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| Image downloads - Climate Frontline |
| Images below are available to download and reproduce free of charge for those seeking to publicise and promote the climate change challenge facing Africa's rural poor. |
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| | Climate Frontline - Cover artwork | | Climate Frontline seeks to lend a voice to ordinary African farm families, and show how they are already being required to cope and adapt to the effects of climate change. |
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| | Dry well in Eritrea | | Unseasonally hot and dry weather has meant that previously available water sources are dry for longer each year - as is witnessed here at a dry well in Eritrea that had previously been used by a farming community to irrigate local land. |
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| | Drip irrigation in Kenya | | Drip irrigation kits are utilised to optimise available water on small-holder farms. Water is stored in a drum or tank and is channeled directly to vegetable plants through perforated rubber tubing, thus ensuring that water reaches only the plants themselves, and not a drop is wasted. |
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| | Soil degradation in Ethiopia | | Overgrazing, baking heat and torrential rains all contribute to the washing away of top soil, which has made previously fertile farmland barren and unproductive. |
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| | Soil degradation in Ethiopia 2 | | A further example of how land use, baking heat and torrential rains all contribute to the washing away of top soil, which has made previously fertile farmland barren and unproductive. |
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| | Nursery planting in Uganda | | A wide range of tree seedlings are reared and distributed to support environmental rehabilitation efforts, provide firewood, and to provide a new source of family income (fruit trees, coffee, etc) |
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| | Watershed management group, Ethiopia | | The members of Fendisha watershed management group in Ethiopia's Eastern Highlands have built dams, restored gullies and planted tens of thousands of trees in an effort to restore a previously degraded valley. |
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| | Fuel efficient cooking stoves, Ethiopia | | Fuel efficient cooking stoves are made by women's co-operatives in Oromia, Ethiopia, and sold to generate income. The stoves require less fuelwood for cooking, and burn with less smoke in the home. |
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| | Rainwater harvesting pond, Ethiopia | | A dam wall has been built to capture and store water by a community in Sodo, Ethiopia. The pond provides drinking water for animals and for irrigation, and boreholes sunk nearby provide local sources of drinking water |
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| | Zai holes in West Africa | | Zai holes are an ancient technique used in West Africa to rehabilitate and restore fertility to degraded land. Holes are dug to a specified depth and dimension, and are filled with plant waste, compost and other materials to return fertility, and store moisture in the soil |
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| | Compost making, West Africa | | Farmers attend compost making demonstrations, and are shown a range of techniques that can be employed to ensure that fertility and moisture can be retained in their soil |
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| | Gulley erosion, Ethiopia | | Torrential rains wash away top soils and cut deep gullies in farmland in Oromia, Ethiopia. A range of measures are employed to rehabilite and restore land affected by such erosion. |
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