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 hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers, credible large-scale planned adaptation programs will arrive too late. What these communities urgently need are low-cost, community-led solutions that are: Proven: backed by decades of field evidence Scalable: adaptable to diverse climates and soils Accessible: simple enough for farmers to implement with minimal inputs We also know that the Vetiver System (VS) meets these criteria and should be playing a much larger role than it currently is playing.… Read the rest “Newsletter (NL 2025-08) A Look at AI’s Potential for Vetiver Promotion, Welcome to TVNI’s New Technical Directors, A Large-scale Ecological Remediation Project in China, Recent News/Research”