A video from the WLE session at the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) which was co-hosted by IWMI and CIAT. The session looked at watershed level land restoration initiatives and discussed scale and indicators of success.
Dec 17, 2017-While migration is seen as a driver of economic upliftment for families, not everyone has been able to walk out of poverty even after migrating to overseas in search of better opportunities.
A recent study conducted among 170 rural households in Sunsari district has shown that nearly one third of migrant households remained poor despite migrating for jobs abroad.
Sylvia Wood and Sarah Jones from Bioversity International report on their new paper on linking ecosystem services to multiple dimensions of human well-being.
Scientists and government officials are collaborating with communities to test out new approaches to reversing land degradation—methods that might have potential to change the status of the entire highlands region from vastly degraded to successfully restored.
In collaboration with the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) and the Office of International Programs, College of Agricultural Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, UN-Habitat has launched a project for briquette production in Kalobeyei new refugee settlement and the host community in a commitment to improve access to cooking energy.
Land degradation is at the nexus of a vicious spiral which links low land productivity and biodiversity loss with poverty, hunger, instability and insecurity. Land degradation, for instance, releases carbon, worsening global climate change; it reduces crop yield, creating food insecurity; and it erodes livelihoods, driving migration. Under these conditions, instability can take hold, order can break down, and non-state armed groups can become established, leading in turn to impacts such as increases in wildlife poaching, deforestation and violence.
Where there’s muck, there’s brass, as the age-old saying goes. At the World Water Week in Stockholm, the International Water Management Institute launched 22 teasers offering an insight into its research into successful business models for turning wastes into money. Check out the original piece by Justin Dupré-Harbord on Thrive here.
