Search Results - "NGO"

Event Presentations: Scaling Up Experiential Learning Tools for Sustainable Water Governance in India by Falk, Thomas, Kosec, Katrina, Priyadarshini, Pratiti, Sanil, Richu, Melesse, Mequanint B., Zhang, Wei, Duche, Vishwambhar, Carrillo, Lucia, ElDidi, Hagar, Foundation for Ecological Security Team

“…The interventions have been deployed in more than 5,000 communities, either directly by the Indian NGO Foundation for Ecological Security or in partnership with other NGO, government, or private sector programs. …”
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CGIAR International Centers Week, Washington, DC, October 30-November 3, 1995: Summary of Proceedings and Decisions

“…Bangladesh and Romania joined the CGIAR.The Group adopted an action plan for strengthening NARS-CGIAR linkages. The CGIAR NGO Committee, making its first report, was urged to broaden the dialogue with the NGO community. …”
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Understanding organic farming by Njoroge, John

“…Mr John Njoroge is one of three founder members of the Kenya Institute of Organic Farming, an NGO involved in the dissemination of information on organic agriculture to smallholder farmers in Kenya. …”
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Polish your skills by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Other courses include basics of NGO administration, community development programme...…”
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Kenyan farmers turn to grain amaranth by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Grain amaranth (Amaranthus hybridus) offers the prospect of substantially increasing food output in dryland areas of Kenya, according to a local NGO, Strategic Poverty Alleviation Systems (SPAS)...…”
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Abantu: people training people by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Abantu, a word meaning 'people' in several African languages, is the focus and the key resource of this 1990s style NGO. Abantu for Development was created in 1991 with the aim of empowering the African people, women in particular, to control and...…”
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Handover is guaranteed by Faye, Mamadou

“…Mamadou Faye, of the Eaux et Forêts (Forestry department) in Mbacké, Senegal, writes about the results of close collaboration between the NGO SOS Sahel, government services and local villagers. …”
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Labour-saving equipment by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Munachoongo Mulaya, a field officer with the NGO Africare explains how labour-saving farm equipment can be a major advantage for communities who have lost much of their manpower to diseases such as HIV/AIDS…”
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River blindness by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Dr Elizabeth Elhassan of the NGO Sight Savers International explains what her organisation is doing to alleviate the problem of river blindness among farming communities in Nigeria and other parts of west and central Africa…”
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Ghana: Naga women, ICTs and natural resource management by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Joana Francis Adda describes how an NGO in Ghana is using video equipment to enable women to devise community plans for natural resource management.…”
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Zimbabwe women get together by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The Zimbabwe Women's Bureau is an NGO association whose aim is to assist local groups in their efforts towards development. …”
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Mango powder by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Dried mango powder, which is easily made into a drink, a paste or a jam, and which keeps well is the result of research by GRAT (Group de recherche et d'applications techniques), a Malian NGO. The mangoes are dried and then ground into powder...…”
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The whole yields more by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The relatively young Kenyan NGO SACRED-Africa (see Spore 82, page 15) is extending its work to improve maize-legume inter-cropping in ways that can be quickly adopted by farmers. …”
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Radio soap opera for rural development by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Produced by the information centre of the Ministry of Agriculture, in collaboration with Media Trust, a British NGO, it now has six...…”
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Nigeriens say cheese by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Some 100 farmers in Niger are recently producing cheese from dromedary milk with the assistance of Karkara, a local NGO. Cheese making with this milk is difficult since it does not easily coagulate. …”
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Let it grow by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Christophe Mabiala Mvika of the NGO Action for Community Development - ADEC (BP 94, Muanda, Bas Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo) reports 'we have now completed our experimental reforestation plot of 109 by 44 metres. …”
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Expired pesticides taken in hand by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Tuareg villages in northern Mali, where water was polluted by leaking pesticides, will get safe water thanks to a E 50,000 project of the Spanish NGO Acción Contra el Hambre co-funded by the European Union. …”
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Arid Lands Information Network by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN) is principally for field workers, project managers, group leaders and local government officials. ALIN is a British NGO, based in Dakar, Senegal, which is designed to help people working in the field to...…”
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Exchange of Information and Expertise 1 by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Martin Desire Abega, Association Terre et Développement, Ngoumou, Cameroon: 'We are a young NGO concerned with rural development in the Mefou Akono regions of Central Province. …”
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Welcome to our place! by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Working for the Gilman International Conservation NGO, he makes out a case for the conservation of national parks. …”
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