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December 2019 Vetiver Grass: Stabilizing Slopes, Rehabilitating Land & Water Quality Improvement Vetiver Grass has successfully been used to rehabilitate coral reefs, protect roads and prevent erosion and form terraces on sloping farmland in Vanuatu. IMAGE: Veticon Consulting In many degraded landscapes, the lack of soil nutrients pose a great challenge for food production. A study by the […]

December 2019 Are We Killing The Environment? Or Is It Killing Us? A study by the United Nations University has found that the economic cost of degraded agricultural land in the form of lost ecosystem services now amounts to up to US$10 trillion a year. IMAGE: Shutterstock Pacific island nations are among the most vulnerable […]