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Join us at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) 2022 for the Expert Panel 12 - Beyond Policy Change: using the VGGT to secure tenure rights for farmers!

21 January 2022

Location: Livestream on the GFFA website (https://www.gffa-berlin.de/en/). If you want to participate actively in the Global Forum on Food & Agriculture and receive information about all events, please register here: https://2022.gffa-berlin.de/#signup.html?

Languages: German, English, French

Organised by: FAO, GIZ, International Land Coalition (ILC) and Welthungerhilfe

 

Loss and Damage: Erosion of Nepal’s Life, Land and Beauty Is Deep and Irreparable

19 January 2022

Life-threatening floods from bursting glacial lakes are just one of the many impacts of climate change that are leaving the people of Nepal unable to cope. Guest blogger Shreya K.C. calls on world leaders to replace fake handshakes with concrete action.




Main photo: Sikles village, in Kaski district, Nepal (Photo: copyright Maila Dai)


The world’s food systems are in crisis, and big agribusiness is at its heart

19 January 2022

Public finance has a key role to play in agriculture. Instead of propping up corporate interests, it should learn from local producers


 


19 January 2022, 3.13pm



Public funds are being used to expand industrial livestock production – a sector that dramatically increases methane emissions, deforestation, and pollution


Consultancy for Human Rights Work at Global Canopy

18 January 2022

Global Canopy (GC) is a data-driven not for profit that targets the market forces destroying nature. We do this by improving transparency and accountability. We provide innovative open-access data, clear metrics, and actionable insights to leading companies, financial institutions, governments and campaigning organisations worldwide. Global Canopy is moving through a period of organisational growth and development and has identified a need to focus greater attention on the human rights aspects of our work.

Gorongosa National Park featured as a successful public-private partnership model in new World Bank report

18 January 2022

 

 

 

A landmark new resource guide and toolkit from the World Bank and the Global Wildlife Program (funded by The Global Environment Facility) features Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park as a successful case study and model of a “Collaborative Management Partnership” – a public-private agreement set up to manage conservation areas and support sustainable, inclusive development.