Electricity from water power
How a Kenyan village gets electricity from running water
Jatropha oil ? an alternative to kerosene
A simple lantern than runs on home-grown oil
Small scale irrigation interventions for system productivity and natural resource management in Ethiopian highlands: benefits and best-bets
Water scarcity became a common phenomenon in Ethiopia with drought frequency of at least once in three years while the country owns a large irrigation potential that should be exploited sustainably. Various national and international institutions are currently engaged in developing small scale irrigation (SSI) schemes for poverty alleviation.
Solar power for rural electrification
Cameroon?s drive to spread the technology
Solar-powered fans for tobacco curing
Save fuelwood and increase control over temperature
Solar-powered water pumps
150 communities in The Gambia get water this way
Textes et textes de loi sur la gestion des ressources naturelles au Burkina Faso
La gestion durable des ressources naturelles, notamment dans les pays du Sahel, a toujours soulevé des problèmes dont celui de l’inadaptation des législations nationales y relatives. Le processus d’élaboration et de mise en œuvre de ces législations est à l’image des conditions politiques, socio-économiques et culturelles des pays en question. Le Burkina Faso, pour sa part, a connu plusieurs formes de régimes politiques et, de ce fait, capitalise un certain nombre d’expériences de réformes législatives et réglementaires dans le secteur des forêts et des ressources naturelles.
The role of informal institutions in the use of forest resources in Latin America
This study adopts an institutional approach to analyze the way in which informal rules, in their interaction with formal rules, shape the use of forest resources by diverse types of smallholders and communities (i.e., indigenous people, agro-extractive and traditional communities) in Latin America. Attention is given to understanding the ‘working rules’, comprising both formal and informal rules, that individuals use in making their decisions for land and forest resources access and use, which in turn affect benefits generation and distribution from such resources use.
Trees for fuel and fertility
Planting nitrogen-rich trees that also provide fuelwood