Togo: Beekeepers organize to produce eco-friendly honey and protect the environment
In the early morning, Akowe Loukou puts on his white suit and calmly approaches his beehives lined up beneath cashew […]
Zambia: Farmers restoring soil with anthills
In Batoka community, Zambia, farmers can be seen walking to their fields carrying hoes, shovels, and sometimes sacks filled with […]
Kenya: Investing in irrigation to increase income from vegetables (IFC and SciDev.Net)
Fifty years ago, Kavuru village, in Kenya’s Embu County, was mostly dry grassland. Kinaro Waithaka purchased a 10-acre plot here […]
Côte d’Ivoire: Women turn agricultural waste into eco-friendly charcoal
It’s morning in Sokala-Sobara, Cote d’Ivoire, and Dongui Touré is sitting under a shelter in the village square. This is […]
DRC : Women farmers use velvet bean to improve soil fertility and boost yields
It is 8 a.m. in the village of Kanyuka, about 4 kilometres from the city of Kananga in the Democratic […]
Uganda : Women take the lead in reforestation to protect land (Mongabay)
In the dappled morning light of Kasese district, women gather around a small tree nursery at the edge of the […]
Ethiopia : Youth restore Ethiopia’s Abijata-Shalla National Park (Mongabay)
On the scorching hills above Ethiopia’s Abijata-Shalla National Park, young men and women work to heal the land. Shoveling soil, […]
Mali: A new liquid organic fertilizer gives farmers new hope
Saturday morning around 6 a.m., a cool breeze blows across the agricultural area of Baraouéli in the Ségou region of […]
Malawi: Farmers rebuild soil and livelihoods through agroecology (Mongabay)
Grena Banda and her husband, Daniel Mwafulirwa, spent years struggling to make ends meet on their small farm in Rumphi […]
Tanzania: Schoolgirls lead push for clean cooking at Dodoma Secondary School (IPS)
Inside the kitchen at Bunge Girls Secondary School in Dodoma, Mrs. Maria Joseph grips a wooden paddle and stirs a […]