Agroforestry World
With the global population increasing and our climate changing, now more than ever we need to halt the overexploitation of natural resources which supply us with water, energy and food, and manage these resources sustainably. For smallholder farmers...
Kenya could meet its demand for charcoal legally and sustainably, through agroforestry, says Miyuki Iiyama of the World Agroforestry Centre. News 24 Kenya reports that an estimated 6,850 metric tonnes of charcoal are consumed daily in Kenya, yet...
To feed a burgeoning global population, agricultural production has to more than double in the coming four decades, and it must do so within the expected climate-change-related stresses. Can this growth in production happen in a way that...
Logging, mining, construction and farming are some of the leading causes—or drivers—of the deforestation being witnessed throughout the developing world. These activities differ in scale, place and time, and they are changing even as efforts to combat forest...
Experts meeting in Rome have been discussing how to make the production of aviation biofuels sustainable and pro-poor. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) reports on discussions at the Sustainable Pro-poor Development of Aviation Biofuels workshop it...
While India has taken bold steps to move to cleaner fuels, a biting shortage of jatropha fruits used to produce biodiesel means the country will not meet its 2012 target of blending five percent biodiesel into all regular...
A story in Christian Science Monitor claims that purchases of charcoal by the United Nations – to fuel the troop kitchens of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) – are indirectly funding the terrorist group, Al Shebab....