Sustainable Agriculture
Send a Cow educates farmers in rural, semi-arid areas in Sub-Saharan Africa in the use of manure, and other soil and water conservation techniques, to get more out of their land and farm more sustainably, for example to plant trees rather than cut down forests to cultivate the land. A 2008 report by the charity stated that recent research in Uganda indicated that the ratio of carbon absorbed by trees and crops resulting from their programmes, to carbon emitted by the livestock provided by their programmes and the travelling done by their staff, was more than 2:1. Send a Cow's Bath,UK headquarters has been participating in the 10:10 campaign to cut emissions by 10% in 2010.
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