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The agricultural relationship between Singapore and Malaysia is a study in profound, fragile interdependence. Singapore's 95% reliance on food imports creates a structural vulnerability that was starkly exposed by the 2022 Malaysian chicken export ban, which sent immediate shocks through the city-state's supply chains and consumer pricing.

This event underscored a critical reality: regional food systems are not merely logistical challenges but are deeply susceptible to the internal political and ecological shifts of neighbouring states. This brief evaluates the contrasting philosophical and practical approaches to food resilience in both nations, moving beyond surface-level logistics to examine the deeper frameworks of “security” versus “sovereignty.” By dissecting these divergent priorities, we can better understand how the tension between consumer demand and producer survival dictates the future of regional stability.

GIZ PROSol

GIZ PROSol

GIZ PROSol

GIZ PROSol

Protection et réhabilitation des sols (ProSol)

Plaquette sur la préparation de abobo avec mucuna

GIZ PROSol

Définitions, production, effets, résultats des travaux de recherche

Projet Protection et Réhabilitation des Sols pour améliorer la Sécurité Alimentaire (ProSOL/GIZ)

PROSol - Stratégie de mise en œuvre, résultats et perspectives

PROSol - 2019

PROSol - Les différentes catégories de mesures de Gestion Durable des Terres et d’Adaptation au Changement Climatique (GDT/ACC)

ProSOL - Résultats de l’étude de fertilité des sols menée dans 4 départements au Bénin en 2016

ProSOL - Mesures de Gestion Durable des Terres (GDT) et d’Adaptation au Changement Climatique (ACC) - 2018

“Improving Soil Fertility Through the Use of Green Manure Cover Crops” forms part of the suite of resources developed through GIZ’s ProSoil and SOILutions programmes, sharing practical approaches to improving soil fertility and supporting more sustainable soil and land management.

“Collaborating Research Benefitting Small Scale Farmers” forms part of the suite of resources developed through GIZ’s ProSoil and SOILutions programmes, sharing knowledge and practical approaches to support small-scale farmers and strengthen sustainable land and soil management.

Through GIZ’s ProSoil and SOILutions programmes in Kenya, women farmers are putting Mucuna pruriens to work as part of more sustainable approaches to farming and soil management. Used as a cover crop and green manure, Mucuna pruriens can help improve soil fertility while supporting more resilient farming systems. This video explores how practical soil health solutions can go beyond restoring the land — strengthening women’s knowledge, participation and opportunities within their farming communities.

A Practical Training Manual for Extension Officers in Kakamega County.

This document contains three sets of toolboxes for the training and follow-up of groups and community resource persons under the ProSoil III project in 2021. The tools are designed to accompany the “Introductory Training for ProSoil community groups” and the “Training of CRPs 2021 Manual”.

A Practical Training Manual for Extension Officers in Bungoma County.

What is Mucuna Pruriens

• Issues and opportunities in Mucuna farming

• Issues and opportunities in Mucuna processing

• Conclusions and recommendations

This model compares zero tillage and conventional tillage farming.

The main purpose of this manual is to serve as a comprehensive training and reference tool for facilitators, CRPs, and CBO technical officers supporting farmer groups under the ProSoil Project.

Under the ProSoil Project, Community Resource Persons (CRPs) were trained to enhance their technical and business capacities in agripreneurship, group management, VSLA operations, record keeping, and governance. Each group nominated two CRP representatives who participated in the intensive training with the expectation that they would cascade knowledge to their peers and strengthen the performance of their groups.

Soil protection and rehabilitation project (prosoil) is a project under WHH in collaboration with GIZ which aims at managing soils for sustainable production and hence increased food productivity.

Despite growing interest in sustainable rangeland management and restoration, there is currently no widely accepted framework for monitoring ecological outcomes across rangeland systems. Existing approaches vary considerably in the indicators used, methods applied, and scales of assessment, making it difficult to compare results, aggregate data, or demonstrate progress consistently across landscapes and regions. These challenges are particularly apparent in rangelands, where high spatial and temporal variability in ecological conditions, climatic fluctuations, and diverse management systems can complicate the interpretation of ecological change. While rangeland resilience also includes important social, cultural and economic dimensions, a key gap currently lies in the measurement of biophysical changes across rangeland landscapes.

This framework responds to that need by defining a harmonised set of indicators of rangeland health and associated methodological principles that enable comparability across regions while allowing flexibility for adaptation to local contexts.

Rangelands cover more than half the planet’s land surface and sustain the livelihoods, either directly or indirectly, of billions of people. Yet, an estimated 40–50% of these systems show signs of degradation, manifesting as soil erosion, woody encroachment, and declining forage productivity, placing global food security, climate goals, and local livelihoods at risk. While several monitoring frameworks and tools to measure rangeland condition exist, most remain fragmented, narrow in scope, and difficult to compare across projects, sectors, or regions. A credible, global monitoring framework is needed to guide investment, anchor emerging livestock value-chain standards, and track progress toward international restoration targets.

This review synthesizes rangeland monitoring insights from four key source domains: (i) twelve widely used field-based frameworks, (ii) fourteen sustainability standards with mandated landscape monitoring components, (iii) five Earthobservation (EO) platforms that report on rangeland indicators; and (iv) two citizen science mobile applications. We integrate these findings with a review of 62 peer-reviewed studies, along with the insights and recommendations from a multi-stakeholder consultation workshop convened in Nairobi in October 2024.

Up to 40% of the world’s land is degraded, affecting more than 3.2 billion people and increasingly putting the businesses and economies that depend on healthy land at risk. These pressures are driven by unsustainable land use and economic incentives that prioritize short-term production over long-term soil health, compounded by climate change.

Healthy soil is not only an environmental or agricultural imperative; it is a strategic economic asset. Yet soil remains largely invisible in how governments, businesses and investors assess value and manage risk.

This paper makes the business case for action: soil dependency is business dependency. Healthy soils support productivity, resilience and long-term value, while degraded soils create growing risks. Recognizing and investing in soil health is both urgent and achievable.

Welthungerhilfe organized and successfully implemented a capacity strengthening initiative targeting thirty (30) Community Resource Persons (CRPs) between 25th July to 1st July 2025.

The activity combined a one-day refresher training on digital data collection with a five-day on-the-job field engagement exercise, designed to reinforce the CRPs’ technical competencies, practical field skills, and their ability to deliver consistent extension services within their communities.