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Terence Jagger Biography Terence Jagger spent his early career with Shell, American Express, Burmah Oil and Unigate. After a Masters degree in Finance, he joined the Civil Service in 1995, where he worked in the Ministry of Defence until 2011. His roles included managing the PFI programme, leading the QinetiQ privatisation, Director Financial Management, and Political Advisor to the NATO commander in Afghanistan (2006-2007). From 2011 to 2015 he was Chief Executive of Crown Agents, the inte...

Chris Packham, Joanna Lumley and Zoe Wanamaker are among high-profile names supporting a campaign by Tree Aid.

+ Over 60 female agricultural extension volunteers in the Sissala East and the Wa East Districts have benefitted from a three-day zonal-based sensitization on agricultural extension services. It was organized concurrently for selected women farmers in Tumu and Bugubelle in the Upper West Region. Madam Felicia Juabie Munkaila, a Project Officer of the Northern Ghana Integrated Development Project (NGIDP) with ActionAid in a welcome address, said the project was a four-year project funded by the ...

Advocacy/Communications Job in UK about Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment and Education, requiring 3-4 years of experience, from Tree Aid; closing on 08 Mar 2021

Can the ‘Great Green Wall’ carry out Sankara’s ecological, pan-African dream? 937 shares 17/01/2021 - 18:03 Women build dikes to hold water in a drought-prone area of eastern Burkina Faso. © Raphaël de Bengy, AFP 13 min Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso’s folk-hero president, once marshalled a nation to halt the spread of the Sahara. Decades after his brutal death, a pan-African project of e...

KIND-HEARTED youngsters have made a tree-mendous effort to support a scheme to see thousands of trees planted in North Africa. Pupils at Belhaven Hill School took part in a sponsored walk along the Dunbar coastline to support Tree Aid’s Great Green Wall. The charity is planting an 8,000-kilometre wall of trees across North Africa to stop the spread of the Sahara Desert and to create a tapestry of green, productive land. Pupils aged six to 13, along with staff, pulled on their walking ...