The WaterBlog

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

Homestead poultry keeping for a vibrant rural economy

by Getanew Tesfaw Livestock and poultry are essential to strengthen the rural economies as they are serving as supplemental income … Continued

Now available: Key Results and Recommendations of the FAO’s Agroecology Dialogue Series

The Agroecology Dialogue Series is an initiative of FAO and the Biovision Foundation in support of the Coalition for food systems transformation through Agroecology … Continued

Green Roads for Water (GR4W)- a first outlook in Madhya Pradesh, India

By Saroj Yakami (MetaMeta Research), Anurudh Kumar Shastri (PRADAN), Khusbu Bisen (PRADAN), Nitesh Kumar (PRADAN), Supriya Sharma (PRADAN), & Luwieke … Continued

Agroforestry in Amhara, Ethiopia

By Bantamlak Wondmnow Agroforestry is a new name for a set of long-standing practices. Farmers in Amhara have immense traditional … Continued

Sustainable landscape rehabilitation: The establishment of Watershed User’s Cooperatives

By Bantamlak Wondmnow & Femke van Woesik In Ethiopia there are many succesful stories of rehabilitated watersheds through large scale … Continued

Postcard from Central Rift, Kenya (part 2). Shade but no grass.

By Ishani Sonak The rangeland in South of Kenya has been historically dominated by a wide variety of grass species. … Continued

Postcard from Central Rift, Kenya (part 1). End of the tether: Four years of drought

By Ishani Sonak Postcard from Central Rift Valley, Kenya. This is what four years of utter drought look like. … Continued

Multipurpose plantation – making productive use of watershed rehabilitation in Amhara, Ethiopia

By Bantamlak Wondmnow In Amhara, yearly successful watershed rehabilitation campaigns are carried out through the government’s mass mobilization of local … Continued

Scaling through horizontal learning: Liquid Biofertilizer take up in Oromia, Ethiopia

By Guta Eshetu Horizontal learning is peer-to-peer learning. It is how farmers learn, share new information and good practices with … Continued

Our minds are with the earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria

On Monday February 6, a strong earthquake struck the southern and central regions in Turkey, and western Syria. The damage … Continued

Bio-resource centers as a tool to tackle the fertilizers crisis – The state of regenerative agriculture in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand

By Marina Vara Gutiérrez (Aidenvironment) and Rubén Borges Robles (Rockinsoils) India has … Continued

The multipurpose biofertilizer

By Bella Arlman Biofertilizer is a proven effective way to increase crop yield either as an alternative to the expensive … Continued

Making farming easier: introducing new farm tools in rural Ethiopia

By Getanew Tesfaw Farming is a back breaking and hard job. Luckily, using the right tools can make it a … Continued

Regenerative home garden designs

By Marina Vara Gutierrez Well-designed rainfed home gardens can increase crop productivity and increase biodiversity. Sustainably doing this requires a … Continued

Indigenous pasture production for regeneration of drylands and increased livestock production – A story from the drylands of Kenya to the drylands of India

Authors: Luwieke Bosma (MetaMeta), Ashutosh Mishra (PRADAN) and Ishan Agarwal (FES). In the blog on livestock production in India we … Continued