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How To Guide 2: Ensuring Healthy Soil for High Yields
This how to guide is designed for both farmers and consumers interested in growing healthy, safe and chemical free food. It is designed to help you understand what ecological agriculture is and it’s role in food safety and environmental protection. It also gives you a step by step guide on how to transition from conventional…
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COVID-19 Lessons Call For Sharing and Learning to Co-create a Lasting Future
Kenyans have stepped up for over two months now and taken bold actions in the face of COVID-19 crisis. Many have woken up to the reality that we have been…
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How To Guide 1: Ecological Farming – definition, principles and benefits.
This how to guide is designed for both farmers and consumers interested in growing healthy, safe and chemical free food. It is designed to help you understand what ecological agriculture is and it’s role in food safety and environmental protection. It also gives you a step by step guide on how to transition from conventional…
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The Story of Plastic is an eye opener into the global plastic pollution crisis
What does an anti-oil & gas activist in Houston, Texas, have in common with a lawyer advocating for plastic bag bans in Jakarta, Indonesia, and a waste picker in Delhi,…
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34 Plastic Bans in Africa | A Reality Check
Africa has come a long way on the journey to creating a single-use plastic-free world with many victorious milestones to celebrate across the continent. We’ve been said to be leading…
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Global crisis now! What nature is reminding us
Hello Readers! My name is Enjer Ashraf, founder My Tree Initiative Uganda living in Kampala, Uganda. l love so much working with children. My team and I work with primary…
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Africa’s Exploding Plastic Nightmare
ROSEMARY NYAMBURA SPENDS her weekends collecting plastic with her aunt Miriam in the Dandora dump in Nairobi. Because the bottles they sell to other plastics traders are mixed in with discarded…
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We don’t need more fishing licences – we need help to fight COVID19!
There’s been outrage in recent weeks over news that the Senegalese government will start a process which could lead to the issuing of 54 new licenses to destructive, industrial fishing…
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The blessings and the curses of the day after will be up to us
Greenpeace Africa Campaigner Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue I started 2020 with a renewed sense of optimism. I promised myself to make the first year of the third decade of the third…
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Finding the crack in the lockdown
Human beings love comfort, freedom and certainty. The COVID-19 lockdown has instantly taken all that away from landing us in a new reality and an unchartered territory. Some react with…