Agriculture
Bees and malnutrition
Loss of pollinators increases risk of malnutrition and disease
A new study shows that more than half the people in some developing countries could become newly at risk for malnutrition if crop-pollinating animals — like bees — continue to decline.… read more
From Waste to Food to Fuel
Rice Production and Green Charcoal in Senegal
Inadequate management of human waste is a dire problem in much of the developing world. Swelling urban populations can make matters worse by exposing increasingly dense populations to illnesses carried by human waste.… read more
Algae Farm Power
Algae fuel or Algal biofuel is an alternative to fossil fuel that uses algae as its source. Harvested algae, like fossil fuel, release CO2 when burnt but unlike fossil fuel the CO2 is taken out of the atmosphere by the… read more
Don’t turn a blind eye to what’s in yo..
Palm oil is a key ingredient in everything from cereal, biscuits and margarine to shampoo, lipstick and toothpaste. Unless we curb our desire for it critical forests and wildlife habitat will be gone forever.
From the minute we have breakfast… read more
Cane-sugar is better
Ethiopian sugar, better for the environment and climate
Grow less beet-sugar in Holland and improve cane-sugar growing in Ethi0pia. In the 50s and 60s of the last century the Dutch, of the Handelsvereniging Amsterdam, started the sugar industry in Eastern… read more
