Medicine
Bio-toilets: Transforming Indian Sanitation
This article describes how a social enterprise is helping to eradicate the malaise of open defecation by providing eco-friendly bio-toilets (or bioloos).
Community-based dengue fever prevention in Vietnam
Among vector-borne diseases that are sensitive to climatic and weather conditions, dengue fever is being seen as one of the...
Coffee farming on the slopes of Mount Elgon: Increasing resilience to climate change, Eastern Uganda
Gumutindo Coffee Cooperative is an organisation of smallholder coffee farmers who produce washed Arabica for the speciality coffee market and...
Costing and Planning Agriculture’s Adaptation to Climate Change: Small-holder Coffee Cash Cropping in Rwanda
The ability of the Rwandan coffee sector to compete in the global market by producing the highest quality of coffee...
Building Capacity in Vulnerable Mountain Regions
Climate change effects can also provoke an emergence and expansion of vector transmissible diseases such as Malaria and Chagas. To evaluate this situation and find possible preventive measures, two vulnerable semi-arid mountainous regions in Bolivia were selected as case studies: the Lake Titicaca region and the region of Vallegrande.