🐐 🐓 🐖 🍅 🧅 🌽URBANE Newsletter No.2
We have some news to share on everything we worked on for the past year! Check out our second newsletter published today! https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7285940448529948672
Agroecology: Toward a sustainable and territory-adapted agricultural revolution🍃🪱🍆
In Senegal, as in much of West Africa, a growing number of farmers are shifting their agricultural practices towards agroecology—a sustainable form of farming that combines agronomy and ecology, taking into account the balance between nature and the ecosystem services it provides.♻️ Agroecological techniques are specific to each territory, ecosystem, and type of production. Therefore,…
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Forest Gardens: Towards a sustainable future 🌳🥭
Edible forests are an innovative approach to agriculture that combines trees, fruits, and vegetables to enrich biodiversity. 🐦🦋 Why adopt forest gardens?-Combat poverty and desertification: They provide food, create habitats, and revitalize ecosystems. 🌱-Environmental protection: They are part of the Great Green Wall initiative to halt desert expansion and combat climate change. 🌿-Food self-sufficiency: These…
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How to turn very degraded landscapes into resilient food producing locations ?🤔🧐
The World Food Programme sustains the Great Green Wall of Africa project, whose aim is to create a barrier of trees, from Dakar to Djibouti, to stop the expansion of the Sahara and to create abundance and make people live here.🌳🌳🌳🌳 *1st step: Build water harvesting structures that maintain the water on site : half…
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Agroforestry: A solution to increase soil fertility and reduce erosion 🌳🐂🌾🐐🌴
It is a production system that integrates trees into crops, livestock, or both. Trees will bring numerous benefits to producers in terms of food security and the supply of fuel, building materials, and fodder. 💰 On an environmental level, the biomass trees produce will enrich the soil, and the canopy and roots will limit erosive…
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Making Your Own Organic Compost 🍃💩🍂
Organic fertilizers are a productive alternative, economically more profitable, and more environmentally friendly than chemical fertilizers. In addition to recycling and valorizing waste, they improve soil structure thus its ability to absorb and retain water and nutrients. 👍 Discover in this article all the steps for making and using solid and liquid compost! ⬇️https://3perf.fr/r/33L
Association + crop rotation = Increased yield and biodiversity, and reduced production costs 🤝🔄👍
Crop association involves planting multiple crops on the same plot, while crop rotation involves successively planting different crops on the same plot. Before getting started, it is important to carefully choose the plants to be used, plan the layout of the plots, determine the planting order, and consider maintenance procedures. Some may prefer associations, while…
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