By Tony Rinaudo “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” “I don’t much care where –” “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Unlike Lewis Carroll’s Alice, most of us…
By Alan Channer There is a Kenyan saying that ‘he who goes to Mombasa may never return’, for the Indian Ocean port has many charms and opportunities. Today the city’s sprawling slums are witness to a more general challenge: rural-urban migration. Much of this is due to environmental degradation and the effects of climate change…
By Alan Channer Kelechi Eleanya is passionate about trees and the environment. As President of the ‘Forestry Students Association’ (aka the ‘Tree Club’) at the University of Ibadan in the 1990s, he was in the vanguard of promoting the value of trees in the environment among his peers. ‘Back then,’ Eleanya recalls, ‘forestry was not…
by Alan Channer ‘Regreening Africa’ is a multi-country project, funded by the European Union, with the goal of scaling up evergreen agriculture to 500,000 farm households, over an area of over one million hectares. Patrick Worms, Senior Science Policy Advisor at the World Agroforestry Centre, worked on the conception of the project. He emphasises that…
Felix Finkbeiner was just nine years old when he had an idea to plant 1 million trees in every country on earth. The German primary school student was inspired by the late Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement with the mission to plant 30 million trees across Africa. But…
Felix Finkbeiner is a young man in a hurry to get the world to plant trees. The 19-year-old from a small Bavarian village near Munich, now studying at a university in London, has founded a global youth movement, Plant For The Planet, which has spearheaded the planting of over 15 billion saplings, signed up 75,000…