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Panamá prueba estrategias de reforestación para cumplir objetivo de restaurar 50 mil hectáreas de bosque

6 May 2022

Panama

COLÓN, Panamá — Hace aproximadamente 3 millones de años, salió del océano una masa terrestre y creó un istmo que conectó lo que ahora se conoce como América del Norte y del Sur. Hoy en día, el centro de ese puente de tierra es el país de Panamá, el cual presume de tener más diversidad de aves que cualquier otro país de América Central, pero cuyas selvas tropicales están sufriendo el impacto de la urbanización y la cría de ganado, lo que resulta en deforestación y contaminación del agua potable.

Central Asia’s poorest farmers know the value of their land

8 March 2023

Central Asia

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Uzbekistan

Farmland and pastures across Central Asia are far less productive after decades of monocropping

Indonesia’s mangrove restoration will run out of land well short of target, study warns

9 March 2023

Indonesia

Indonesia's mangrove restoration plan faces a major hurdle, with less than a third of the target area is actually viable for restoration.

NEA/GEF6 embarks on a massive tree planting exercise

16 September 2021

Gambia

Towards the restoration of the ecosystem, the National Environment Agency (NEA) in collaboration with its GEF6 project has embarked on a mass community-tree planting exercise within the project implementation community of Kolley Kunda village, Sami District, CRR.

Carbon credit plan meets flak

19 September 2022

Thailand

Thailand: Climate change strategy gives too much power to big corporations at the expense of local communities.

Communities look forward to reviving and commercialising private forests in Nepal

17 September 2022

Nepal

Most of the land where the private forests were located was sold. This then resulted in different issues as wood became scarce along with other forest resources.

Job vacancy: Support efforts to integrate land tenure into the implementation of LDN and land restoration initiatives

23 September 2022

Global

The UNCCD is looking for a consultant to support efforts to integrate land tenure into the implementation of land degradation neutrality and land restoration initiatives.

World “at a crossroads” in drought management, up 29% in a generation and worsening, says UN

11 May 2022

Global

Humanity is “at a crossroads” when it comes to managing drought and accelerating mitigation must be done “urgently, using every tool we can,” says a new report from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

A Farmer Transforms her Land in the Heart of the Great Green Wall

21 April 2022

Africa

Mali

Situated on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, Koulikoro, Mali is on the frontlines of a slow-moving environmental and humanitarian crisis. Extreme temperatures, extended periods of drought, and desertification are making it increasingly more difficult for farmers like Sitan Camara to make a living on their land.

UNCCD and WOCAT collaborate to improve SLM gender-responsiveness

23 May 2022

Global

Gender equality is a key entry-point for Sustainable Land Management (SLM) and UNCCD together with WOCAT are working to improve gender-responsiveness of SLM practices.

Outcry in Malaysia as failure to replant forests sparks ‘cover-up’ accusation

15 April 2022

Malaysia

Critics of a government plantation scheme have slammed the program following revelations that only a fraction of forest reserves cleared for plantations over the past decade have actually been replanted.

In a national park plagued by encroachers, Indonesia tries a new approach

9 March 2022

Indonesia

For years, people have settled illegally in national parks around Indonesia, clearing the land and farming it in the hope they will eventually be granted legal title to it.

Blogs

Equitably restoring landscapes and supporting land and natural resource tenure security: the importance of project design and planning

18 June 2021

Authors:

Dr. Matt Kandel

Sub-Saharan Africa

Landscape restoration creates opportunities for securing the land and natural resource rights of local land users as well for improving soil health, sequestering carbon, and enhancing biodiversity. In order to achieve synergies between these interrelated aims, restoration practitioners must carefully consider how projects are managed, particularly with regard to supporting equity in project design and planning—the focus of this blog.

Six tips for Africa’s restoration entrepreneurs

6 October 2020

Authors:

Ahtziri Gonzalez

Africa

How to get tree planting — and growing — right

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