In this issue The Hidden Benefits of Vetiver: When Farmers Discover What Science Had Already Proven Five Hidden Mechanisms Working Beneath the Surface Voices from the Field: Ethiopia’s Experience The Soil Temperature Crisis: How Vetiver Actually Cools Your Farm World…
The Vetiver System in 2025 The most outstanding aspect of the Vetiver System in 2025 were the people of the VS global community. WhatsApp groups in India and Latin America, the monthly Latin American Conversatorios, and numerous active Facebook groups…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] PROMOTING THE VETIVER SYSTEM Getting people to change long used practices, whether they be users or advisor/designers/policy makers, can take many years. You can teach hundreds of people how to use vetiver grass technology, of those hundreds fewer…
Note: due to a recent issue with the TVNI website, the May Newsletter was “lost” and will need to be redone. Until then, this is a placeholder only.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vetiver enhances soil moisture. Measuring soil moisture: Last week I received a couple of photos of soil moisture readings from a farm at Marsabit, (northern Kenya). There had been no significant rainfall since 2023, the most recent…
TOP MONTHLY TVNI WEBSITE DOWNLOAD: The MANUAL ON THE USE AND MANAGEMENT OF VETIVER GRASS (in Spanish) MANUAL SOBRE EL USO Y MANEJO DEL PASTO VETIVER (Chrysopogon zizanioides). This handbook/manual created by Julio Alegre Orihuela Ing. Agrónomo, MS, Ph.D in…
This article is the first in what will be an occasional series of articles on the Vetiver System for community-led, climate change adaptation. Subsequent articles will try and focus more on specific challenges faced by communities, and successful examples and…