Many refugees experience the painful scattering of families – often with no means of being able to track down family members. Now REUNITE, an online platform that mainly works through mobile texts, is offering help. Those searching can register their details for free, which are added to a database of 400,000 individuals. Available in Amharic, English, French, Somali, Sudanese, Arabic and Swahili, and easy to use, it is bringing about some joyful reunions.
Plucking coffee, protecting the forest. Peruvian farmers use agroforestry practices by integrating cash crops – such as banana, coffee and yucca – with local trees, which help protect the plants and prevent soil erosion. A far cry from the slash-and-burn farming previously practised for coffee which led to mountainside destruction here. Using organic manure and pest management, farmers increased production by 33 per cent within a year.
