415 Kofi Boa - You can see soil health in a single season

About this episode

Dr. Kofi Boa discusses his journey in soil restoration and the importance of an African approach to regeneration.

African soils were once so alive, nobody called it regeneration, the land just gave. Dr. Kofi Boa, founder of the Center for No-Till Agriculture (CNTA) in Ghana, has spent decades proving they can give again. Boa traces his journey from a burned family farm to one of Africa's most compelling soil restoration demonstration models and makes the case for a distinctly African approach to regeneration: grounded in what fallow land has always shown us, driven by farmers who need a full granary befo...

People in this episode

Host: Koen van Seijen

Guest: Kofi Boa

Topics covered

• soil health
• regenerative agriculture
• African agriculture
• sustainability
• farming practices

Keywords

• soil health
• regeneration
• farming
• Africa
• sustainability
• agriculture
• no-till

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Center for No-Till Agriculture

Places: Ghana

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