Category Archives: capacity building

India : Kitchen gardens and fruit tree afforestation to combat drought, desertification and poverty (SCAD)

Posted on June 29, 2008 by

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

id21RuralNews 28 (id21)

Posted on June 7, 2008 by

Read at : <id21RuralNewsAdmin@lyris.ids.ac.uk> id21RuralNews 28 …………….. CREDIT * Does formal microcredit in Bangladesh reach the right people? http://www.id21.org/rural/n3ca1g1.html * Training bank staff increases lending to poor people in India http://www.id21.org/rural/r5hj1g1.html HEALTH AND EDUCATION * Rural development professionals face HIV … Continue reading →

Posted in capacity building, drought, education, financial aspects, gender, microfinance - franchising, public health, Social dimensions, water management

Para-ecologists aim leave development ‘footprint’ in desert (Google / Namibian)

Posted on April 18, 2008 by

Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.namibian.com.na/2008/April/environment/08FA7C9496.html Para-ecologists aim leave development ‘footprint’ in desert ABSALOM SHIGWEDHA In an effort to help the Topnaar people to farm and to use natural resources in a sustainable manner, the Gobabeb Research and … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, biodiversity, capacity building, conservation, desert/desert gardening, Ecology - environment, ecosystems, Social dimensions, UNCBD, UNCCD, UNFCCC | Leave a comment

In my library : SCAD (Social Change and Development) – Indian NGO

Posted on March 16, 2008 by
Posted in capacity building, education, human life, NGO/CSO - Civil society, Pastoralism / animal husbandry, poverty, public health, rural development, SCAD, Social dimensions, standards of living, sustainable development | Leave a comment

In my library : “ENVIRONMENT matters at the World Bank”

Posted on March 16, 2008 by

Publication : Towards sustainable development : 2007 Annual Review “ENVIRONMENT matters at the World Bank” Click on the page to enlarge it

Posted in Agriculture, biodiversity, books/publications, capacity building, Climate / climate change, economy, ecosystems, financial aspects, Media - Press, public health, Social dimensions, sustainable development, Water, World Bank | Leave a comment

Algeria : Successful gardening by Saharawis in the Sahara desert (Willem)

Posted on March 10, 2008 by

Today, engineer Taleb BRAHIM, Saharawi coordinator of the UNICEF-project on “Construction of family gardens and school gardens in the Saharawis refugee camps” has sent interesting legends to some of his pictures taken in January-February 2008.  These pictures show the remarkable … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, capacity building, desert/desert gardening, Desertification, drip irrigation, drought, family gardens, fertilizer - nutrients, food / food security, Gardening / Horticulture, malnutrition, Pictures, public health, refugees, school gardens, Social dimensions, soil conditioning, Success stories - best practices, sustainable development, Technologies, UNICEF, vegetables, water management | Leave a comment

DARS 2006 : Bildung and Infrastruktur in den Flüchtlingslagern (Nord/Süd)

Posted on February 21, 2008 by

From a message sent by Gunter NATTKAMPER (GISAF) http://gisaf.sil.at/oasen-altlinks.html Read at : http://www.nordsued.at/start.asp?showmenu=yes&fr=&b=636&ID=8108 DARS : Democratic Arabic Republic Sahara Bildung & Infrastruktur in den Flüchtlingslagern Westsahara / Humanitäre & Flüchtlingshilfe (POL.8) 01.07.2003 – 31.12.2005 (1690-00/03) Seit über 25 Jahren leben … Continue reading →

Posted in capacity building, education, energy/bioenergy/biofuels, population, refugees, Social dimensions, UNHCR, Water, WFP | Leave a comment

Algeria launches Rural Renewal Programme (Google Alert / Magharebia)

Posted on February 2, 2008 by

Read at : Google Alert – Algeria http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2008/01/31/feature-02 Algeria launches Rural Renewal Programme 31/01/2008 Algeria’s Rural Renewal Programme has officially begun, with the training of the first group of regional experts tasked with implementing and overseeing the projects in the … Continue reading →

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Feeling happy when helping to “Heal the World” (Seabuckthorn / Willem)

Posted on January 22, 2008 by

Read at : http://www.seabuckthorn.net/index.php/?p=87. Heal the World: Desertification blog Jan 22nd, 2008 by Natalie Anne Lanoville As touched on in my recent post, Seabuckthorn holds back the desert on the windy plains of Asia, desertification is a grave problem throughout … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, capacity building, Desertification, drought, education, family gardens, food / food security, Gardening / Horticulture, hunger / famine, malnutrition, migration, refugees, school gardens, seeds, Success stories - best practices, sustainable development, Technologies, UNICEF | Leave a comment

ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION (P&CD / SP&C)

Posted on December 26, 2007 by

We announce the creation this year of the ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION (P&CD / SP&C) localized in Yaounde -Cameroon. Our missions lean on the resolutions of Marrakech, Morocco in June 2003 in the Framework of … Continue reading →

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