Malawi: Eco-friendly kilns help fish curers cut losses (SciDev.net)
Closing his eyes as smoke from fish-smoking kilns fills the air, Issah Amin pokes firewood into one of seven ovens […]
Uganda: Turning food waste into profitable cricket farming (SciDev.net)
In Masaka district, Josephine Nabbanga carefully tends her colony of crickets, a high-protein snack that is gaining popularity across Uganda […]
Burkina Faso : Farmers use clean energy to farm year-round (IPS)
In the drylands of Burkina Faso, farming usually ends with the rainy season. But in Zoungou village, green onion fields […]
Benin: Building resilience through farming (Mongabay)
In the village of Ouèdo Ahouanssodja, about 40 kilometres from Cotonou, a group of young farmers is building a future […]
Kenya: Restoring Marereni’s mangroves (Mongabay)
In Marereni, a coastal village in Kenya’s Kilifi County, the tide is slowly turning for mangroves — and for the […]
DRC: Women fertilize their fields by planting acacia trees
It’s 10 a.m., and under the already scorching sun of Kananga, in the heart of Kasaï-Central, a woman in her […]
Ethiopia: Invasive lake weed turned to clean energy (SciDev.net)
For years, Fentie Wabi made a living fishing on Lake Tana in northern Ethiopia. But when water hyacinth—a fast-growing invasive […]
Mozambique: Mangroves bring hope and fish back to the coastline (IPS)
In northern Mozambique, along the shores of the Northern Mozambique Channel, communities are restoring mangroves and rebuilding their connection to […]
Burkina Faso: Farmers build rainwater collection basins to cope with droughts
This May, the dry season grips Zoundoun-Tampouo, a village located about 300 kilometers from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. But the first […]
Mali: Women restore their garden’s fertility with liquid fertilizer made from natural products
On a scorching Sunday afternoon, the sun blazes overhead as market garden plots unfold endlessly along the main road in […]