{"id":6493,"date":"2019-11-11T10:12:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T07:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6493"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","slug":"scientists-push-for-climate-friendly-farming-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/11\/scientists-push-for-climate-friendly-farming-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Push For Climate-Friendly Farming Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By The\nEast African<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Africa\nmust adopt climate-friendly farming methods to revamp its struggling\nagriculture and feed its 1.2 billion people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists\nand representatives from the civil society told delegates attending a three-day\nconference in Addis Ababa this past week that conventional agriculture is no\nlonger sustainable as it has ruined the environment and failed to produce\nenough food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe\nfastest and cheapest way of reversing climate change is through the soil and\nthe strategy is agroecology,\u201d said Dr Million Belay, the coordinator of the\nAlliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agroecology\nstresses the relationship between plants, animals, humans and the environment\nwithin the agricultural system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It uses cultivation techniques and breeding programmes that do not rely on chemical fertilisers, pesticides or artificial genetic modifications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/scienceandhealth\/Scientists-push-for-climate-friendly-farming-methods\/3073694-5343170-9ms7n9\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The East African Africa must adopt climate-friendly farming methods to revamp its struggling agriculture and feed its 1.2 billion people. Scientists and representatives from the civil society told delegates&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}