Stories tagged: deforestation

DRC: How a group of women are making money by replacing charcoal for cooking (Global Press Journal)

admin | March 15, 2021

Most families in northern DRC’s Tshopo province, can’t afford electricity to cook. Instead, they rely on locally-produced wood charcoal to […]

Daniela Loberline | May 25, 2020

It’s 9 a.m. in Ampahazony, a town about 20 kilometres from Mahajanga in the North West region of Madagascar. Along […]

Alegnesy Bies | April 27, 2020

It’s 6 a.m. and Aliou Mangane is already in the Guimara forest on his mission to confront illegal loggers. He […]

admin | April 27, 2020

One of this week’s Farmer stories from Senegal highlights local communities’ efforts to combat deforestation. Our Script of the week […]

Harouna Sana | September 2, 2019

In the Sissili and Ziro provinces of central west Burkina Faso, farmers know the value of the shea tree, known […]

Jean de Dieu Ininahazwe | April 28, 2019

In eastern Burundi, nurseries of forest tree species have been planted to reforest watersheds and bare hills in the region, […]

admin | March 24, 2019

In the early morning on school holidays and weekends, Eric Ndung’u heads off to herd his family’s goats in the […]

admin | February 4, 2019

Yacouba Sawadogo has been farming for 40 years, but he still has energy in his body and his eyes. Mr. […]

Sawa Pius | January 20, 2019

It’s early in the morning, but Benson Buiya and several other farmers are already waiting at the gate of the […]

admin | December 17, 2018

In the scorching Upper East Region of Ghana, the dry seasons are long and, for kilometres, there is nothing but […]