All Blog Posts Tagged 'Kenya' (16)

Continue

The case ENHANCING PASTORALIST SELF-RELIANCE THROUGH SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN KENYA shows us a wonderful idea.… Continue

I was going through the WomenWatch, and this story caught my attention. The story was about land grabbers; residents who claim land after the passing of someone else. It's really hard to sum it up into one sentence, so allow be to elaborate. Continue

I mentioned in my previous post the impact on food exporting nations from there being no air travel around Europe. There's a story on the Guardian website indicating that around 10-15 t of freight usually comes to Europe from Kenya each day, and the lack of flights is costing $1.3 M a day.…



Continue

Money is commonly defined as medium that can be exchanged for goods and services and is used as a measure of their value on the market. Money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and compare the value of goods and services.



Money has value only because we, humans have dictated that. A piece of colored paper with the picture of another (usually dead) human being has no value in itself. Money does not create inequality - humans do. Sound reasonable doesn’t…

Continue

I chose project for two almost superficial reasons: firstly, they have an amazing website (http://cleanwaterproject.net) which is quite unusual for a non-profit volunteer organisation. secondly, the group that runs the project is called Give Us Wings and I think this is a notion that all 'aid' related organisations could take note of - the point is not to fly people around, but rather to give them wings to fly themselves through… Continue

While researching I discovered an African organisation called Ecotact, one of Ashoka's partners. This project won a $200,000 prize in 2009 in the Changemakers/Global Water Challenge Contest for its work in Nairobi, Kenya. Ecotact works in both urban and rural situations to solve water and sanitation issues.



Ecotact's unique… Continue

Circle of Blue reports on water scarcity, water-security innovations, and recent news and sustainability innovations. This article reports on constructed wetlands/grey water recycling at a Prison in Kenya.

For more information, see:…

Continue

Continue

In 2006, the United Nations said it expected Africa to be the continent most affected by climate change, not because it produces a large amount of greenhouse gases - quite the opposite - but because it is the least equipped to cope with change.



2007-2009

The rains have failed in Kenya since 2007 resulting in a prolonged drought with over 10 million people needing food aid. Drought is a normal, recurring feature of the climate in most parts of the world. It…

Continue

As the mission brief summarized, the 3 most urgent consequences of the water crisis are water-related disease and death, lost time and potential and wasted resources. Clearly then when addressing water issues, one needs to look not only at access to clean water but also issues of proximity to the water source as well as sanitation. This is an area that AMREF has been working on and perhaps I am (just a tad) biased in choosing…

Continue

Agent Shakwei Mbindyo posed a question for us all here: should smallholders in African countries grow food to export to Europe? In her comment Agent Jen Shaffer expanded the question: she knows that many African nations export flowers to Europe. Are either one of these, or both, a good idea for Kenya and Kenyans? Shakwei asks, does "food miles" or other environmental concerns make this a… Continue

ONE and TWO



It’s March 10, 2020. I’m 62 years old. I’m inoculating wood mulch with Pleurotus spawn in the cool dampness of a cave, a welcome relief from the heat outside. It’s strangely calming to think like a mushroom spore, to let each microscopic bit fall where it has the best chance to awaken and grow.



This cave is a hundred years old. It was dug by hand to store wine casks, back when… Continue

Check this out!!! This is the cheapest way I´ve seen to purify water- Just put water… Continue

The change in global temperatures has led to change in the local weather patterns; this has great impact on our environment. The change in weather patterns has resulted to the melting of ice in Mt.Kenya, in the last few decades the once snow capped mountain has reduced its

volume of ice. The Mau and the Aberdare forest have not being spared either due…

Continue

The root of most problems are education and poverty. How do we educate in the face of poverty? Alfie Kohn is a social innovator because he has the courage to show why conventional schooling systems (like in the US) are broken. I wouldn't call him a hero -- that's just Evoke's silly video game rhetoric -- but he understands children and learning so clearly and explains his views clearer than any social activist or researcher I've ever seen. To me, what he is talking about is not just about… Continue