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The Women Workers’ Training Centre in the flat arid plain of Tamil Nadu works with about 100 villages in the surrounding area. Many years there is hardly any rainfall and there is widespread poverty. Most farmers are subsistence farmers and lack money to own the oxen needed for ploughing the land.
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The term biodiversity is used to describe the huge variety of life on this planet. An astonishing 1.8 million different species have been identified and named by scientists. Yet we still do not really know how many there are in the world.
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Testing and adapting ideas to meet local needs
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The Development Technology Unit of Warwick University aims to research and promote technologies appropriate for practical use in the Third World. Their aim was to develop a number of safe, low-cost alternatives for rainwater storage.
Resource Type: Magazine
Ideas for making the best use of small areas of land
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Worms live in the top layer of the soil. They are small creatures, often unnoticed, and yet they are very valuable to farmers. They eat plant and animal leftovers, turning them into useful nutrients for plants. With their burrows, they allow more air into the soil and improve drainage. Soils with plenty of worms will be fertile.
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The ‘tree gardens’ of the Chagga people of Mount Kilimanjaro provide an inspiring model of how land can be sustainably managed.
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Imagine vast areas of land with no trees and plants – just dust and cracked earth. When land which used to produce crops loses most of its fertility and becomes barren, the land becomes desert. For over 900 million people around the world this is a huge problem. It causes food and water shortages and forces people to leave their home areas.
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Haiti is the western part of the Caribbean island, shared with the Dominican Republic. Haiti means ‘mountainous’, but today Haiti’s steep slopes are scarred by massive erosion
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