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  • Ethiopia: Large Scale Tree Plantation Ensuring Climate Resilient Economy

    Posted on :Monday , 12th September 2016

     The increase in global warming, soil erosion and depletion of soil fertility, air and water pollution, soaring temper atures and weather patterns as well as the ozone depletion are among the major issues of concern in this modern age. Forests play an important role in curbing climate change and its effects. The destruction and degradation of forests contribute to the problem through the r. . .

  • How bamboo farming galvanises the Made-in-Rwanda campaign

    Posted on :Thursday , 8th September 2016

     It might be a policy in Rwanda that bamboo trees are fully integrated into forestry and overall development strategies, but a section of society still feels that little attention has been paid regarding bamboo’s potential to offer solutions to the country’s employment challenges.

     
    Jean Bosco Uwizeyimana, the managing director of Bambousa Ltd, said a. . .

  • Kenya seeks global trade restrictions on tree used for wood carvings

    Posted on :Tuesday , 30th August 2016

     Kenya is seeking a global trade restriction on a tree species used for making wood carvings and music instruments, a Kenyan scientist said on Monday.

     
    Kenya will submit a joint proposal to the Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meeting next month for the regulation of trade in the African blackwood, or Mpango. . .

  • Efficient cookstoves save trees - and chickens - in Kenya

    Posted on :Friday , 26th August 2016

     GICHANGI, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farmers in Kenya's Laikipia County have found a clever way to reduce their use of wood for fuel while raising more chickens for cash: an efficient ceramic cooking stove that doubles as a chick brooding box.

     
    The locally built stove, used for cooking and home heating in the cool region, contains a separate warming a. . .

  • Feature: Kenya's rural women invest in trees for retirement benefits

    Posted on :Monday , 22nd August 2016

    Under the Kenyan public service and retirement benefits laws, Ruth Gachacha, in her 50s, would be counting days to receive her sendoff package, the money that would sustain her day-to-day activities in her frail years.
     
    But the rural farmer in the Rift Valley county of Nakuru has an unusual way of preparing for a comfortable lifestyle in her old age.
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