Landscapes and Local Climates

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

A small micro-climate marvel

By Frank van Steenbergen Postcard from KNSM-Eiland on a cold winter day. While the morning frost freeze-dries the moisture in the … Continued

3 Pillars for Microclimate Management

By Femke van Woesik (MetaMeta), Marijn van der Meer (MetaMeta), Shubham Jain (MetaMeta), and Niels Lenderink (Rain) Microclimates are the … Continued

Examples of management of the commons by communities in rural India

By Shubham Jain (MetaMeta), Marijn van der Meer (MetaMeta), & Femke van Woesik (MetaMeta) Common pool resources, popularly known as … Continued

Ponds as an asset for agriculture: how to keep them full

Marijn van der Meer (MetaMeta), Femke van Woesik (MetaMeta), Nitesh Dhiman (PRADAN), Shubham Jain (MetaMeta), Lalit Kumar Nirmalkar (PRADAN), Laxmi … Continued

What to do when “the sun burns the earth”?

Drought and dry season grazing management strategies of Maasai herders By Esmee Mulder, MetaMeta The key to rangeland sustainability? Collaborate … Continued

Cool it: how to change the local climate with hundreds of soil bunds

By Femke van Woesik (MetaMeta), Jackie Kemboi (Justdiggit), and Samwel Jakinda (Justdiggit). The monitoring setup was developed and implemented by … Continued

The use of cactus for wind and sun protection in Malta

Jean Marc Pace The Prickly-Pear Cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica) is a ubiquitous sight on the arid Mediterranean Islands of Malta. It … Continued

Landscape Management Plus: Improving the local climate of the Ethiopian Gubalafto Watersheds

Bantamlak Wondmnow, Jean Marc Pace, Getachew Engdayehu, Dr. Dessie Assefa, Frank van Steenbergen & Femke van Woesik Landscape restoration activities … Continued

Snow, no snow: microclimates revealed

by Femke van Woesik and Frank van Steenbergen This sight is probably quite familiar for people living in an area … Continued

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