Ducks, Rice and Snails
Is the golden snail a pest or food? Depends who you ask. For rice growers it’s a pest but for duck farmers it’s a good, inexpensive feed. Can shuttling a flock of ducks to infected rice fields feed the ducks and reclaim rice paddies from this destructive snail?
Mary Jean Bulatao of the University of the Philippines Los Banos conceived this project

Radio: More Than Entertainment
Can airing opinions enable the Pygmies to have a say in what happens to their forest? A Pygmy community in Central Africa is getting radios and broadcasting equipment to take part in managing the forest and stay in touch with relatives wandering elsewhere there.
Scott Poynton of the Tropical Trust Fund worked on this idea.

Farming Tips from a Soap Opera
Thinking it’s the right and modern thing to do, Vietnamese rice farmers use too much pesticides and fertilizer. Can a radio soap opera about a farm family encourage farmers to change these environmentally unsound practices?
Monina Escalada of the International Rice Research Institute of the Philippines worked on the project.

Earn and Learn at the Hawkers Market
The future is bleak for orphaned girls who scavenge for food in heaps of garbage at Kenya’s Hawkers Market. Can learning about conservation and recycling help these girls escape slums and scavenging?
Wamuyu Mahinda of the Hawkers Market Girls Centre was behind this idea.

Turning to Mosques for Water
Water is scarce in Yemen. Forecasts say that the capital Sanaa could run out of water in 10 years. Conserving water is a must. So is looking for new ways to do that. Can reusing water from mosques to irrigate surrounding farms work?
Lia Sieghart of Yemen’s Ministry of Water and the Environment was behind the project.