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Uganda: Rural Women's Group Changes Lives Through Sanitation Projects

A women's group in Luweero District has taken the campaign to boost hygiene and sanitation practices to another level.

Publication Date: 
14/03/2017
All Africa
Tags:
Sanitation, Uganda, Women, Toilets, Waste Disposal, Drinking Water, Initiative, Africa
Water Pollution

Nema to launch ‘adopt a river’ anti-pollution tool

The National Environmental Management Authority has established an initiative, where school students and groups ‘adopt’ a river.

Publication Date: 
26/07/2016
Star (Kenya)
Tags:
Water Pollution, River Pollution, Rivers, Water Resources, Kenya, Initiative, Africa
Agriculture

Yam on terrace walls

Yam has several nutritional benefits, yet the crop remains neglected and underutilized. In the absence of national research and extension programmes on yam, LIBIRD’s initiative to promote yam cultivation on terrace walls has caught up with the Chepang communities in Nepal.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
01/06/2016
Bhawana Ghimire, Rajeev Dhakal, Roshan Pudasaini & et al
Leisa India
18
2
23-25
Tags:
Vegetables, Nepal, Food Security, Nutrition, South Asia, Agriculture, Initiative
Agriculture

Climate smart crops

Tubers, pulses and millets are important for the livelihoods and nutrition of poor farmers, especially in fragile regions. These crops are not only underutilised, but are also underresearched. Ama Sangathan, a women federation consisting of 1200 indigenous women, have revived these crops in two blocks in Odisha, by their vibrant campaigning.

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Publication Date: 
01/06/2016
Abhijit Mohanty, Sumani Jhodia
Leisa India
18
2
14-17
Tags:
Millets, Legumes, Farmers, Odisha, Women, Tribals, Rayagada (D), Kalahandi, Dryland Farming, Agroecosystem Planning, Animal Dung, Intercrop Systems, Organic Farming, Integrated Pest management (IPM), Nutrition, Climate Adaptation, Initiative
Agriculture

Pulse Panchayat - Achieving self sufficiency in pulse production

Pulse panchayat is an integrated approach in establishing a sustainable production, value addition and marketing system. The initiative implemented by a Farmer Producer Company in Tamil Nadu, is moving towards achieving self sufficiency in pulse production.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
01/06/2016
R S Shanthakumar Hopper, K Thachinamurthy
Leisa India
18
2
7-10
Tags:
Agriculture, Legumes, Tamil Nadu, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Farmers, Women, Groundnut, Knowledge, Initiative
Sanitation

A playful, portable sink to boost handwashing hygiene in Cambodia

A small plastic box decorated with smiling frogs and a bright green logo, Labobo looks like a toy, but it could help prevent thousands of people from getting sick with diarrhoea and other diseases.

Publication Date: 
07/07/2015
Reuters
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Sanitation, Cambodia, Health, Diarrhoea, Diseases, Child Health, Initiative
Energy

South Africa's jobless ignite creative power with solar kits

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A motorbike accident two years ago in the Cape Town suburb of Milnerton left Pascal Kassongo with a leg fracture, multiple cuts and a written-

Publication Date: 
07/07/2015
Reuters
Tags:
Energy, Solar Energy, Economy, Unemployment, South Africa, Initiative, Africa
Industry

Apple promotes Lisa Jackson, to lead all social policy initiatives

Lisa Jackson, the former chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, will take on an expanded role at Apple Inc, overseeing policy and social initiatives as well as being the company's top enviro

Publication Date: 
25/06/2015
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Apple, Computers, Initiative, Renewable Energy, Environment
Forests

Telangana invites President to launch green initiative Haritahaaram

The Telangana Government has invited the President, Pranab Mukherjee, to launch its green initiative ‘Telanganaku Haritahaaram’ (Green necklace for Telangana) that seeks to plant 230 crore saplings

Publication Date: 
24/06/2015
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Telangana, Initiative, Afforestation, Tree
Sanitation

Unique initiative to free villages from open defecation

Bhopal: In a unique initiative, Harda district administration has offered 25 paise more for a litre of milk, if villages from which it is sourced, are free from open defecation.

Publication Date: 
24/06/2015
IBN Live
Tags:
Madhya Pradesh, Harda (D), Initiative, Sanitation, Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Total Sanitation Campaign), Milk, Rural Sanitation