By Mialy Karen Rasolomanana and Sarobidy Rakotonarivo Most farmers near protected areas are isolated and lack access to affordable and safe credit. This limits their ability to invest in their farms, often constraining them to rely on low-input methods like...
By Eddy Josephson Randriamihary Fetra Sarobidy, As Anisha Jo says in her song « Tu rayonnes… Il y a des rêves qu’on abandonne et puis d’autres pas ». (« you shine… there are some dreams you give up and some dreams you don’t »). I come from a family of...
By Ravaka Ralandisoa, July is almost over, yet the memories of my South African adventure a month ago still resonate within me. This year has been full of first-time experiences for me. The more I learn, the more there is to discover. Traveling alone has...
By Mialy Karen Rasolomanana, Madagascar’s natural forests are being cleared for farming, and this increases forest loss and famer vulnerability to the negative impacts of climate change. The continued reliance on low-input farming practices, such as swidden...
By Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Last week (November 2023), my team and I had the pleasure of hosting a team from the African Academy of Sciences as part of their visit to monitor the ARISE pilot program. They saw first-hand degraded farmland soils in eastern Madagascar due...
By Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Soon after we completed our baseline data collection with ~ 1,300 household farmers in February 2024, my two PhD students Ravaka Ralandisoa and Fetra Randriamihary and I visited our study villages to discuss the nuts and bolts of the...
