One visit at harvest: help show where vetiver helps crops most What GVF is, and why now For forty years, vetiver hedges have been shown to hold soil, slow runoff and keep water in the field, and TVNI’s standards document…
In this issue Bangladesh Moves Toward National Adoption of Vetiver News From Around the Network The VGT Design Standards and Guides: Revision Completed OlaFarm, Vietnam: A Model Vetiver Service Company in the Making GVF: The Global Vetiver Farmer Program Moves…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]This might be the most important post I write this year, and I’m going to be direct about why: We have something potentially extraordinary in our hands—a Vetiver- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) partnership that research suggests could deliver 70-85%…
In this issue Mapping the Vetiver System Worldwide: A New Country-by-Country Evidence Table Vetiver México Champions Local Projects with ‘Vetiver for the Earth’ Competition Paseo Ambiental Orégano: 5 Years of Urban Regeneration and Resilience with Vetiver Network Advice A China-backed…
The Vetiver System in 2025 [ez-toc] 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…
[ez-toc] Can AI help accelerate the scaling and uptake of the Vetiver System? As we are all aware, communities across the Global South are experiencing the accelerating impacts of climate change — soil erosion, flooding, drought, and degraded farmland. For…
CARBON FARMING FOR FARMERS – MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES “Soil organic matter is the elixir of life” . … Rattan Lal “A healthy soil should contain 2-4% Soil Organic Matter (SOM) half of which is Soil Organic Carbon.” [ez-toc] The Potential of…
TVNI, as a knowledge based organization, has a primary goal of promoting the Vetiver System (VS) across several economic and natural resource sectors. It is possible to do this because of the unique character of Vetiver grass (Chrysopogon zizanioides) that…
The overall winner of the Vetiver Short Video competition (following a poll on TVNI facebook group) is Piet Sabbe of Ecuador. He was closely Marietta Landis of Panama followed by Marietta Landis of Panama, and Alois and Maria Kennerknech of…
The author of this post, Tho Ngo, works with an expanding group of Vietnamese farmers, who over the past few years have created much interest, both in Vietnam and globally, with regard to embedding the Vetiver System into Vietnamese farms,…