Archive for 2007
Taking the Heat
African farmers are better equipped to combat climate change than we think, says Mamby Fofana, but there’s still one way they need our help: they need us not to ignore the problem.
Fofana is a USC board member and former director of the Seeds of Survival (SoS) program in West Africa. Along with Kenyan NGO leader Joshua Mukusya, and Malawi-based researcher Rachel Bezner-Kerr, Fofana was in Canada for a series of USC-supported events called Taking the Heat: African Farmers and Climate Change.
Return to Nepal
Bruce Cockburn revisits Nepal after 20 years
October 2007
Twenty years after his first visit to Nepal, Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn is going back to the country he calls “hands down the most beautiful place on earth that I’ve seen.”…
Committing to Conservation
A model plant nursery in Burkina Faso
July 2007
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| Konfe Idrissa shows off his saplings |
In his home village of Pobé-Mengao in Burkina Faso, Konfe Idrissa runs a nursery, producing saplings of local tree species, and legumes like eggplant and …
Steering their own Course
Farmer Groups in Indonesia
July 2007
Mugo Langgeng (ML) is a farmer self-help group in the village of Kisik, not far from the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Kisik is small, made up of only about 135 houses set in an …
Stories of Hope
Development Isn’t Easy, but it is Possible
May 2007
When we started working in the Douentza District of Northern Mali, farming families were migrating to find work in the overcrowded cities, abandoning their farms to the growing Saharan sands – …