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Ana, an expert in building the fuel-efficient rocket stoves. She has helped install more than 150 of them for other families in her village, Kalinzi, Tanzania. JGI, 2016. One component of the overlap between Tacare practices and Roots & Shoots is the multi-generational education of improved sustainability practices. These slow combustion wood burning stoves reduce the amount of charcoal or firewood needed for cooking.
livelihood and then tap into it from there, try to improve it and build on what they are doing. There are a number of models for conservation agri- culture, and it’s proven to work very well.”
Returning to the topic of Roots & Shoots and its work in the schools, Japhet says, “I think we need to look at broadening that dimension. I can give an example of the village Zashe, one of the Greater Gombe Ecosys- tem villages. In 2002, we used to have Roots & Shoots groups in Zashe Primary School, so the children were learning about tree planting, the environment, etc. In 2012, 10 years later, the same children who were in school are now grown up and have their own families. They then began complaining to their parents. Their parents were engaged during the TACARE Land Use Plans and put aside some of their farms as protected