August 1, 2023GEM Digest of the Month - Published monthly since December 2009 Contents

The aim of the online challenge is to show the multitude of ways fonio and the other cereals belonging to the millet family can be used in order to encourage people to put them back on the menu. [...] A complex of pipes carries the wastewater to the so-called “fat box” and then to the Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) reactor and a tank for “polishing”, exposed to the sun, and another for the water ready for irrigation. [...] There are socio-cultural aspects that hinder the expansion of the stoves and lead to the continued use of wood-burning stoves, environmentalist Ricardo Navarro, of the Salvadoran Center for Appropriate Technology, a local affiliate of the international organization Friends of the Earth, told IPS. [...] The main objective of this study is to assess the extent to which national energy and environmental policies and strategies in Africa have the potential to provide enabling conditions for sustainability interventions in the charcoal sector. [...] The session 'Making African Food Systems Gender-Responsive for Equitable Livelihood', organized on the cusp of the 8th AASW, unpacked the recent report by FAO on the Status of Women in Agri-food Systems, contextualized and identified the gaps and opportunities toward equitable and healthy food systems.