Wednesday, 18 May 2016

This simple solution could help cut Benin's huge deforestation rate, and improve women's health (Busani Bafana, WEF)

Farmers walk through a paddy field towards a sugarcane field at Moynaguri village, about 66 km (41 miles) north of the eastern Indian city of Siliguri, August 19, 2009. India's monsoon rains have been 29 percent below normal since the beginning of the June-September season, hurting crops such as rice and cane and triggering a sharp rise in food prices in India and sugar futures abroad.

Naman Abibate's business is hard to miss. A towering pile of neatly arranged logs, collected by her husband from a forest near their village home, sits at the side of the busy Cotonou-to-Niger highway, north of Benin

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/this-simple-solution-could-help-cut-benins-huge-deforestation-rate-and-improve-womens-health
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