Salty Potatoes
Posted by Frank van Steenbergen and Martin van Beusekom July 30, 2013 With a billion hectares of saline land and … Continued
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À la recherche des rongeurs dans la capitale animée de Madagascar
Les auteurs: Luwieke Bosma, Lucia Moreno Spiegelberg et Gauthier Dobigny. Bonjour à tous ! Je m'appelle Rova et j'habite à Ankasina, un quartier d'Antananarivo, la capitale de notre belle île de Madagascar ! On pourrait qualifier notre quartier de bidonville, mais nous l'appelons ici Ambany tanàna, ou « bas-quartier » en français. Ce nom a une histoire : autrefois, les rois et les reines, leur cour et les personnes riches et puissantes vivaient sur les hauteurs. Tandis que les travailleurs pauvres cultivaient le riz dans les parties basses et inondables du pays pour les nourrir. Aujourd'hui, la plupart des quartiers pauvres d'Antananarivo se trouvent dans ces basses terres qui sont encore inondées de nos jours, comme vous pouvez le voir sur les photos. La plupart des bas-quartiers sont des quartiers très vulnérables, souvent informels et habités principalement par des familles pauvres qui n'ont généralement qu'un accès très limité à l'emploi, à l'éducation ou à la santé. Ils sont très insalubres.… Continued
Previous posts
Out to 2040: Multiple Stress Release
Posted by Likimyelesh Nigussie and Frank van Steenbergen July 17, 2013 Feeding the growing population is one of the biggest … Continued
In praise of mechanization
Posted by Frank van Steenbergen July 04, 2013 This may not be the first thing that comes to mind, but … Continued
Turnaround City
Posted by Frank van Steenbergen July 04, 2013 It had the distinction of being ‘the worlds most polluted city’ ten … Continued
The Men in the Boat
Posted by Frank va Steenbergen and Martin van Beusekom June 26, 2013 This is a man in a boat on … Continued
Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting in Arid Urban Areas: The Case of Sana’a, Yemen
Posted by Martin van Beusekom and Linda Navis June 18, 2013 Water shortage is key problem for the citizens … Continued
Turning Farm Waste into Food: The Hi-tech and the Low-tech
Posted by Ruben Borge, MetaMeta Circular Economy / Rockin SoilsJune 03, 2013 Famers knowing how to make compost is key … Continued
Farmer-smart ICT?
Posted by Likimyelesh Nigussie June 03, 2013 One of the big challenges in achieving global food security is ‘closing the … Continued
One house, one buffer
Posted by Francesco Sambalino May 23, 2013 Djerba from the plane appears as a vast and flat island dotted with … Continued
To start to exist
posted by Allah Baksh and Frank van Steenbergen May 10, 2013 Postcard from Tharparkar, the desert on the border of Pakistan … Continued
Open Letter to UNICEF
posted by Frank van Steenbergen April 29, 2013 If you would head an organization whose mandate is to protect of the … Continued
Good Grab, Bad Grab
posted by Frank van Steenbergen April 22, 2013 With the large and sometimes overexposed attention for land grabbing in Africa, good … Continued
Pocket paradises
posted by Frank van Steenbergen April 01, 2013 Cities grow and there is nothing stopping them. In 2050 not half but … Continued
The Coming Plastic Revolution
posted by Frank van Steenbergen March 04, 2013 Is this the next revolution in agriculture and water management: plastic mulch? In … Continued
Towards a Lighter Burden: A Small Step
March 09, 2013 Square, unwieldy and (often) yellow, jerry cans are a common sight in rural areas across the world. … Continued
Freak Climate Changes
posted by Frank van Steenbergen March 04, 2013 While we ponder on long term climate change, and on what the middle … Continued
On Water User Associations (WUAs)
{jcomments on}posted by Frank van Steenbergen, courtesy Rajeshwar Mishra February 25, 2013 They were sometimes created by the stroke of a … Continued
Cactus, the Arid Miracle
posted by Ahmed Albakri, Bothinah Albakri, Sharafuddin A. Saleh and Frank van Steenbergen February 18, 2013 Cactus is a miracle plant. … Continued
Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
Helping small farmers protect their land by William Critchley, VU University. Amsterdam, The Netherlands Failed soil conservation schemes, based on ‘command … Continued
The World We Want: Governing & Managing Water Resources for Sustainable Development
posted by Joakim Harlin, UNDP February 11, 2013 The pressures on water resources that more and more countries are experiencing … Continued