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Kate Langford
Kate Langford is a consultant writer with close to 20 years’ experience in communicating natural resource, environmental and land management issues for various government and non-government organizations. She previously worked as Communications Specialist for the World Agroforestry Centre in Kenya and has worked in Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam and Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Science and a Graduate Diploma in Scientific Communication.
The African Biochar Partnership was launched during an international workshop at the World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi in early March 2016. The partnership is aimed at improving coordination and communication among biochar initiatives as well as building capacity on...
Kinnarahalli, a village in the Hassan district of Karnataka State, India has been declared ‘smokeless’ thanks to the World Agroforestry Centre’s Biofuel Programme. Of the village’s 79 households, 77 are now equipped with biogas facilities which make use...
Government agencies, NGOs and farmers’ groups are working together to ensure the preservation of the Nipa-Nipa Grand Forest Park in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, thanks to facilitation by the Canadian-funded Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi project. The Nipa-Nipa...
A wide range of medicinal plants are used to treat diseases and health conditions in animals. A new manual documents these ethnoveterinary practices in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and describes 53 of the plants used. It looks...
Innovative finance is needed to protect the ecosystem services that Indonesia provides to its people and the planet. Innovative landscape management must match that finance, explained Director-General Tony Simons at a forum in Jakarta ‘In the past...
Tree foods in Africa “can mean the difference between life and death,” says an article on the website of the UK Food Commission. Trees can sustain families during the dry season and in times of food shortage. Trees...