This participatory video titled 'The Environment is Life' was filmed and produced by a group of 11 members from Mwangoi and Malindi villages Lushoto District, Tanzania. With this video, they want to communicate the message 'people should conserve and protect the environment so that they live a good and healthy life'. Through the film they demonstrate how they protect the environment, improve their yields, and the systems they use.

Interannual variation in rainfall throughout Tamil Nadu has been causing frequent and noticeable land use changes despite the rapid development in groundwater irrigation. Identifying periodically water-stressed areas is the first and crucial step to minimizing negative effects on crop production. Such analysis must be conducted at the basin level as it is an independent water accounting unit.

 Durante tres años se establecieron en un Andisol del municipio de Somotillo (Nicaragua) los sistemas

de usos de tierra: tradicional del productor (tala, quema, fertilización y siembra de maíz + fríjol);

agroforestal Quesungual (SAQ) (no quema, árboles nativos en regeneración natural y siembra de

maíz + fríjol); residuos de cultivos (manejo de cobertura con residuos de cultivos); y testigo bosque

secundario (tacotal) de aproximadamente cinco años de edad no cultivado. Se hicieron muestreos de