Travel abroad « Desertification

Posted by: willem van cotthem | December 30, 2006

Travel abroad

Dear Friends,

As I was traveling abroad from the end of november until today, I didn’t get an opportunity of posting new messages. I will now have the pleasure of coming back to you with some interesting stories concerning combating desertification and alleviating poverty.

Willem

Posted in Uncategorized

Leave a response

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Categories

Agriculture
- aquaculture
- BSF
- CGIAR
- FAO
- fertilizer - nutrients
- food / food security
  - food crisis
  - hunger / famine
  - malnutrition
  - street food
  - WFP
- GMO
- IAASTD
- ICARDA
- ICRISAT
- IFA
- IFAD
- IFPRI
- intercropping
- locusts
- manure
- no-till
- organic farming
- overfarming
- permaculture
- pesticides / herbicides
- plant diseases
- rainfed agriculture
- sustainable agriculture
- urban agriculture/farming
- USDA
Blogroll
Climate / climate change
- carbon sink / trading
  - CDM
- energy/bioenergy/biofuels
  - solar energy
  - wind farms
- global warming
- greenhouse gasses
- IPCC
- UNFCCC
- WMO
Desertification
- aerial sowing
- CILSS
- desert greenhouse
- desert/desert gardening
- Desertnet
- drought
- Green Wall
- land / land degradation
- OSS
- TerrAfrica
- traditional knowledge
- UNCCD
- urban desertification
- women/youth and desertification
- World Day Desertification
Ecology - environment
- biodiversity
- conservation
- ecosystems
- energy
  - biofuel
  - fuelwood
- environmental refugees
- ESA
- GEF
- Greenpeace
- IUCN
- MEA
- natural resources
- pollution
- recycling
- UNCBD
- UNEP
- WWF
Editorial
Forestry
- afforestation
- agroforestry
- deforestation
- firewood / charcoal
- forest dwellers
- forest fires
- ICRAF
- illegal logging
- mycorrhizae
- neem
- nurseries
- reforestation
- secondary forest
- UNFF
Gardening / Horticulture
- Garden tools / materials
  - compost
  - earthbox
  - fruits
  - herbs
  - lawn
  - opuntia
  - potting soil
  - root crops
  - seeds
  - trees
  - tyres
  - vegetables
- garden types
- gardening types
- plant care
Gates Foundation
MDG
Media - Press
- books/publications
NGOs - Civil society
- SCAD
Pastoralism / animal husbandry
- grassland / rangeland
- grazing / overgrazing
- overfishing
- predators
Pictures
Quotes
Research / science
- experiments
Social dimensions
- agflation
- AGRA
- conflicts
- CSD
- ECHO
- ECOWAS
- EU
- financial aspects
  - ADB
  - annual income
  - economy
  - employment
  - insurance
  - microfinance - franchising
  - poverty
  - World Bank
- gender
- globalization
- human life
  - capacity building
  - cities / urbanisation
  - ecotourism
  - education
  - indigenous people
  - jobs
  - migration
  - population
  - public health
- ICT
- land tenure
- LDCs
- local (indigenous) knowledge
- NEPAD
- OECD
- OXFAM
- public goods
- Rotary International
- rural development
- SADC
- SIDS
- standards of living
- sustainable development
- UNDP
- UNESCO
- UNHCR
  - refugees
- UNICEF
- WHO
Soil
- agrichar/biochar/terra preta
- contour bunding
- erosion
- mulching
- salinity
  - desalinisation
  - seawater intrusion
- sand fixation
- sand storms
- soil conditioning
  - TerraCottem
Success stories - best practices
Technologies
- biotechnology
- GIS / remote sensing
- GM crops
- satellites
Uncategorized
Water
- aspirin water
- boreholes / wells
  - pumps
- dams / lakes / reservoirs / tanks
- ditches/swales
- drainage
- drinking water
- floods
- fresh water
- hydrology
- irrigation
  - drip irrigation
- rain
  - cloud seeding
- sanitation
- water conservation / harvesting
- water management
World Day

Desertification

Travel abroad

Leave a response

Categories

Blog Stats

Archives

Top Posts

Flickr Photos

Category Cloud

Meta

Blogroll

My blog is a member of: