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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Goshu Worku (Ethiopia) and James Yasona (South Sudan) are working on an urban agriculture project with 270 children from five schools and 150 women in Ethiopia. These community members are suffering from annual food shortages caused by a lack of adequate and safe irrigation water and a low awareness of urban agricultural techniques—combined with climate change related unpredictable onset and offset of the rainy season—and drought. A large percentage…

Masaka District, Southwest Uganda

Over the past six months Elijah Kajubi (Uganda), Siobhan Girling (UK), Jeff DeBlieu (US) and Alba Perez (Spain/Vietnam) have been developing a project with 300 families in five villages in the Masaka District of southwest Uganda. These agricultural families are suffering from widespread malnutrition caused by water scarcity due to climate variability—including extreme drought reducing crop yields, causing crop failure and negatively…

NAEE 2011 was a key milestone in the Nigeria’s roadmap for energy reform. Our vision is

to make NAEE 2012 even better! NAEE 2011 saw participation from 17 countries

representing all 6 continents and 147 companies gathered in Abuja to discuss African

alternative energy climate with particular emphasis on opportunities, challenges and

developments. Several notable speakers and experts from various sectors of the

alternative energy sector provided insights. Topics and papers…

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Upcoming Online Development Courses: January 2012…

There just never seems to be enough time to get everything done during the December holidays—including maintaining our vegetable garden.



This morning, now that the holidays are over, we decided to do a garden inventory designed to accomplish three things:

1. Find out what we need to eat right now.

2. Plan a series of meals to use these things up.

3. Determine what we need to plant seeds for for future harvests.



The first planting of seeds for this garden…

Do you have a community-based adaptation to climate change project that you would like to feature in a new Earthscan from Routledge book?



'A Field Guide to Community-Based Adaptation' is being written by Tim Magee for development practitioners and will include clear, step-by-step descriptions of successful project activities.…

Jelly Mae Moring comes from a small village on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines--but works for the Action Center for City Development in Vietnam. Knowing that she would be returning to the Philippines she decided to start a project in her family's community to launch when she returned.

Angela Burnett and Atoya George of the British Virgin Islands both work for the Conservation and Fisheries Department of the Government of the Virgin Islands, and have been working on a project in Cane Garden Bay since January for their organization.

Climate change has caused an increase heavy rains for their island and the storm water runoff causes flooding and deposits sediments and pollutants into the bay reducing water quality. Tourism is a major source of revenue for the island…

Partners Loraini Sivo (Fiji) and Fatema Rajabali (Kenya/UK) worked this year on a project in a small fishing village in Fiji.

The village of Yadua is very small with a population of about 200 people including men, women and children. The 10 people selected to participate in the needs assessment were representative of the whole village because of its small population size.…

Samalari and Titilari, Timor Leste.

1,000 children and adults from 200 families in two villages in the Island country of Timor Leste suffer from an annual food shortage caused by inadequate water for irrigation leading to poor rice harvests, and from an inability to adapt to a changing climatic pattern (a long drought, from July to November) restricting when staple crops such as corn and cassava can be planted.…

Meredith Waters (US) and Gillian Primus (Grenada) have been working for the past six months on a project on the Island of Grenada that has been hit by a series of tropical hurricanes and tropical storms exhibiting increased ferocity over the past seven years.