How to feed 12% of the world?
Posted by Frank van Steenbergen and Abraham Abhishek September 03, 2013 Public food programs have been crucial to food security … Continued
The WaterBlog
The road to community empowerment: Koti Kebele’s community
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. Reversing the Flow (RtF) is an initiative launched in October 2024 by ORDA Ethiopia, with financial support from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), and technical MetaMeta. This project empowers communities in six watersheds of Koti Kebele, Yilmana Densa, North Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia, to address environmental and socio-economic challenges. The project aims to restore degraded lands, improve livelihoods, and promote sustainable development. Koti Kebele comprises six watersheds: Chinchiho, Kurfi, Dewol Washaye, Dawit Degami, Adafit, and Yibaba Gomengie. Spanning 2,735 hectares, these watersheds are home to 1,285 households, including 65 female-headed households. Despite its potential, the area faces significant challenges such as land degradation, erosion, deforestation, and socio-economic issues like youth unemployment and limited opportunities for women. The… Continued
Previous posts
How to make a small river?
Posted by Frank van Steenbergen and Jaap Evers August 28, 2013 Obviously most rivers are natural, but there are also … Continued
Sardinia’s Sacred Wells
Posted by Frank van Steenbergen August 22, 2013 With low rainfall over a large part of the year and only … Continued
Water and Waste Water treatment technologies to know about
by Alan Kahn With over seven billion people on the planet in need of clean water that is safe for drinking, … Continued
Soil Salinity in Harran Plain, Turkey
by Şükrü Esin Soil salinity is a serious environmental problem affecting 20% of total irrigated land across the globe. Harran Plain … Continued
Water War Games
Posted by Frank van Steenbergen August 14, 2013 Using water as defense, drowning the land of 400,000 people, destroying villages … Continued
Sand Mining in India: Greed, Corruption and Plunder
Posted by Abraham Abhishek August 06, 2013 Sand is key to maintaining the delicate ecological balance. Sand is a key … Continued
Salty Potatoes
Posted by Frank van Steenbergen and Martin van Beusekom July 30, 2013 With a billion hectares of saline land and … Continued
Out to 2040: Multiple Stress Release
Posted by Likimyelesh Nigussie and Frank van Steenbergen July 17, 2013 Feeding the growing population is one of the biggest … Continued
In praise of mechanization
Posted by Frank van Steenbergen July 04, 2013 This may not be the first thing that comes to mind, but … Continued
Turnaround City
Posted by Frank van Steenbergen July 04, 2013 It had the distinction of being ‘the worlds most polluted city’ ten … Continued
The Men in the Boat
Posted by Frank va Steenbergen and Martin van Beusekom June 26, 2013 This is a man in a boat on … Continued
Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting in Arid Urban Areas: The Case of Sana’a, Yemen
Posted by Martin van Beusekom and Linda Navis June 18, 2013 Water shortage is key problem for the citizens … Continued
Turning Farm Waste into Food: The Hi-tech and the Low-tech
Posted by Ruben Borge, MetaMeta Circular Economy / Rockin SoilsJune 03, 2013 Famers knowing how to make compost is key … Continued
Farmer-smart ICT?
Posted by Likimyelesh Nigussie June 03, 2013 One of the big challenges in achieving global food security is ‘closing the … Continued
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
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