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Use half-moon ditches to prevent soil erosion
Save and edit this resource as a Word document. You may live in a place where the land is dry and cracked. No trees, plants or crops grow there. Animals barely survive. You worry you will have to move to find better land for farming. You are not alone. Infertile land is spreading like a…
Stop Your Land from Turning to Desert
Save and edit this resource as a Word document. Imagine a vast area of land. Now, picture nothing on it. No trees, no plants – just dust and cracked earth. How does land get to this state? When rich earth that used to produce crops loses most of its fertility and becomes barren, we call…
Save your Own Seeds, Part Two: Seed Storage
Save and edit this resource as a Word document. Saving your own seeds saves money. It is also the best way to make sure that traditional crop varieties do not disappear. The traditional crops that have grown in your region since before your grandparents’ time are well adapted to the local climate and soil. And…
Save your Own Seeds, Part One: Seed Selection
Save and edit this resource as a Word document. Saving seeds from your own crops saves money. And it also helps to preserve the traditional crop varieties which grow in your region. Farmers always used to save seed from their crops to plant the next season. But many farmers now buy seeds from stores in…
Live Fences Protect Crops and Plants
In Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa, deforestation and soil erosion are having a disastrous impact on the environment. Reforestation programs have been introduced to reverse the damage. But many of these programs are expensive and the newly planted trees are often destroyed in the first year by village cattle. It is estimated that…
Growing Fruit in the City
Even though Mr. Darbis Leyva lives in the city you could still call him a farmer. In fact Mr. Leyva produces much of the meat and vegetables and almost all of the fruit for his family of five. Mr. Leyva lives in Havana, the capital city of Cuba. He and his family know the joys…
New Skills Help Women Earn Extra Money
In many places, women are the ones who grow food, shop for food, cook, and feed the family. They also nurse family members who are sick. So when women spend their money, it is for the benefit of the whole family, not just themselves. But when the growing season is over, many women agricultural workers…
Gardening in Tires
We all need fresh vegetables in our diet to be healthy. And sometimes, growing them ourselves is the only way we can afford to eat them regularly. “But,” you say, “I live in the city. I don’t have space to grow vegetables.” Well, just because you live in a city doesn’t mean you can’t have…
The Ceramic Jiko Stove
In Kenya, many households, especially in urban areas, use a metal charcoal stove for cooking which is called a jiko stove. Recently researchers at KENGO (Kenya Energy and Environment Organizations) developed a new ceramic model of the jiko stove that uses less fuel and therefore helps to reduce deforestation. The new stove, called the ceramic…
Hints for the Small Farmer
How to Prepare Green Vegetables for the Dry Season By Sarah Massengo, Tanzania In many tropical climates, there is a wet season followed by a long, hot, dry season. In the wet season wild and cultivated vegetable crops grow well. People need the vitamins and minerals that come from these green vegetables to stay healthy….