Innovation for Sustainable Development: Local Case Studies from Africa

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Publisher: United Nations
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 61
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Africa faces daunting sustainable development challenges in coming decades, but also significant opportunities. The period since the beginning of this new millennium has been one of the strongest economic performance on the continent. This volume aims to highlight many exciting innovations for sustainable development in Africa at the local level. It also begins to assess the scope of scaling up these innovations to make an impact on a larger scale. The preparation of this volume is the result of a fruitful dialogue and interaction between the UN Secretariat and practitioners in the field in Africa.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 4
Foreword......Page 6
Acknowledgement......Page 5
Introduction......Page 7
I. Enhancement of Agriculture & Fisheries......Page 9
Honey Care Africa Limited, Kenya: Fighting Poverty with Honey......Page 11
Village of Andavadoaka, Madagascar: Marine Reserves for Octopus......Page 15
II. Water Management......Page 19
Lufumbu Village Water Project, Tanzania: Offsetting Shortage in Water Infrastructure......Page 21
Restoring Kafue Flats, Zambia: Preserving Biodiversity through Water Management......Page 25
III. Protection of Ecosystems......Page 29
Bushbuck Ridge Project, South Africa: Working for Wetlands......Page 31
Cows to Kilowatts, Nigeria: Turning Waste into Energy and Fertiliser......Page 35
IV. Health Improvement......Page 39
Microcare, Uganda: Financing Health through Communities......Page 41
TRACnet, Rwanda: Fighting Pandemics through Information Technology......Page 45
V. Sustainable Tourism......Page 49
Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone: Building Tourism on Traditional Knowledge......Page 51
Buhoma Village, Uganda: Creating New Trails in Ecotourism......Page 55
Photo Credits......Page 59
References......Page 60

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