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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.. . .UAE home to 36% of furniture factories in GCC, and controls significant imports in timber sector
Posted on :Tuesday , 12th January 2016
Dubai WoodShow scheduled for April 2016 will see major expansion
Dubai, UAE, January 2016: Organisers of the Dubai WoodShow, the largest exhibition in the Middle East for timber, machineries and tools, have revealed that the UAE is home to nearly 36% of the furniture factories of the GCC, reflecting the growth in the domestic furniture sector and increase in demand for imported t. . .Please Select an Option
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