The original version of this article, by Eugenie Maiga, appeared on the Wilson Center’s Africa Up Close blog. With the 2011 and 2012 food crises in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel, calls for urgent action and sustainable solutions to food insecurity in Africa have intensified. While many factors, like rising commodity prices, have been contributing factors, land degradation … Continue reading Can Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation Techniques Help Solve Africa’s Food Crisis?