Every night Moussa Kamara works at his bakery preparing hundreds of loaves but at sunrise, instead of going home to sleep, he now starts a second back-breaking job - hoeing the earth and tending newly sown seeds in a specially designed circular garden. Kamara, 47, believes the garden will prove even more important than the bakery in the future for feeding his extended family, including 25 c...
By Thomson Reuters Foundation | 2 months ago
The country is curbing encroachment by paying farmers to grow trees for firewood and timber
By Thomson Reuters Foundation | 3 months ago
Her landlocked West African nation has been hard hit by drought and desertification caused in part by climate change.
By Thomson Reuters Foundation | 6 months ago
Two in five people worldwide, or 3 billion, do not have a hand-washing facility with water and soap at home
19 | Feb | 2021
At harvest time, farmers earn only about $1 for a bucket of fresh mangoes because there is so much of the fruit available, Gonde said.
By Thomson Reuters Foundation
23 | Jan | 2021
Degraded land is less productive, and releases climate-warming carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide from the soil.
30 | Oct | 2020
While the listings are free for now, Heng said he is looking to potentially charge eventually.
Africa needs to not follow the climate-damaging model of the West, and cutting land degradation can help
25 | Sep | 2020
But land experts say most of that land is either underutilised or completely unused.
Green groups have criticised the plan, warning it could dry out carbon-rich peatland and trigger forest fires
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