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[from amaah] Passive Transfer - the Eden experience in Niger

After reading Esther Garvi's blog about life in Niger, a nice intro to her foundation's approach to deal with desertification in the Sahel. Research on drought tolerant edible perennial plants, eduction of farmers, seeding etc. Striking results it seems

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Leopard

The most agile and intelligent of all big cats!

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African Wild Cat

The beautiful and ancient African Wild Cat!

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Jungle Cat

The largest of the Felis genus wild cats!

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Leopard Distribution

A look at the current and historic range of the amazing leopard!

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Lion Subspecies

Quick facts about lion subspecies!

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Lion

Interesting information about lions!

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[from amaah] Butter that brought fat profits to the mud huts of Ghana

puff piece on shea butter cooperatives that are finally reaping benefits.

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[from amaah] The Sea Eats the Land at Home by Kofi Awoonor

It came one day at the dead of night, Destroying the cement walls, And carried away the fowls, The cooking-pots and the ladles, The sea eats the land at home;

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[from amaah] Climate change escalates Darfur crisis

Competition for water – in refugee camps, between farmers and herders, and between countries – has long sparked conflict in the arid region and forms one of the main causes of the war in Sudan's Darfur region. dramatic climate change will have its sha

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[from amaah] Scorched

Julian Borger pursues Jared Diamond's notion of Darfur as the first climate change war. Only a few years ago, it was just nomads and farmers. What changed, the evidence suggests, was the climate. Is environment destiny? What about politics of convenience?

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[from amaah] Poverty and Post-Harvest Fishery Livelihoods in Ghana (pdf)

The very poor in post-harvest fisheries are involved in low paid manual work such as fishing, processing, moving fish at landing sites and markets, fish hawking, net mending and firewood collection. seasonal agricultural work and petty trading. The very p

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[from amaah] The Real Roots of Darfur

the environment as destiny theory ergo environmental degradation of decades causing imbalances between nomadic and settled farmer. Pretty much what Jared Diamond has been theorizing. regardless Sudan is depressing rather than delightful as the proverb goe

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