Environment

Africare's work to conserve the environment takes as its premise that ― with innovation, organization and infrastructural development ― Africans can reach, not just a truce, but a mutually sustainable relationship with their natural surroundings. Most of Africare's work in areas such as food security, water and microenterprise include some form of natural resource management. Africare also supports focused environmental work, such as:

  • Reforestation
  • Woodlot and tree nursery establishment
  • Agroforestry
  • Prevention of soil erosion
  • Enhancement of soil fertility
  • Crop rotation
  • Management of livestock grazing
  • Provision of environmentally friendly technologies: fuel-efficient wood stoves, for example
  • Use of alternative energy sources, such as solar and wind power
  • Water resource development
  • Efficient capture and use of limited water supplies
  • Protection and improvement of the water catchment function of forest watersheds
  • Protection and improvement of flora and fauna biodiversity

 

(Updated, Dec. 17, 2007)