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
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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
Moon Water
posted by Frank van Steenbergen February 4, 2013 In the nineteenth century, as white farmers moved up north in what … Continued
Use of rock dust in bio- fertilizers.
posted by Ruben Borge January 28, 2013 The Usambara Cooperative Union (UCU) in Tanzania is proud of their fair trade … Continued
The Power of Dew
posted by Frank van Steenbergen January 21, 2013 Even as surface water is overcommitted and even new groundwater resources get … Continued
Managing Mega Irrigation
posted by Frank van Steenbergen January 15, 2013 It is the world’s largest irrigation system, also called ‘the Indus … Continued
The Origin of Measuring Time
posted by Frank van Steenbergen December 31, 2012 Several sociologists such as Johan Goudsbloem have chronicled the fascinating story of time – … Continued
Good Neighbours
posted by Frank van Steenbergen December 24, 2012 The coming year will be the International Year of Water Cooperation. While there … Continued
Mekong: A River, its people and Big Dams
posted by Michael Victor, CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (m.victor@cgiar.org) December 18, 2012 Dam building is a complicated … Continued
Seeding Clouds, Harvesting Rain: Beware of the Hype
posted December 16, 2012 In public imagination, cloud-seeding has only recently crossed over from the realm of science fiction to … Continued
Dossiers
- Managing Desert Locusts
- Green Roads for Water
- Dryland Development
- Green Transformation
- Regenerative Agriculture
- Water and Development Partnership
- Preserving Assets - Operation and Maintenance in Delta’s
- Locally-Led Adaptation in Practice
- None left behind
- Stories from the Arab World
- Water in the newsroom
- The underground drought
- Is the world getting saltier?
- Mega Irrigation
- Water integrity
- Livelihoods from Floods
- Water Productivity
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