The GCP/INT/147/GEF Project, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and coordinated by FAO, has targeted Senegal’s Missirah to manage existing packaging and put in place a mechanism for sustainable management of empty packaging
Water & Irrigation
Critical to pair tree-planting drives with water-wise technologies: Dake Rechsand
In the backdrop of increasing tree-planting drives across the MENA region, Dake Rechsand, a company that specialises in sustainable solutions for water conservation and desert farming, has stressed the need for better adoption of water-efficient practices
Boosting commercialisation of water stress management solutions for field crops
Agri-biotech company Elicit Plant closed its financing round to accelerate the development of its water stress management solution in agriculture, with support from the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF)
Rivulis offers free crop monitoring and irrigation detection service to its customer growers
Rivulis, a global innovator micro-irrigation solutions innovator, has provided a free service to its customer growers for monitoring crops and detecting irrigation issues with satellite imagery
New UK support to tackle impact of droughts and flooding in East Africa
Almost a million people across East Africa will be supported by new UK funding in response to one of the worst droughts in the region for decades and unprecedented flooding