Rural development – Page 2

International Day of Rural Women

Publié le 15 October 2022

The presence of rural women is particularly important in certain regions of the world, notably in Africa, Asia and Latin America. They represent between 20% and 50% of the active agricultural population on these continents,…

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….

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…

International Mother Earth Day 2022: Restoring ecological ecosystems

Publié le 22 April 2022

A flagship event for ecology, International Mother Earth Day is celebrated today, April 22. Its objective is to raise public awareness of environmental protection and to encourage the adoption of ecological behavior. Human impact on…

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,…

Morija launches a new project in Chad called “Resilience”

Publié le 5 November 2021

Morija is launching a new large-scale project in Chad in partnership with Raps-Développement and Aprofika with the support of the European Union. In Mandoul Province, in the far south of the country, the consequences of…

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…

Climate change and humanitarian crises: are we going to succeed in this challenge?

Publié le 20 July 2021

From January 2020 to March 2021, worldwide spending on fossil fuels exceeded spending on renewable energies. The ecological transition is underway, but there is still a lot to do. (Source) Many countries lack the financial…

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…

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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