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| Presenting the 'resources map' prepared by the farmers. |
Asantewaa, Mathias and Alan, SUTROFOR 2nd year students currently at Bangor, attended a recent training course on the agroecological knowledge toolkit at Adama, Ethiopia. We learned plenty on local ecological and managemet knowledge, field participatory rapid appraisal techniques, the AKT software, and of course, Ethiopian cuisine =). We were joined by professionals from Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya and the U.K., a great group ready to put this new tool into practice.
To learn more about this, check out the AKT website lead by a team of researchers from Bangor University. Here are some pictures from the the Ejersa Joro kebele were we 'learned by doing'. Cheers.
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| Storing teff straw under the protection of acacias and live fence euphorbias. |
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| Trees need to be planted with heavy protection due to free-grazing livestock during the dry season. |
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| Cow dung patties used as fuel; in a drylands agroecosystem, biomass is a precious resource. |
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| Grazing dromedaries herded by another social group. |
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