Impoverished residents of Addis Ababa face a whole range of problems. Many consume as little as 10mg of vitamins and minerals a day (compared to a recommended 200mg). Poor households survive on just €100 income a year....
Located in the Alto Huayabamba region, in the Peruvian Amazonia, the Acopagro cooperative has grouped more than 1200 small producers of cocoa and sugar cane....
La coopérative ORO VERDE regroupe environ 1000 familles de petits producteurs de café de la région de Lamas sur le versant amazonien de la cordilère des Andes péruviennes. Cette région était autrefois relativement peu peuplée et assez difficile d'accès....
The Huni Kui project is located in the Amazone region and has been initiated by the Seringueiros Kaxinawa Association (20 years old association of former latex collection workers)....
Huarango forest used to be common in the desert surrounding the Peruvian city of Ica, capturing seasonal floodwaters and making the desert bloom. Now 98% of the forest is gone - cut down and turned to charcoal for use in the city....
Reforestation and agroforestry The plantation of rubber trees generated a major conflict between indigenous people and migrants who came to exploit rubber at the end of the Second World War....
Deforestation in the Andean hillsides around La Paz is a major cause of landslides, which have a devastating effect on the city and its inhabitants....
The Martin Sagrado project is a collective project, which aims to make of the Martin Sagrado reserve a model in terms of community forest conservation combined with agro-forestry and agro-ecological techniques, and showing the relationship between water,...
Nairobi is East Africa's most populous city, having grown from 10,000 inhabitants at the beginning of the last century to an estimated 3 million today....
