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Category Archives: women/youth and desertification
REACH-ing for good projects to REALLY tackle child hunger and malnutrition (Willem Van Cotthem)
Let us read attentively some paragraphs (or parts thereof) of the former posting on this blog (UN News) : RIO+20: UN AGENCIES SAY TACKLING CHILD HUNGER CRUCIAL TO ACHIEVING ‘THE FUTURE WE WANT’ (June 28, 2012) United Nations agencies today … Continue reading
Posted in container/bottle gardening, Desertification, drought, family farming, family gardens, FAO, food / food security, hunger / famine, kitchen garden, malnutrition, nutrition, sack gardening, small-scale farming, small-space gardening, urban gardening, vegetables, vertical farming, vertical gardening, WFP, women/youth and desertification
GHANA: Volta Foundation to harness youth for faster development (NGO News Africa / Willem Van Cotthem)
Read at : NGO News Africa GHANA: Volta Foundation to harness youth for faster development Ho, Feb 18, GNA – The Volta Foundation, a development advocacy NGO, is to harness the energies of the youth to accelerate the economic growth … Continue reading
No Green Wall without small-scale gardens for women (Willem Van Cotthem)
My attention was caught by some statements in Mrs. Priscilla ACHAKPA’s interview, referred to a former posting on my desertification blog: Nigeria: WEP Wants Green Wall Sahara Programme (http://allafrica.com/stories/201002180504.html) This Executive Director of the Women Environment Programme (WEP) urged the … Continue reading
Posted in afforestation, Agriculture, Climate / climate change, desert/desert gardening, Desertification, drought, drylands, family farming, food / food security, Food for Work, gender, Great Green Wall (GGW), hunger / famine, nurseries, reforestation, Social dimensions, UNCCD, women/youth and desertification
Give women a chance to slash global hunger with small-scale gardening (Willem Van Cotthem)
Have you read the former posting on this blog ? SMALLHOLDERS, RURAL PRODUCERS KEY TO SLASHING GLOBAL HUNGER AND POVERTY – BAN (UNNews) Please pay attention to the following parts of Mr. BAN KI-MOON’s statement : (1) Smallholders and rural … Continue reading
If only every Kenyan school had a school garden ? (Willem)
Did you read the former posting on this blog : Kenya: Drought Forcing Children to Quit School ? I did it very attentively and one important question came up : “What if every Kenyan school had a school garden ?”. … Continue reading
School Feeding in different countries (Google / Friends of WFP)
Read at : http://friendsofwfp.typepad.com/friends/2008/10/index.html October 2008 Sunday, October 26, 2008 School Feeding in Rwanda: An Interview with Guy Adoua of the United Nations World Food Programme Rwanda is on the long road to recovery from the 1994 genocide that devastated … Continue reading
India : Kitchen gardens and fruit tree afforestation to combat drought, desertification and poverty (SCAD)
On all continents success stories in the combat of desertification have been booked in different fields of soil management and conditioning, water conservation, harvesting and management, plant production in agriculture and horticulture, afforestation and reforestation. Mitigation of drought, combat of … Continue reading
Posted in afforestation, Agriculture, capacity building, Desertification, drought, food / food security, fruits, Gardening / Horticulture, NGO/CSO - Civil society, Pictures, poverty, reforestation, SCAD, Social dimensions, soil conditioning, sustainable agriculture, sustainable development, Technologies, TerraCottem, UNCCD, vegetables, Water, water management, women/youth and desertification
Combating desertification with homestead gardening (Willem)
Today, we have read with great interest an article published by the Bangladesh’s Independent News Source THE NEW NATION : http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/06/23/news0218.htm Homestead gardening becoming popular in Barind area by BSS, Rajshah Let us have a quick look at some of … Continue reading
Ethiopia : Thousands of children threatened by drought (Google / CCTV)
Read at : Google Alert – drought http://www.cctv.com/english/20080602/101433.shtml Thousands of children threatened by drought in Ethiopia WATCH VIDEO Source: CCTV.com | 06-02-2008 Famine in southern Ethiopia is threatening the lives of thousands of children, as the lack of rain has … Continue reading
The “World Food Crops Seedbank” (WFCS) : combating malnutrition and hunger (Willem / Susan Ji Young Park)
With some Belgian friends, I am involved in the creation of the “World Food Crops Seedbank” (WFCS). Wikipedia tells us that “a seedbank stores seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves elsewhere are destroyed. It is a … Continue reading
Posted in container/bottle gardening, desert/desert gardening, Desertification, drought, environmental refugees, family gardens, food / food security, fruits, Gardening / Horticulture, hunger / famine, malnutrition, poverty, public health, recycling, refugees, school gardens, seeds, Social dimensions, sustainable development, UNICEF, vegetables, WFP, women/youth and desertification
