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Biodiesel production: Generating income for small-scale farmers in Kenya

May 30, 2012

Signature tune up then under HOST: Hello and welcome to our program on agriculture. In Kieni constituency of Kenya’s Nyeri district, a local NGO called Help Self Help Centre is offering an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuel. It is producing biodiesel from oil-producing seeds found in the local area, and collected by local farmers. In…

SolarAid’s micro solar project in rural Tanzania: Tremendous solar energy potential

May 30, 2012

HOST: Irna Hutabarat works with a UK-based organization called SolarAid. For many years, she has worked to bring solar energy to Africa. Right now she is working in Tanzania. To find out about her work, we sent our reporter Benedict Komba to Mafinga District, Iringa Region, in the southern highlands of Tanzania, where he met Irna…

An Alternative Fuel Source: Make Charcoal Briquettes from Banana Peels

October 1, 2005

SIGNATURE TUNE SOUND EFFECTS (PICK AXE CHOPPING FIREWOOD). Host: If you grow bananas in any part of the world, you will be interested in our program today, because we are going to talk about how banana peelings can be used to make charcoal briquettes. This is a technology that will save many trees. This technology…

Choose Energy Sources Wisely

November 1, 1998

Have you heard about sustainable farming? It’s a way of farming that many farmers are talking about. Sustainable farming can also be called long-term farming or farming for the future. It means taking care of the land. In return the land will produce food for many years, so that your children’s children can enjoy good…

Use the Sun to Cook your Food

April 1, 1996

One way people sometimes describe a really hot day is to say, “It’s so hot, you could fry an egg on the ground.” Well, how about cooking vegetables in a box in the sun? You can do this using the rays from the sun. This is called cooking with solar energy. Cooking with solar energy…