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Home > Activities
All
RAE activities are based on the continual interface
between social and environmental factors. Activities are
inherently interlinked, and change in relation to varying
circumstances. The flexibility in RAE's long term
programme, and capacity to adapt its multiple activities to
changing local conditions, is crucial to its overall
success. A few examples are given in brief
below.
Effective
reclamation methods and techniques for different dryland
eco-zones would not be sustained without effective management and utilisation.
Sustainable
management is only practiced by men and women if income
is generated and profits are
realised, while at the same time profits are only
realised if land is managed on a sustainable
basis. The careful research, monitoring and
evaluation by RAE personnel of reclaimed areas provides the community with tools necessary to
sustain their improved resources, while providing RAE
with information necessary to
constantly improve its dryland strategies. Training
activities are interactive, with the dissemination and transfer of knowledge, based
on lessons learnt, crucial to the building of
partnerships and the future expansion of the RAE
programme.
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RAE's Major Areas of Activity
- • Land Reclamation:
community-based field selection, methods
and techniques.
- • Sustainable Community Management:
private and communal fields, expansion and
land reform issues
- • Generating Income, Improving Livelihoods:
diverse income generating
activities, loans and banking
- • Women as Dryland Managers: women
and women's group's as managers and
beneficiaries, the
RAE Clinic
- • Training and Transference of Knowledge:
exchange tours, monitoring and evaluation,
seminars and events
- • Research and Collaborative
Partnerships: social and environmental
research, schools, Universities and
partners
- • Dissemination and Publication of
Results: material and publications
produced by RAE, publications about
RAE
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A woman harvests grass seed,
generating income for herself and her family
Healthy cattle on reclaimed
land
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