Environmental Education and Communications

SCALE - System-wide Collaborative Action for Livelihoods and the Environment — by GreenCOM (USAID) — last modified 2007-07-02 13:01

SCALE—System-wide Collaborative Action for Livelihoods and the Environment—is an approach for broadening development impact. By providing a framework to achieve widespread change, SCALE can help improve people’s livelihoods and quality of life by helping them manage their natural resources in a sustainable way. SCALE has evolved from more than a decade of work by GreenCOM, a U.S. Agency for International Development global environmental communication program. GreenCOM has had the unique opportunity of working with people in more than thirty countries around the world to address an extensive range of issues including: 􀂄 Natural resource management (coastal, forest, watershed); - Biodiversity conservation; - Ecotourism; - Sustainable agriculture; - Water and energy efficiency; - Clean production; and- Solid waste management.

World Ag Info Project — by Rose Hessmiller — last modified 2008-03-17 17:43

Building human and institutional capacity … is fundamental to long-term social transformation in Africa and South East Asia. Access to information and the ability to share knowledge are key elements underpinning the transformation process. In agriculture, the effectiveness of education and extension systems has been hindered by both lack of access to high-quality information and dependence on a top-down model that has undervalued non-traditional sources of expertise. New information and communication technologies, though, are creating unprecedented opportunities. Critical work lies ahead in understanding the potential benefits and limitations of these technologies, and how they interface with other elements of knowledge, education, and information systems.