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The elusive people and the democracy of sand

30/05/2024, m.armanino

Where has the people gone in the Sahel countries? Are they the children, young people, and adults who filled the stadium a couple of times after the coup at the end of July last year?

Sicilian-made Irrigation for Agriculture in Africa

28/05/2024, Luca Iotti

Micro-irrigation represents a significant step forward compared to traditional methods, allowing for more efficient use of water and improving crop productivity while respecting the resources offered by the soil.

A che punto è la Grande Muraglia Verde dell’Africa contro la desertificazione

23/05/2024, Bambini nel Deserto

In the Sahel, where the sand dunes of the Sahara transition into arid savannah, 22 states have joined forces to address recurrent drought and encroaching desertification. Over the past decades, unregulated grazing and changes in precipitation patterns have heightened aridity along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. According to geographers' analyses, the Sahara now covers 10% more land than it did a century ago when measurements began.

Waiting for Mattei

20/05/2024, Luca Iotti

The recent three-day fair in Rome represented a unique opportunity for the meeting of Italian system actors, whom the Mattei Plan intends to involve, and an incubator of possible collaborations between institutions, enterprises, universities, and the third sector.

Radio Roma and Cinéma du Desert: The Cinema that Brings Hope

17/05/2024, Bambini nel Deserto

A big thank you to Silvia Corsi from Radio Roma, who discussed Cinéma du Desert and Bambini nel Deserto with Luca Iotti at Codeway Expo 2024. We present you with a video report: Cinema brings together both the young and the old, allowing them to travel through time and making even the most realistic individuals […]

Children in the Desert and Cinèma du Desert at Codeway Expo 2024

15/05/2024, Bambini nel Deserto

A Journey of 15 Years of Solidarity We are pleased to invite you to CodewayExpo 2024, scheduled at the Rome Fair from today to Friday 17 May; come and visit us in pavilion B, where Bambini nel Deserto and Cinèma du Desert will present fifteen years of expeditions in Europe, Africa and Asia through exciting […]

The three African shipwrecks of the West

05/05/2024, m.armanino

It is not just migrants or asylum seekers who are shipwrecked in the Mediterranean or the Atlantic, adding to the list of those missing in the waters that unite (and separate) the continents. What, perhaps less obviously but with no fewer consequences, are the shipwrecks of the European continent in Africa or, better, in the […]

Green Talks LIVE on water risks

02/05/2024, Redazione BnD

ROME 14 May 2024 / 3.00pm-4.00pm CEST Water is fundamental to meeting the commitments of the Paris Agreement and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Our economies depend on water, with recent estimates putting the economic value of water and freshwater ecosystems at $58 trillion, equivalent to 60% of global GDP. At the same time, water-related […]

The final resting place of Eto’o, an endless migrant

27/04/2024, m.armanino

He was familiarly called Eto'o by his traveling companions, like the well-known Cameroonian football player. He too, Feliciano, was originally from the same country and, in his own way, was famous in the field of migration