soil Erosion: One of the primary benefits of no-till farming is the reduction in soil erosion. With no-till farming, there’s minimal soil disruption – furrows are created, and seeds are planted and covered up. Less soil disruption leads to less soil erosion, from wind and water.  Click the link to learn more about no […]

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voluntary offsets

Voluntary Offset Programs Voluntary carbon markets enable businesses, governments, nonprofit organizations, universities, municipalities, and individuals to offset their emissions outside a regulatory regime. These entities can purchase offsets that were created either through the voluntary or compliance markets. Trading and demand in the voluntary market are created only by voluntary buyers (corporations, institutions, and individuals) […]

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Climate

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offsets

WHAT Carbon offsetting is the process of purchasing, and cancelling, carbon emissions credits equivalent to the carbon footprint of your activity, company, product or service. Once the carbon credits are cancelled (i.e. irredeemably taken out of circulation so that no-one else can claim the benefit of the carbon emissions reduction that they represent) you have […]

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Land

Frequently asked questions about land ownership and demand in South Africa Researched by Liesl Pretorius and Gopolang Makou This report was written by Africa Check., a non-partisan fact-checking organisation. View the original piece on their website. 1. Who owns the land in South Africa? The department of rural development and land reform has released two […]

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carbon emission

There are three major gases that are influenced by human activities and that are of interest with respect to greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). The concept of “global warming potential” (GWP or CO2e) has been developed to enable comparison of the ability of different GHGs to trap heat […]

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WSIS

Cast your vote now for your favorite project at WSIS Prizes 2021 . VOTE AGRISELANA in the Agriculture category – e-Agriculture. DEADLINE: 31 MARCH 2021VOTE NOW. Link: https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/stocktaking/Prizes/2021ITUUNESCOUnited Nations Development Programme – UNDP our project has been nominated for the WSIS Prizes 2021 –congratulations! Out of 1,270 submitted projects, 360 (twenty in each of the […]

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GreenHouseGases

Agriculture’s significant climate impact need to be escalated and be given attention. Livestock is responsible for over 15% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN s’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The most destructive of those emissions is methane, a potent greenhouse gas. In the most up to date scientific way of […]

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Agriselana

http://agriselana.smartagriot.co.za

NO POVERTY
  • More than 700 million people, or 10% of the world population, still live in extreme poverty. Surviving on less than US$1.90 a day.
  • Having a job does not guarantee a decent living. In fact, 8 percent of employed workers and their families worldwide lived in extreme poverty in 2018.
  • Globally, there are 122 women aged 25 to 34 living in extreme poverty for every 100 men of the same age group.
  • The majority of people living on less than $1.90 a day live in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • High poverty rates are often found in small, fragile, and conflict-affected countries.
  • Poverty affects children disproportionately. One out of five children live in extreme poverty.
  • As of 2018, 55% of the world’s population has no access to social protection.
  • In 2018, only 41% of women giving birth received maternity cash benefits.
AgriFaka – Inputs

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DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

  • The global unemployment rate in 2017 was 5.6%, down from 6.4% in 2000.
  • Globally, 61% of all workers were engaged in informal employment in 2016. Excluding the agricultural sector, 51% of all workers fell into this employment category.
  • Men earn 12.5% more than women in 40 out of 45 countries with data.
  • The global gender pay gap stands at 23 percent globally and without decisive action, it will take another 68 years to achieve equal pay. Women’s labor force participation rate is 63 percent while that of men is 94 percent.
  • Despite their increasing presence in public life, women continue to do 2.6 times the unpaid care and domestic work that men do.
  • 470 million jobs are needed globally for new entrants to the labor market between 2016 and 2030.
AgriLab

http://agrilab.smartagriot.co.za

REDUCED INEQUALITIES

  • In 2016, over 64.4% of products exported by the least developed countries to world markets faced zero tariffs, an increase of 20% since 2010.
  • Evidence from developing countries shows that children in the poorest 20 percent of the population are still up to three times more likely to die before their fifth birthday than children in the richest quintiles.
  • Social protection has been significantly extended globally, yet persons with disabilities are up to five times more likely than average to incur catastrophic health expenditures.
  • Despite overall declines in maternal mortality in most developing countries, women in rural areas are still up to three times more likely to die while giving birth than women living in urban centers.
  • Up to 30 percent of income inequality is due to inequality within households, including between women and men. Women are also more likely than men to live below 50 percent of the median income
Agri Training

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GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS

  • Official development assistance stood at $146.6  billion in 2017. This represents a decrease of 0.6 percent in real terms over 2016.
  • 79 percent of imports from developing countries enter developed countries duty-free
  • The debt burden on developing countries remains stable at about 3 percent of export revenue
  • The number of Internet users in Africa almost doubled in the past four years
  • 30 percent of the world’s youth are digital natives, active online for at least five years
  • But more four billion people do not use the Internet, and 90 percent of them are from the developing world
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