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Volunteers Help Turkana's Nomads Grapple With Drought and Illness (Humanitarian News / Merlin-USA / Reuters / Alert News)

willem van cotthem wrote 3 weeks ago: Read at : Humanitarian News http://humanitariannews.org/blog/20091111/volunteers-help-turkanas-nomad … more →

Tags: Drought, food / food security, pastoralism / animal husbandry, Public Health, Research & Science

Kenya : The drilling for oil begins in two weeks (AfricaFiles)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 month ago: Read at : AfricaFiles Title: Drilling for oil begins Author: Mwaniki Wahome Category: Kenya Date: 10 … more →

Tags: energy/bioenergy/biofuels, Social dimensions

Small-scale farming and gardening to alleviate malnutrition, hunger and poverty (Willem Van Cotthem)

willem van cotthem wrote 3 months ago: As the representative of the Belgian experts on desertification, I had the privilege and honour of b … more →

Tags: allotment gardens, Community Gardens, cric, CST, desert/desert gardening, Desertification, Drought, family gardens, FAO

Why aid to Africa must stop (AfricaFiles / National Post)

willem van cotthem wrote 4 months ago: AfricaFiles Title:  Why aid to Africa must stop- Interview with Dambisa Moyo Adrian Humphreys Author … more →

Angola : NGOs sceptical of government's rural development plans (AfricaFiles)

willem van cotthem wrote 5 months ago: AfricaFiles Title:  NGOs sceptical of government’s rural development plans Author:  Louise Red … more →

Tags: Desertification, Rural Development, Sustainable Development

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

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: On all continents success stories in the combat of desertification have been booked in different fie … more →

Tags: afforestation, Agriculture, capacity building, Desertification, Drought, Experiments, food / food security, Fruits, Gardening & Horticulture

Ethiopia: UN Allocates $13 Million for Drought Victims (Google / allAfrica / Daily Monitor)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: Read at : Google Alert – drought http://allafrica.com/stories/200805300161.html Ethiopia: UN A … more →

Tags: financial aspects, food / food security, hunger / famine, Social dimensions, WFP

Cap-Net newsletter May 2008

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: Read at : Cap-Net <info@cap-net.org> [Cap-Net newsletter] May 2008 May 2008 South East Asia Pr … more →

Tags: Social dimensions, water, Water Management

American and Canadian interest in "Seeds for Life" project (Willem)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: In August 2007, I launched the new project “Seeds for Life” in Belgium (http://zadenvoor … more →

Tags: Agriculture, Desertification, Drought, family gardens, FAO, food / food security, Gardening & Horticulture, Gates Foundation, hunger / famine

DESERTIFICATION- A CHALLENGE FOR AFRICA (AfricaDCI)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: Read at : Africa Desert Control Initiatives <africadci@yahoo.com> Africa Desertification Contr … more →

Tags: Desertification, Drought, Social dimensions

A new supporter of Oxfam (Google / mlhuynh)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://mlhuynh.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/a-new-support … more →

Tags: Desertification, Oxfam, Social dimensions

Global warming, hunger and poverty (Willem)1 comment

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: MY COMMENT SENT TO THE VOA NEWS Dear Sirs, Today I have been reading your article http://www.voanews … more →

Tags: Agriculture, CGIAR, climate / climate change, desert/desert gardening, Desertification, Drought, Ecosystems, environmental refugees, family gardens

Microcredits or microloans of a soil conditioner (Google / Magharebia / Willem)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: Read at : Google Alert – Algeria http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/news/awi/ne … more →

Tags: Annual Income, desert/desert gardening, family gardens, fertilizer - nutrients, financial aspects, food / food security, Gardening & Horticulture, Gender, microfinance - franchising

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

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: … more →

Tags: capacity building, Education, human life, pastoralism / animal husbandry, poverty, Public Health, Rural Development, SCAD, Social dimensions

id21 : Rural News No 26, March 2008

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: *** id21RuralNews Number 26, March 2008 *** <id21RuralNewsAdmin@lyris.ids.ac.uk> * The growing … more →

Tags: Gender, Desertification, Rural Development, pastoralism / animal husbandry, Drought

Combating desert encroachment in Nigeria (Google / The Tide News)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.thetidenews.com/article.aspx?qrDate=02/01/ … more →

Tags: afforestation, déforestation, Desertification, Green Wall, MDG, UNEP

Ghana :Environmental Protection Agency (Google / Environmental Action Blog)1 comment

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://environmentalaction365.com/2008/02/environment … more →

Tags: Desertification, Ecology & Environment, Sustainable Development

Inner Mongolia Desertification (Google / Water for the Ages)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://waterfortheages.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/the-d … more →

Tags: Desertification, climate / climate change, land / land degradation, salinity, pastoralism / animal husbandry, water conservation / harvesting, grassland / rangeland

id21NRNews 43 (id21)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 year ago: Read at : id21 <id21NRnewsAdmin@lyris.ids.ac.uk> id21NRNews 43 the latest id21 Natural Resourc … more →

Tags: pastoralism / animal husbandry


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