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CGIAR Consortium develops climate solutions with soils for food security (CGIAR - Consultative Group on ...

Edit Public Technologies 03 Dec 2015
(Source. CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research). PARIS (3rd December 2015) - At the U.N ... It forms part of the new '4 pour 1000' initiative, launched by France as part of the Lima-Paris Action Agenda, which seeks to raise the amount of carbon in soils ... More information ... The most promising results in agroforestry come from the integration of Faidherbia albida trees, an indigenous African acacia, with food crops ... ....

Africa Albida Raises U.S.$30 000 to Fight Poaching

Edit All Africa 23 Oct 2015
[Financial Gazette] Africa Albida Tourism has intensified the battle stop poaching in Zimbabwe ... ....

Tourism Industry Honours Albida Boss

Edit All Africa 27 Aug 2015
[Financial Gazette] AFRICA Albida Tourism (AAT) chief executive, Ross Kennedy, has won the Tourism Personality of the Year Award.... ....

Serra Cafema

Edit Huffington Post 26 Jun 2015
After five days exploring the depths of the desert, it was surreal to wake up to the smell of water. Outside, the Kunene River which separates northern Namibia from Angola, rushed westward at the foot of my private deck on its way to the Atlantic Ocean ... (The Kunene River separates Namibia (on the left) from Angola). Surrounding my villa, lush albida trees cloaked everything in dappled shade ... (My rustic-lux room (#6) at Serra Cafema)....

Learning Japanese from the news / Yokai Watch to be introduced overseas

Edit The Japan News 13 May 2015
Stay abreast of current events and learn Japanese at the same time through articles originally printed in The Yomiuri KODOMO Shimbun. ＝＝＝＝＝Speech妖怪（ようかい）ウォッチ 海外（かいがい）へ ゲームやアニメで人気の「妖怪（ようかい）ウォッチ」が、日本だけでなく、海外（かいがい）にも広（ひろ）がっていくことになりました。 ... 現在（げんざい）、開発（かいはつ）中のゲーム「妖怪ウォッチ３」では、舞台（ぶたい）が日本から外国（がいこく）のまちに移（うつ）ります。新（あら）たに、女の子の主人公（しゅじんこう）・未空（みそら）イナホや宇宙（うちゅう）人によく似（に）た妖怪「USA（うさ）ピョン」も登場（とうじょう）するそうです。 ... ＝＝＝＝＝Speech４月16日付読売 KODOMO 新聞に掲載された記事の翻訳です ... + - ... ....

Man orchid wilts in the heat of climate change while the ladies thrive

Edit The Daily Telegraph 28 Feb 2015
Climate change threatens to wipe out certain species of orchids, but it Is proving beneficial to others, a new study has found. Lady orchids are benefiting from drier summers and the rise in temperatures Photo. Alamy ... Comments ... Losers include more northern species, such as bog orchid (Hammarbya paludosa), coralroot (Corallorhiza trifid) and the small white orchid (Pseudorchis albida) – which is what you might expect.”....

Minister Backs Tourism Investments in Vic Falls

Edit All Africa 20 Dec 2014
[Financial Gazette]TOURISM and Hospitality Industry Minister Honourable Walter Mzembi has endorsed Africa Albida Tourism's investments in Victoria Falls as fitting his vision to boost infrastructure to vastly grow the tourist attraction's economy to $30 billion a year ... ....

Africa Albida Plans U.S.$18 Million Entertainment Park in Vic Falls

Edit All Africa 31 Oct 2014
[New Zimbabwe]AFRICA Albida Tourism (AAT) says it will build a historical and recreational park in the resort town of Victoria Falls at a cost of $18 million, the biggest private investment in the tourism hub for over a decade. ....

Regreening program to restore land across one-sixth of Ethiopia

Edit The Guardian 30 Oct 2014
Tree and shrub-planting program has transformed degraded and deforested land across Africa, with Ethiopia planning to restore a further 15m hectares by 2030. ‘The scale of restoration of degraded land in Tigray is possibly unmatched anywhere else in the world.’ Here Faidherbia albida and Acacia nilotica trees have been planted. Photograph. WRI ... Tigray is now much more food secure than it was 10 years ago ... The people ... Photograph ... ....

ATT Mulls U.S $18 Million Park in Vic Falls

Edit All Africa 23 Oct 2014
[The Herald]Hospitality group, Africa Albida Tourism, is working on construction of an $18 million education and entertainment park in Victoria Falls, expected to boost occupancies by 40 percent. ....

New Vic Falls Airport "A Game Changer"

Edit All Africa 04 Sep 2014
[Financial Gazette]THE new $150 million international airport at Victoria Falls will change the face of the region, a tourism industry leader says. Africa Albida Tourism chief executive Ross Kennedy said. "The Victoria Falls Airport is going to be a massive game changer, not only Zimbabwe, but for the region. "We will have a new airport capable of landing and handling, in all conditions, long haul wide body jets," Kennedy said. ....

Northwestern Namibia's Splendid Isolation

Edit Huffington Post 08 Aug 2014
The Bushmen called it "The Land God Made in Anger." The Skeleton Coast is all those things, but undeniably beautiful too ... Flying for three hours from either Namibia's capital city of Windhoek or the coastal resort town of Swakopmund is the only viable way to reach its string of nine stilted luxury villas shaded by Albida trees that hug the elevated southern bank of the mighty Kunene River ... If You Go ... ....

A Pathway to Nourishing the Future Is Found in Africa

Edit Huffington Post 17 Jun 2014
Life on earth hangs on a thin thread. The warming of the earth's climate is taking place in an atmospheric layer which makes up two-tenths of a percent of the radius of the planet ... On such margins do our lives and livelihoods depend ... Similar results have been achieved in the Horn of Africa and the Southern Africa region, where the legume tree known as Fadherbia albida is being used for soil fertility management ... ....
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