The government of Zimbabwe is working to train nearly 2 million farmers in conservation agriculture (CA) and 1 million farmers have already been trained in the country. The No-Till Passport series is brought to you by Martin Industries.

With the passing of National Ag Day last week, we celebrate what’s been done to improve the sustainability of farming operations, but look ahead to what we must do to preserve and protect food security for future generations.

Some 500 scientists, academic experts, farmers and government officials from more than 100 countries convened the Global Symposium on Soil Erosion last week. Find out what they said and what really needs to happen to feed the world.

With an increasing global population, a shrinking agricultural land base, climate change and extreme weather events, the nations of the world are focusing their collective attention to the primary resource essential to food production — the soil.