Category: Rural development

Video testimony: Unprecedented flooding in Chad.

Publié le 20 September 2022

Harvests have been devastated, jeopardizing food security. Never in living memory has such a level of water been seen in the Bessada region in southern Chad, where Morija operates as part of its Resilience project….

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Morija mission in Togo

Publié le 8 July 2022

After a stint in Burkina Faso, our WASH, Education and Rural Development Programs & Partnerships Officer is now in Togo, with our partner Avenir de l’Environnement. Hélène Ernoul was able to visit the cocoa fields…

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Eat your own vegetables! International Pulses Day

Publié le 10 February 2022

Why does International Pulse Day deserve our attention? …Legumes are a subgroup of the vegetable category, grown to obtain only dry grains: broad beans and dried beans, dried peas (whole, split, chick…), lentils (green, red,…

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Bad weather and harvests from North to South

Publié le 30 July 2021

It did not escape you, the rain fell in abundance this summer in Switzerland. Exceptional floods were observed throughout the country. This abnormal weather for the season has an impact on vegetable crops. In parts…

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Millet: food security and climate change

Publié le 29 June 2021

Millet is a cereal, also called millet or sorghum, it is used for human and animal food. Mainly cultivated in Africa and Asia, this very nutritious cereal has many advantages: Able to grow in dry…

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World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

Publié le 17 June 2021

The term desertification refers to land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry subhumid zones caused by various factors such as human activities and / or climatic variations. In sub-Saharan Africa, the temperature increase is above…

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