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In Rural Uganda, Women Supporting Women

Riva Richmond

May 25, 2017 |

The Story Exchange |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Uganda, Mityana, Mityana District

Though the overall poverty rate has been dropping in recent years, rural communities in Uganda still lack many basic resources, including access to healthy food, toiletries, and economic opportunity. The Network of Women in Agribusiness and Development was founded by women to empower and support their sisters through educational initiatives, agricultural training, and the provision of items such as pigs and fruit trees to help them break the cycle of poverty.

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Vietnam's response to climate change? A shrimp and mangrove cocktail

Julia Laurie

May 23, 2017 |

The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Vietnam, Ben Tre Province

Increasing salinization of water sources and droughts as a result of climate change have threatened traditional agricultural practices in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. But The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the Netherlands Development Agency are helping teach farmers to adapt by showing them how to work with the saltier waters, establishing organic shrimp farms instead of growing rice and preserving the valuable mangroves that protect their coastline from storms.

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Coffee grounds and poultry litter proving a viable biomass option in the UK

Matt Mace

May 19, 2017 |

Edie Newsroom |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom, Birmingham, West Midlands

The United Kingdom is finding creative ways to simultaneously address renewable energy needs and waste disposal. Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants are utilizing chicken manure from farms and coffee grounds to create electricity. The initiatives have the added benefit of improving standards for the treatment of poultry, as well as reducing the distribution of harmful toxins from the waste.

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Ladakh's Ice Stupas

Russell Beard

May 17, 2017 |

Al Jazeera |

Broadcast TV News |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: India, Leh, Kashmir

Nearly a billion people living in the arid regions of the Himalayas depend on glaciers for their water supply. But with climate change, glaciers have been retreating drastically every year, threatening the life source of villagers like those in the Ladakh region of Kashmir. One engineer, Sonam Wangchuck, has come up with an ingenious feat of engineering to help the villages store glacier water by constructing stupas - or towers - using thorn branches that retain ice in tall structures, which melts and provides clean water for drinking and agriculture during the dry season.

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Turning Goats into Water

Mukul Devichand Dougal Shaw

May 16, 2017 |

BBC |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Pakistan, Pathan Goth, Sindh

Fariel Salahuddin was determined to tackle the extreme lack of access to fresh water she encountered in rural Pakistani communities, but she wanted the model to be sustainable, not dependent on donations. Most of the communities didn't have regular access to rupees to help sustain their solar water pump micro-enterprises - what they did have, however, were goats. Salahuddin set up a scheme where villagers could pay for their clean water access with livestock instead of cash, which she then sells using Facebook at high rates during Muslim festivals to generate a sustainable revenue source.

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Kenyans turn to camels to cope with climate change

Andrea Dijkstra

April 24, 2017 |

Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Kenya, Isiolo, Nairobi

In agricultural communities across Kenya, global warming has led local farmers to turn to camels -- as an alternative to cows -- for dairy products both to feed their families and take to the local markets to sell. Furthermore, with an uptick in demand both regionally and nationally for camel milk, farmers are finding themselves with new purchasing power for various goods and services.

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Mansfield in need of a 'food systems intervention'

Emily Dech

April 21, 2017 |

Richland Source |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

Community leaders are working together to address the issue of food insecurity in Mansfield, caused not just by lack of access to grocery stores and fresh food sources, but also often by unemployment, high housing costs, low wages, poverty, and health care costs. The North End Local Foods Initiative is installing food gardens in these communities, creating access to fresh produce, to educational opportunities, recreational activity and more.

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Saving seeds and stories at Taos Pueblo

Cody Hooks

April 20, 2017 |

The Taos News |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Taos Pueblo, United States, Taos, New Mexico

One small thing colonization destroyed was seeds. Indigenous communities used to pass seeds down from generation to generation, but according to some estimates, seed erosion has wiped off as much as 90 percent of agricultural crops. A global effort is being undertaken to save seeds, and also conserve tradition.

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The world's greenest island

Tom A. Peter

April 16, 2017 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Denmark, Samso

Samsø, a small island in Denmark, has done what no other city has reached; energy independence. People on the island use a combination of wind, solar, and biomass, energy. How is such a large feat accomplished? Local leaders say it wasn’t because of technological breakthrough, but through collective action.

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Inside Canada's Secret Potato Laboratory

Karen Pinchin

April 13, 2017 |

The Walrus |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Canada, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Potato breeding has become common practice for some in Canada that are on a mission grow the spud more efficiently in order to anticipate demand and availability. So far they've been able to experiment with an earlier growing season as well as shed light on which potato breeding strategies can fight pests and diseases.

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