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THE FIRST EAST AFRICAN LANDCARE MASTER CLASS TAKES FOOT IN UGANDA

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In support of the African Landcare Network, East African Regional Offices of World Agroforestry Centre hosted the first East African Landcare Master Class from 19th to the 23rd March in Mbale Uganda. This site was chosen to showcase the work of an innovative Landcare platform, the Kapchorwa District Landcare chapter (KADLACC). The aim of the class was to bring together current and potential landcare practitioners from across East Africa to strengthen the network, to further link research with development and to provide a unique learning opportunity for the participants. Up to 30 participants from 6 different countries including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Malawi participated in the training. From a diversity of backgrounds including country landcare chapters, staff from ministries and boards of agriculture and natural resource management, major networks and NGOs gathered to engage in building landcare programs, share landcare skills and knowledge and participate in ac

Dreams do come true....The 'Have Faith-Act Now' Youth Caravan Documentary

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‘It’s morning, sunny and inviting and I can’t wait to start the day; Its noon, warm and bright, am effusing energy and passion; its evening, the sun sets in the horizon and I can’t wait for tomorrow’  One cold chilly and gloomy evening we sit round in a circle pondering about what will happen. Outside, its heavily snowing, it couldn't get worse or so I thought! As we look about unsure how we should start this I quietly think to myself, ‘What a disappointment! We did everything..... Everything’! I can almost feel the pain and see the hurt on many a face! It’s been a rigorous three weeks preceded by months of planning and we almost have nothing to show for it! Only that we are family now, have been for the past few months as we planned for all this, at the now famous ‘Chini ya mti’ at the University of Nairobi back in Kenya. This was at Danhostel, Bellahoj in Copenhagen after the end of the UNFCCC COP 15 where our hopes for a fair and legally binding deal had

The ABC of Green Economy: Part 1

So, recently, there has been much talk on the Green Economy as the pathway to a sustainable future. This is the core ideology on which the entire sustainable development revolution is hinged on, and is the rallying call for the forthcoming epic conference in June 2012, in Rio de Janeiro – Rio+20 (Earth Summit). But the Green Economy report which has been prepared by UNEP is quite extensive, over 600 pages long, and this has been quite a challenge to many people. However, I intend to present a simplified overview of the Green Economy concept of development in this blog post series. Part 1 will focus on the outline of the Green Economy, and it is heavily excerpted from UNEP’s Green Economy Report ( http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/Portals/88/documents/ger/ger_final_dec_2011/Green%20EconomyReport_Final_Dec2011.pdf ). Definition of the Green Economy UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) describes the Green Economy as “ one that results in   improved human well-being and soc