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‘The River Belongs to the People’
August 21, 2018|post
Photos by Bobby Neptune Gordon Mumbo grew up in the small village of Kamuga, in Kenya’s Kisumu County. Year after year, he watched as frequent floods from one of Kenya’s major rivers, the Nyando, disturbed the peaceful flow of village life. “In school we were reading about how the Dutch were able to control floods […]
Clubs That Help Kids Stay in School
August 15, 2018|post
Leonard Thedison, age 15, was listening closely. As a member of the anti-child labor club at Chiponde Primary School in the Mchemani Education Zone of Lilongwe Rural East, Malawi, he had already taken to heart the importance of education, how it could create a new life for himself and his family. But today’s topic was […]
Seeing the Forests for the Water
August 14, 2018|post
The world is experiencing both unprecedented forest loss and increasingly severe floods and drought events. These issues are often approached independently, despite the critical influence forest and water have on each other and in providing ecosystem services. This seminar will discuss innovative research demonstrating these interrelationships and how these findings can be used for policy […]
A Life Experience with the Rural Reconstruction Foundation in Bangladesh
August 13, 2018|volunteer
Winrock International invited me to volunteer in Bangladesh as part of the Farmer-to-Farmer Program funded by USAID. In Bangladesh, the Farmer-to-Farmer program engages skilled American volunteers to provide training and technical assistance to support youth entrepreneurship in the agriculture sector and to strengthen agricultural education and training institutions. My assignment was to visit local beef […]
Allometric Equation Evaluation Guidance Document
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The study of carbon stored in forests is based on the assessment of biomass stocks found in various vegetation types, along with the carbon stored in the soil. While it is not possible to directly measure the mass of carbon or vegetation in a forest area without harvesting and weighing all tree and vegetation biomass, […]
Examining Climate Information Services from Production to Uptake
July 31, 2018|post
By Abby Love, Fatema Rajabali and Robert O’Sullivan In June, the fifth international climate change adaptation conference, Adaptation Futures, was held in Africa, a first for the conference series. Around 1,200 people attended Adaptation Futures in Cape Town with a program that reflected the growing emphasis on climate information services (CIS) in the adaptation community. […]
Providing Low-Income Customers with Life-Improving Products
July 26, 2018|post
By Katie Gross and Evgenia Sokolova When Lilian first saw the modern charcoal stove for sale through a local retailer in her town of Kiserian, Kenya, she admired the product. But with only 1,000 shillings (USD $10) in her pocket, she couldn’t afford to pay for the $40 stove outright. School fees were a struggle […]
Malaysia’s Palm Oil Industry
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The palm oil industry has experienced significant growth and expansion during the past decades, becoming a key part of the Malaysian economy and one of the most important sources of jobs. However, with this growth has come widespread reports of human rights abuses related to consistent exposure of workers to hazardous chemicals, violent clashes over […]
Tanzania Water Resources Profile
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Tanzania is considered to be water abundant, however, heterogeneous climate and geology contribute to significant seasonal, interannual, and geographic variability in water availability and water quality challenges.
A Guinean Experience
July 18, 2018|volunteer
In May of 2018, I was very fortunate to be selected by Winrock International to lead a GIS and GPS workshop in the Republic of Guinea in West Africa. Below are excerpts from my journal I kept during the two weeks I was in-country: I flew into hot and steamy Conakry, the capital of Guinea, […]