Detailed soil information for Africa now available
Zoom in on an African village, and see whether the soil is clayey or sandy, or how much nutrients or organic carbon it contains. This is now possible since ISRIC and partners have launched detailed freely accessible soil property maps for Africa. The maps, that can be explored in Google Earth, contain predictions of more […]
Scottish scientists to investigate links between soil degradation and poverty
The ALTER project (Alternative Carbon Investments in Ecosystems for Poverty Alleviation) is a 3 year international research initiative led by the James Hutton Institute with partners from Ethiopia and Uganda, including Hawassa University, the Ethiopian Government’s Southern Agricultural Research Institute and the Carbon Foundation for East Africa (Uganda) as well as CGIAR, International Water Management […]
