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When the People Decide: The True Meaning of Locally Led Decision-Making in Isiolo

Dossier: Locally-Led Adaptation in Practice

Women Driving Locally Led Adaptation in Char Communities in Bangladesh

Reconnecting Lives – The Road That Changed Godaibeel in Bangladesh

RESOLVE in action: From Fragmentation to a Shared Agroecology Future in Lebanon

Green Roads in Flood Depressions: Postcard from the Haors

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Rodenticides in Ethiopia – a short account

By Meheretu Yonas – Rodent Green Management Rodent pests and rodenticide use in Ethiopia Ethiopia’s economy heavily depends on agriculture, it … Continued

Pastoralist frontiers in Balochistan, Pakistan

By Allah Bakhsh, project coordinator FBLN SPO. Introduction Balochistan is arid in term of surface water availability. There are places … Continued

A ‘Third Way’ to Combat Climate Change: Microclimates

By Femke van Woesik As the most recent IPCC report on climate change was released last month, daunting headlines stating … Continued

Counting Trees with drones and Artificial Intelligence

by Francesco Sambalino, Eefje Visser, Kim de Groot September 8, 2021 Using a drone, we mapped ±4000 hectares of farmland … Continued

Food Preservation – the Blessing of Seasonality

By Frank van Steenbergen Post card from Riga, Latvia. It is the blessing of seasonality – the need to preserve … Continued

Access to drinking water in spate irrigation areas with small technology

By Allah Bakhsh, project coordinator FBLN SPO. Introduction The entire Kachi Plain in Balochistan, Pakistan, is devoid of fresh groundwater … Continued

Improving hygiene and health: village level ecologically based rodent management

By Meheretu Yonas, Luwieke Bosma and Frank van Steenbergen Village-level Ecologically based Rodent Management is promoted by Rodent Green and … Continued

Hope for Salt: introducing salt tolerant potato varieties in Pakistan

By Marina Vara Gutiérrez and Simon Chevalking The Salt Challenge Are there options to make the best of these increasing saline … Continued

A Brave New Groundwater World

posted by Frank van Steenbergen Since Lester Brown’s seminal book “Who will feed China?” many eyes have been watching the … Continued

More crop per drop: Farmer-learning and the promise of improved water use in agriculture

More crop per drop: Farmer-learning and the promise of improved water use in agriculture By Frank van Steenbergen and Petra … Continued

Last Call at the Oases

By Frank van Steenbergen St. Bishoy Monastries – Dug out shallow water source (own image) The oases of Wadi … Continued

Agriculture has a Rodent problem

by Abraham Abhishek, Luwieke Bosma August 26, 2021 Globally, up to 15% of standing crops or stored harvest is damaged … Continued