| Project to clear vegetation faces huge challenges |
| The idea behind LandCare is that local communities identify tasks that will benefit the environment in their own area and seek public funding to perform them. It began when farmers in the Australian state of Victoria in 1986 got together to plant trees on cleared land to hold back a rising water table and increasing salination. |
| By Communications Unit, Wednesday, August 06, 2008 |
| Ghana: Allanblackia - A New Link Between Rural Poverty Reduction and Forest Conservation |
| Thanks to the NOVELLA Africa Project, the Allanblackia plant has now gained the prominence it deserves, as an economic tree with great potential to reduce poverty, particularly in rural communities where it occurs. |
| By Ama Kudom-Agyemang; allAfrica.com, Friday, July 11, 2008 |
