EDITORIAL POLICY

Ecoforum strives to achieve a healthier environment and a more sustainable world by focusing on the positive and negative activities of individuals and organizations and their effects on the environment. We lay emphasis on finding lasting homegrown solutions to everyday problems facing our environment. Our policy is that a healthy environment is attainable if we remain focused. We believe that our destiny is in our hands and a world where all co-exist in harmony with nature is not merely a dream.

AUDIENCE

Ecoforum is the voice of an ambitious, growing movement of people who have seen the future of East Africa, have invested in this vision and are working towards making it a reality. A growing network of switched on individuals and communities who are connecting through the ideas they find in our pages - the surgeon with a passion for conserving and rehabilitating forests; the retiree who started an organic farming project three years ago; the NGO project manager in Southern Sudan; the film documentaries interested in exploring new areas and issues for her projects... real people doing real things.

Readers are spread across the board and include directors, managers and programme staff of NGOs, donor organizations, UN offices, expatriates working in Kenya, volunteer organizations, religious organizations, academic institutions and community-based groups and concerned citizens. The distribution figures are 70% Kenya, 10% Uganda, 10% Tanzania and 10% International.

SUBSCRIPTION AND CIRCULATION

15,000 copies of the magazine are printed each quarter and distributed mainly by subscription in East Africa, Europe, Asia and America. The magazine is also available through Newsvendors and agencies in major urban centers of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. A recent survey established that at least 60,000 people read each issue of Ecoforum.

Recent Themes Covered

Ecoforum has covered a diverse range of themes. The most recent issue which rolled off the press highlights the ongoing debate surrounding Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO). Before then we had covered the drylands of Kenya, with specific focus on Prosopis juliflora, highlighting the controversies surrounding this weedy plant. We have also in the recent past covered issues of Unleaded Fuel Campaign, Waste Management, Water Conservation including Constructed Wetlands, The Environmental Management and Coordination Act (EMCA) in Kenya, The Mau and Karura Forest Excisions, Pollution of Lake Victoria, The Controversy around the Mara Conservancy, Organic Agriculture, Mining, the Marine Environment, etc. We plan to do a special feature on the options and opportunities provided by the new Forest Act in Kenya.