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Could your family manage for three days without access to shops, electricity or running water? When a cyclone, flood or other disaster strikes, everyday services can quickly become unavailable. Roads may be blocked, shops may close, electricity may be interrupted and access to clean drinking... The post Build a 72-Hour Emergency Kit for Your Family first appeared on MORDI Tonga.

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El Niño is a natural climate phenomenon that can change rainfall and temperature patterns across the Pacific. For Tonga, it can mean longer dry periods, reduced rainfall, water shortages and increased pressure on home gardens, crops and household food supplies. It can also influence tropical... The post Preparing for El Niño in Tonga: Practical Steps to Protect Our Water, Food and Families first a

See what happens when we give the soil enough time to absorb rainwater 🌧️ This landscape in Kuku, Chyulu, #Kenya 🇰🇪 has transformed amazingly in just half a year, thanks to Earth Smiles. Before restoration, heavy rain can quickly run off through gullies and eroded waterways, carrying water away before it has time to soak into the soil. #EarthSmiles help slow this runoff down, giving water more

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Thousands of Seeds Deposited in Svalbard as Global Cooperation Safeguards Food Security On the last seed deposit of 2026, genebanks from around the world deposited thousands of seed samples in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, demonstrating how international cooperation helps protect the future of food. Ukraine’s national genebank and six international genebanks of the CGIAR…

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From 2024 to 2026, this Grass Seed Bank in Kuku has been changing year by year. 🌱 What started as a sparse patch of land is becoming a productive source of native grass seed, with Earth Smiles helping to slow down rainwater and create better conditions for grasses to grow. Watch the transformation and see how the grasses establish and spread across the site over time. Maasai women groups manage G

For the people taking part in FoodForward SA’s Food Gardens Connect Programme, the gardens are becoming much more than places to grow vegetables. They are providing access to food, creating opportunities to work and learn, and giving participants a greater sense of purpose and connection to their communities. Before joining the programme, Andiswa was unemployed […]

Food loss and waste is more than a food security issue. It is also a climate issue. Globally, reducing food loss and waste has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions while improving food security. When food ends up in landfill, it produces methane as it decomposes, adding to the climate impact of food […]

Bangkok, 17 September 2026 – One hundred and forty-six people’s organisations and non-governmental organisations have jointly submitted an open letter to political leaders and to Parliament, calling on them to monitor, scrutinise and press the government and the Thai negotiating team on the Thailand–European Union Free Trade Agreement (Thailand–EU FTA) to place the public interest […] The post 146

Digging here in Esilalei, #Tanzania, started in 2021, and rainy season after rainy season, the vegetation kept expanding a little more. What were once empty bunds started filling with vegetation, and now, once the rains come, they almost disappear under the vegetation cover. Isn’t that incredible?! Thanks to the amazing work of the local community and implementing partners, more than 6,500 Earth S

Key points On 8 September 2026, in Courtroom 6 on the third floor of the Central Administrative Court on Chaeng Watthana Road, Bangkok, the court delivered its judgment in Black Case No. Sor. 14/2567 (2024), brought by 54 plaintiffs against the Department of Fisheries as first defendant and 17 other state bodies and officials — […] The post Administrative Court Orders Fisheries Department to Fix t

Written By: David Banda, SFHC Staff Figure 1: SFHC Team and Health Personnel Soils, Food and Healthy Communities (SFHC) conducted a practical training on Bokashi manure production for health personnel at the SFHC Farmer Research and Training Centre.... Read More

Written By: David Banda, SFHC Staff Knowledge exchange is at the heart of strengthening agroecology. On 24th July 2026, the Soils, Food and Healthy Communities (SFHC) team visited SCOPE Malawi in Lilongwe to learn from successful farmer-led initiatives... Read More

Putting Farmers first : Invest in small-scale farms in sub-saharan Africa. kevin_tum Tue, 25-08-2026 - 15:22 Invest in small-scale farms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Your donation makes a real difference $25 is enough to provide a full service bundle to a farmer for a year $40 is enough to deliver 1,140 tree seed kits and training to families in Kenya $110 is enough to insure 20 farmers against crop fai