Farming just one kind of crop in a field at a time, and using a lot of chemicals, poses a risk to both people and nature. This simplified intensive agriculture often goes hand in hand with increased ...

Erratic rainfall and rising temperatures have hit farmers in Ghana’s semiarid Upper East region hard in recent years. Planting rows of trees and allowing goats and sheep to graze their fields is ...

A group of farmers in Ghana discussing ways to adapt farming to climate change. Courtesy AICCRA CGIAR Contract farming is when farmers grow crops to meet contracts they have signed with buyers. They ...

Climate change affects all spheres of life, particularly those aspects that depend on the environment. Farming communities are a case in point. Most often the effects of climate change on farmers are ...