Promoting soil science education to combat erosion and improve agricultural yields

Country

Malawi

Student

Deirdre Griffin, University of California, Davis

Description

This Trellis Fund "technical project" is designed to provide soil science workshops and simple soil testing to farmers in the Khundi village of Malawi.

Deirdre Griffin, UC Davis graduate student, shared her experience working with the Kusamala Institute of Agriculture and Ecology in Malawi with a local newspaper reporter: Students share Trellis stories in Davis Enterprise.