March 2007
Media Violence and Young Audience ( NGO Russian Association for Film and Media Education Survey)
From an analysis of the test Russian Teenagers and On-Screen Violence one may conclude that the influence of on-screen violence upon Russian teenagers is rather significant. About half the teenagers were positive about its demonstration: they enjoyed films, television shows, and computer games containing on-screen violence and they admired the characters - including "bad guys". A third of...
March 2007
Local voices, Global choices the Mocho Oral testimony project, Jamaica
“…When I was a young girl…you would know which month we would have rain, which month would be dry, so as a farmer you could prepare what you are going to plant. But things are different now everything has changed. The rainy month turned to drought, the dry month turned rainy, in the hot month a storm is blowing. Everything has changed.”-- Hazelyn, farmer and housewife, Mocho,...
March 2011
Pilot Project for the Installation of Domestic Biogas in Peri-Urban Zones of the city of Bamako
In Mali, approximately 92% of household and small industry energy needs are met with wood and charcoal. In peri-urban regions, where small farmers supply cities with food products, wood resources are especially over-exploited. Bamako, Mali’s capital, has doubled in size in the past 20 years, and has placed a huge strain on the wood resources of this area. Loss of vegetation cover, leading to desertification in a...
March 2007
Biodiversity Conservation of the Diaban basin: « Diaban Wula Lakana » (Sikasso Region, MALI).
The communities themselves are the greatest defenders of the environment when they perceive the responsibility of humans in its degradation and their interests in its protection. The survival of the fauna and flora of the Diaban stream basin, located in one of the last soudano-guinean forests still relatively intact, is under great threat. Forest clearing, overgrazing, brush fires, and excessive hunting have...
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