The fight against climate change has just become much more urgent and critical. The latest report by the hundreds of scientists making up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released late last year, makes two things very stark and clear: 1st, if we don’t immediately ramp up efforts to decarbonize the entire global economy, and…
In rural villages across communities in Africa and Asia, families stay connected with distant loved ones, and benefit from reduced information and transaction costs, by using a mobile phone — but only during the day. That’s because the mobile cellular towers that serve many small remote communities usually rely either on diesel power, which is not…
The Cherangani people, an indigenous community in Kenya’s Rift Valley, have always called the Cherangani Hills Forest their ancestral home. Also known locally as the Sengwer, they were traditionally reliant on the forest for hunting and gathering, herbal medicines, honey, and sorghum and millet farming. Then the colonial government evicted them from the forest, only…
Annual row crops dominate agriculture around the world and have considerable negative environmental impacts, including significant greenhouse gas emissions. Transformative land‐use solutions are necessary to mitigate climate change and restore critical ecosystem services. Alley cropping (AC)—the integration of trees with crops—is an agroforestry practice that has been studied as a transformative, multifunctional land‐use solution. In…
Only 12 Years & 259 Days left to make #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #SDGs a reality. Peoples participation is key for #Awareness #Action #AssesImpact Useful link by @GlobalGoalsUN: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/
When Holly and Barry Mawby arrived on their farm in Esmond, North Dakota in 2011, they discovered windbreaks that had not been cared for in decades. They quickly realized that they were in jeopardy of losing what little protection they had from the brutal winds. Farmers are challenged by ever-increasing production demands under the uncertainties…