Igunga ecovillage: a success story from the water scarcity trenches
Posted by Eduardo Tovar López March 20, 2018 Igunga is one of the driest districts in Tanzania. Water is very scarce, … Continued
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Glaciers in Tajikistan: Pulling the Climate Change Trigger
Glaciers in Tajikistan: Pulling the Climate Change Trigger Posted by Frank van Steenbergen and Jonathan Demenge November 13, 2017 With … Continued
‘Moon water harvesting’ for volcanic wines in Lanzarote
by Cecilia Borgia October 03, 2017 This story is about the ingenuity of women and men farmers in Lanzarote island … Continued
Egypt: The Case for Pressurized Fertilised Irrigation through Elevated Storage Tanks
Posted by Kassem Mourad July 27, 2016 Image Courtesy: MontyofEgypt – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5203022 It seems to … Continued
Reading the Rain
Posted by Kebede Manjur Gebru, Frank van Steenbergen, and Eyasu Yazew Hagos February 29, 2016 There is so much wisdom that goes … Continued
Women business innovators
Posted by Nardos Masresha December 8, 2015 As women are a central strategy of the Ethiopia Climate Innovation Center (ECIC), … Continued
Maladaptation in Bangladesh
Posted by Frank van Steenbergen October 14, 2015 A big debate is going on in Bangladesh around ‘maladaptation.’ A paper[1] … Continued
Groundwater is divine
Posted by Frank van Steenbergen September 10, 2015 (Postcard from Zagoria in Greece from the double spring of Avragonia) … Continued
It is the microclimate! You didn’t see?
By Frank van Steenbergen & Abraham Mehari Haile May 28, 2015 They go largely unobserved and unattended. In view of … Continued
Weeping Stones, Filling Wells
By Francesco Sambalino and Cecilia Borgia April 14, 2015 Figure 1: Steamwells in the Afar settlement of Li Ado, near … Continued
Breaking barriers: People with Disabilities Managing Farm Water
Among other basic needs, access to safe drinking water and sanitation together are vital for people to achieve their full … Continued
Azores: a hundred years of greenhouse water harvesting
Posted by Frank van Steenbergen, August 1, 2014 To survive and thrive small islands have to make use of their … Continued