This training video targets community forestry practitioners to improve gender equity on the ground. The video explains the concept of gender equity in the context of forest communities and highlights best practices for achieving gender equity.
Arguably one of the most successful land regeneration projects in the world, Farmer Managed Natural Regeneraton (FMNR), beginning in Niger during the 1980s, has revegetated three million hectares of arid land in that country alone - bringing back biodiversity in flora and fauna, increasing soil humus (and thus carbon) content, improving water retention and microclimates, and dramatically improving the health and viability of local communities. It is now practiced as well in Chad, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Mali.
Video of the presentation by Ann Koontz and Steven DuPuis, et al., on Wednesday May 12, 2010, at the USAID Information Center. Related PowerPoint, Tenure Brief #10, Web-Based and Green Marketing guidance tools, and eight Certified Wildlife Friendly(TM) Product/Company Brochures attached, and in Portal Library. Also see http://www.wildlifefriendly.org/
If you want to know how to grow crops in the face of climate change, drought, and land degradation, ask Ousséni Kindo, Ousséni Zoromé, or Yacouba Sawadogo—three farmers in Burkina Faso’s Yatenga region. Policy makers, researchers, and NGO representatives gathered earlier this year at a workshop in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to discuss strategies on combating food insecurity and adapting to climate change. Attendees at the event—organized by the group Network for Participatory Approaches to Research and Planning (Réseau MARP Burkina)—heard from several of Burkina Faso’s farmers on how they produce food on degraded lands. The farmers and participants provided interesting insights into climate-smart agriculture methods—including how to scale up these practices throughout the nation.
Video of Ten Years of Impact and Learning in USAID's Global Conservation Program in English, French and Spanish. (with and without subtitles)
Video on pioneering Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) project in Cambodia June 24, 2009.
Why is climate-smart agriculture important, and can it work? Watch this 3 minute trailer for an insight into what the challenges are, and where the solutions might lie. Originally produced to introduce the Learning Events section of Agriculture and Rural Development Day at the United Nations COP17 climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, Dec 2011.
Video of Ten Years of Impact and Learning in USAID's Global Conservation Program in English with subtitles.
Video of Ten Years of Impact and Learning in USAID's Global Conservation Program with French subtitles
Video of Ten Years of Impact and Learning in USAID's Global Conservation Program in Spanish.
Remarks by Dr. Rajiv Shah; Administrator, USAID
En dépit de la valeur des minéraux qu’ils collectent, les artisans miniers (du diamant) et leurs communautés vivent dans une pauvreté accablante.
This video details the problems faced by diamond miners working with alluvial diamonds in the Central African Republic, and the challenges of affirming property rights at the grass roots level. The video briefly summarizes the 8-step process PRADD developed to translate customary rights into statutory rights. The process combines community development techniques to identify, organize, and motivate miners with GPS devices to precisely locate the mining claims.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 05 March 2009 GOVERNMENT, ITA NIA RAI PROJECT PROMOTE LAND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Heather McGray, a WRI Senior Associate and climate adaptation expert, explains how to enable the rural poor to adapt to a changing climate. The livelihoods of the rural poor are rooted in the productivity of ecosystems. Climate change, however, is already altering the functioning of these ecosystems in profound—and often negative—ways. Over 2 billion rural inhabitants live on less than $2 per day. Helping these people to build their assets and incomes will bolster their resilience and adaptive capacity, enabling them to meet the challenges of climate change and ecosystem degradation without sinking deeper into poverty. In this video Heather McGray explains how to do it.
Residents of marginalized communities near beautiful national parks have always been confronted with a dilemma: how to feed their families without damaging Mother Nature. An innovative program called the Ethiopian Sustainable Tourism Alliance (ESTA) has provided villagers with solutions – and the results are remarkable, for the people and the parks. Villagers organize themselves into committees, identify tourism opportunities and create sustainable enterprises that benefit from these national and international travelers.
An update on Feed the Future implementation in the midst of the initiative's third year. Bruce McNamer and Amy Coughenour will discuss the early results coming out of some of the first projects funded by Feed the Future. Ms. Lona Stoll of USDA will discuss the main opportunities and challenges the U.S. Government has encountered during implementation so far.
At the 2014 Feed the Future Global Forum, Dennis Garrity, United Nations Drylands Ambassador and Former Executive Director of the World Agroforestry Centre, moderated a panel on the importance of addressing the current and future threats of climate change in current food security programs.
Farmers in parts of India are breaking growing records, using less seed, less water, and compost as fertiliser. This ground-breaking method of cultivation, developed in Madagascar, is boosting yields and changing lives for the farmers. Norman Uphoff, professor at Cornell University, explains how it is done
Forest Trends President Michael Jenkins has just delivered the opening address, where he traces the Katoomba Group's genesis to an inquiry he received from the Sydney Futures Exchange nearly a decade ago, when the exchange was contemplating the launch of carbon futures. That inquiry convinced Jenkins of the need to create a conduit through which diverse and disparate groups exploring the use of markets to preserve ecosystem values could communicate -- an exploration that today moves off the land, and into the sea.
