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
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Portraits of Bangladesh, Satkhira community members (UTTARAN)
This blog is part of a dossier on locally-led adaptation, featuring insights and lessons from the Reversing the Flow (RtF) program. RtF empowers communities in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sudan to build climate resilience through direct funding and a community-driven, landscape approach. Meet these 4 individuals from UTTARANs LANDWATER project area. They present their challenges, their aspirations and what this RtF project means to them. These stories reflect the hardships experienced by the affected individuals and families. At the same time, UTTARAN takes pride in standing by them and providing much-needed assistance through the LANDWATER initiative. It is heartening to see the positive impact of our efforts, even in the face of such adversity, as we continue working towards sustainable solutions for these communities. Shona Van’s Struggle for Survival in Isolation and Adversity Landscape Name: Jugipota, Satkhira Sadar Shona Van, a 50-year-old widow, has spent the past 15 years navigating a life of relentless hardship and resilience. Her world was upended by… Continued
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Pakistan: Flooded Once Again
Ashfaque Soomro and Frank van Steenbergen Pakistan, a land of multiple geographies and cultural mosaic after a decade (12 years) … Continued
Establishing Ecological Based Rodent Management in Ethiopia – Part 3: Collective implementation and ways forward
By Tadesse Tilahun, Getachew Engdayehu, Bantamlak Wondmnow, and Luwieke Bosma This is the third in a series of blog posts describing the development and implementation … Continued
Establishing Ecological Based Rodent Management in Ethiopia – Part 2: Developing and testing a biological rodenticide
By Tadesse Tilahun, Getachew Engdayehu, Bantamlak Wondmnow, and Luwieke Bosma This is the second in a series of blog posts describing the development and implementation … Continued
Establishing Ecological Based Rodent Management in Ethiopia – Part 1: The potential of Farmer’s Indigenous Knowledge
By Tadesse Tilahun, Getachew Engdayehu, Bantamlak Wondmnow, and Luwieke Bosma This is the first in a series of blog posts describing the development and implementation … Continued
Getting a head-start: improved seeds and fertilizers in Oromia
by Guta Eshetu Gemechu, Girma Senbeta, Jean Marc Pace Ricci Seed is life. Seed is the starter for agricultural development. There … Continued
Innovative Feed Solutions: Prosopis based livestock feed option for the pastoral/agro-pastoral communities
by Beruk Yemane (EthioFeed) and Frank van Steenbergen (MetaMeta) It is a major scourge, a destabilizer of pastoralist lives: the … Continued
Responding to the Fertilizer Crisis
by Getachew Engdayehu, Frank van Steenbergen and Girma Senbeta The Ethiopian synthetic fertilizer system has been under much pressure with … Continued
Stock water in saline settings
by Frank van Steenbergen In many coastal areas access to fresh water is a huge challenge. Groundwater maybe saline or … Continued
The beauty and the pest
by Frank van Steenbergen Postcard from Krabbendijke, the Netherlands. Beautiful flower strips adorn onion and potato fields. It is beauty … Continued
Nile Diplomacy: Breaking the Nation-Trap
The iconic Nile river flows through several countries who often stake competing claims to its waters. The key to resolving … Continued
Hedging Opportunities
by Frank van Steenbergen and Femke van Woezik In a landscape hedges make all the difference. This is the point … 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
Pest Management through Water Management
by Kbd Serder M Ferdous and Frank van Steenbergen Water management is essential to avoid crop stress and hence ensure … Continued
How an army of women is saving an endangered bird
In Assam, located in the northeast of India, one biologist named Dr. Purnima Barman Devi is putting together an army … Continued
What went wrong with organic agriculture in Sri Lanka?
By C.M. Wijayaratna, Abraham Abhishek, Meghna Mukherjee It would be fair to say that there is broad consensus at this … Continued
Psycho-social Support for Recovery and Resilience in Amhara
by Nardos Mesresha, Yoseph Cherinet, Jean Marc Pace, Girma Senbeta Conflict in Northern Ethiopia The war that erupted in Northern … Continued
From Tension to Teamwork: the magic of mediation and partnerships
(The case of GFF/FMO projects and AfricaJuice in Middle Awash, Oromia, Ethiopia) by Jean Marc Pace (MetaMeta Research), Girma Senbata … Continued
“Rats are gods, shrews are goddesses”
By Luwieke Bosma, Saroj Yakami, Dikhyani and Abraham Abhishek We are in India, in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Here … 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