In the heart of Laikipia, young people are rediscovering the wisdom of indigenous seeds and the power of community. Seeds of Change in Laikipia tells a story of hope, heritage, and resilience — how traditional farming, local collaboration, and youth action are nurturing both the land and livelihoods, ensuring that the roots of culture and nature grow stronger together.
La Terre comme Courage / The Land as Courage
La vidéo présente le témoignage d’une femme cultivatrice locale qui partage, avec ses propres mots, son expérience face aux défis du conflit et sa résilience à travers l’agriculture. / In the video, Nyiramugisha Viviane, a peanut farmer from Rutshuru in North Kivu, shares her daily reality. She speaks about the fear of going to the fields amid insecurity, the sound of gunfire, and the risks of violence. Despite everything, she continues to cultivate the land because it allows her to feed her family and keep hope alive. Through her story, she shows how courage and resilience can grow even in times of conflict.
Where Voices Grow From the Soil
In communities where survival means cutting down trees, we chose to offer alternatives instead. From transforming agricultural waste into cooking briquettes to turning plastics into interlocks and creating natural probiotics for healthy soils, our work empowers families to live sustainably. This story isn’t just about climate it’s about people, resilience, and the power of local innovation shaping a greener, fairer future for all.
Eating Away at the Land: The Lives of Local and Indigenous Communities in the Basoko Territory
In Basoko territory, in the heart of the Congo basin, local and indigenous communities are witnessing their land and rivers being poisoned by oil exploration and destructive logging. This story highlights how resource exploitation is threatening biodiversity, cultural heritage, and livelihoods, while amplifying the voices of those who resist. Through our podcast, Jambo Radio (a community and indigenous media) seeks to shed light on these silenced realities and spark global solidarity for climate justice, indigenous rights, and the protection of one of the world’s most vital ecosystems in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Narratives of Change: From the Lake Victoria's Shore to a Sustainable Future
Growing up on the shores of Lake Victoria, I saw the impacts of climate change firsthand. Driven by my love for the lake and my community, I embarked on a journey to combat environmental degradation. Now, through education, sustainable agriculture, and eco-friendly initiatives, I am working to restore the natural beauty and resilience of our ecosystem while empowering the next generation to be environmental stewards.
Doctor of Nature!
Have you ever imagined growing food from waste? We did it! We were capable of turning waste into potential material for sustainable agriculture while empowering the local rural community to mitigate and adapt to climate change effects, preserving the local natural resources, and protecting the environment despite all the challenges our country is facing.
Haven’t We Lost Half of Our Forest Cover in the Last Century? We Need Lose None No More
Let's not lose more than we stand to gain. Deforestation is causing extensive loss of our biodiversity, hunger and extreme poverty due to compromised rainfall patterns when trees that act as rainfall catchments in tropical forests are constantly cut down for commercial reasons. A bleak future awaits a generation which will not put in place accurate measures to denounce deforestation.
Wasteland Utilization for a Sustainable Environment
Feeding the Earth
The Sustainable Development Goal 2 - Zero Hunger - was set in 2015 to tackle rising undernourishment. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this challenge. Climate Change threatens food production and quality. WHYFARM, an NGO that uses creative methods to engage young people in agriculture, was founded in 2015 in Siparia, Trinidad and Tobago. It teaches traditional farming techniques that protect the environment and human health, and technologies that optimize production to establish careers in the field and promote food security.
Dearth of the Infinite
We all agree that food and water are necessary for our survival on earth, but what happens when we lack access to these basic things due to extreme weather events? what happens when we do not also know that this shortage in food and water is due to climate change? Find out how all of these is affecting the people of Dar Salam.
On the Way of Resilience With the Baobabs / Sur Le Chemin de la Résilience Avec Les Baobabs
The story’s setting is a village in the Menabe region of central-western Madagascar. Affectionately called “the Land of Baobabs”, it is also unfortunately the land of slash-and-burn agriculture. Tahina, an agronomist and forester, believes firmly that soil is the core ingredient of a resilient and sustainable relationship between the local communities and their landscape. He journeys to meet his friend Bendray, a farmer-ranger and together they launch an initiative called “Taniala Regenerative Camp”. This initiative contributes to the regeneration of soils and ecosystems through permaculture design, agroecology, agroforestry and ecological restoration.
Passion for Climate/ Biodiversity in Relation to Agriculture to End Hunger Crisis in Africa
Surviving the Environment Arena and Beyond: Maasai Mara Reserve
New reforms to education in Africa are transforming learning opportunities for the continent's youth, but learners still lack access to relevant skills that will help them secure employment opportunities. What can be done? I am passionate about science, one of the things about science that drew me to it is the fact it's about the discovery of knowledge. I believe that Africa, and especially Kenya, has all the resources that it needs to keep its people healthy, yet people are not enjoying the best health. One way that I believe I can solve that problem is by researching medicinal plants because I believe we have those resources we just need to find out the compounds in plants that we can utilize to keep ourselves healthy. Everything that we need to be healthy is provided to us by nature, we just have to tap through research and also by educating people on how to apply those principles and knowledge that we learned from research into being healthy. I envision a world where there is equality, quality education, improved health services for all, and good, effective and transformative leaders.