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Just a reminder: The role of urban gardens, family gardens and school gardens.
My publication in January 2010: https://containergardening.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/the-role-of-urban-gardens-family-gardens-and-school-gardens-willem-van-cotthem-irin-fao/ by Prof. Dr. Willem Van...
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Back in 2009: If they do it in Washington, D.C. and Sulphur, LA, why don’t we...
In September 2009 I wrote: https://containergardening.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/washington-d-c-students-plant-vegetable-garden-on-h-street-google-gw-hachet/ by Prof. Dr. Willem Van Cotthem (Ghent...
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25,000 die each day
Photo credit: Community garden in Niou (Prov. Kourweogo, Burkina Faso) in 2009 – Project Committee Maastricht-Niou and TC-Dialogue Foundation (Belgium) started in 1988. – Soil conditioned with TC –...
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First help the local people to decent food
Photo credit: WVC 1997 Photo taken at the start of the community garden photographed 12 years later by Willemien (see photo of 2009-02 in Niou). At the first training session, the local women learn how...
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In Burkina Faso they love the zaïs
http://kaabnoogo.blogspot.be/, Burkina Faso Beating back the desert in Burkina Faso, field by field by Romaric Ollo Hien EXCERPT In Burkina Faso, what was once stony semi-wasteland is now covered in...
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Just a reminder: The role of urban gardens, family gardens and school gardens.
My publication in January 2010: https://containergardening.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/the-role-of-urban-gardens-family-gardens-and-school-gardens-willem-van-cotthem-irin-fao/ by Prof. Dr. Willem Van...
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Back in 2009: If they do it in Washington, D.C. and Sulphur, LA, why don’t we...
In September 2009 I wrote: https://containergardening.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/washington-d-c-students-plant-vegetable-garden-on-h-street-google-gw-hachet/ by Prof. Dr. Willem Van Cotthem (Ghent...
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25,000 die each day
Photo credit: Community garden in Niou (Prov. Kourweogo, Burkina Faso) in 2009 – Project Committee Maastricht-Niou and TC-Dialogue Foundation (Belgium) started in 1988. – Soil conditioned with TC –...
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First help the local people to decent food
Photo credit: WVC 1997 Photo taken at the start of the community garden photographed 12 years later by Willemien (see photo of 2009-02 in Niou). At the first training session, the local women learn how...
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In Burkina Faso they love the zaïs
http://kaabnoogo.blogspot.be/, Burkina Faso Beating back the desert in Burkina Faso, field by field by Romaric Ollo Hien EXCERPT In Burkina Faso, what was once stony semi-wasteland is now covered in...
View ArticleJoining private gardens into giant allotments (City Farmer News / The Oxford...
Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/12/19/plan-to-pool-gardens-to-create-giant-city-allotment-in-oxford/ Plan to pool gardens to create giant city allotment in Oxford Linked by Michael Levenston...
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What comes first: Strategies for combating climate change or for creating...
Let me recommend to read very attentively the former posting on this blog : UNICEF: Children most vulnerable to climate change...
View ArticleUrban Agriculture in the Bronx, New York City (City Farmer News / NCBI)
Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/11/18/community-gardens-an-exploration-of-urban-agriculture-in-the-bronx-new-york-city/ Community Gardens: An Exploration of Urban Agriculture in the Bronx,...
View ArticleA new garden on the UA campus for the community to grow fresh produce (Google...
Read at : Google Alert – desert gardening http://www.kold.com/story/15879761/ua-has-a-green-thumb UA has a green thumb By David Gonzalez TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) – The University of Arizona is planting the...
View ArticleUrban agriculture and community gardening bring food, jobs and money to local...
Read at : Google Alert – vertical gardening http://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/stories/making-a-case-for-the-urban-garden Making a case for the urban garden In addition to providing...
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Bottom-up view on effective, long-term solutions to combat desertification,...
Reading every day a number of publications on drought, desertification, hunger, malnutrition, famine, poverty and conflicts, I noticed that more and more voices are raised about the urgent need for a...
View ArticleI’m Dancing and Singing in the Drought (Willem Van Cotthem)
You probably know I’m not the actor Gene KELLY, that’s why I’m not dancing and singing in the rain, but in the drought. The reason for my optimistic mood today is quite simple : there are so many...
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Reforestation and community gardens in Ivory Coast (Willem Van Cotthem)
In 1993, the FIFTY ONE Service Clubs of Belgium and Ivory Coast decided to sponsor one of the projects of the Botany Department of the University of Ghent (Belgium) : “Reforestation and community...
View ArticleKenya and the MDGs (Google / The Global Herald)
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://theglobalherald.com/kenya-desertification-presents-a-challenge-to-millenium-development-goals/22254/...
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Agriculture must be harnessed to improve nutrition and health in Guinea...
Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93169 GUINEA: Nutrition finds a place in agriculture plan DAKAR, 7 July 2011 (IRIN) – The quality of a baby’s first solid food and teaching...
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