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Beekeeping revives forests, land in Zimbabwe
3 February 2023
From Zimbabwe, Nhau Mangirazi tells the story of how beekeeping revives forest in the Hurungwe district, published by The Standard. Apiculture not only preserves the forest from tobacco farming – the main cause of deforestation in the area – and serves as a bio-fence acting as a buffer zone…
From Japan to Brazil: Reforesting the Amazon with the Miyawaki method
3 February 2023
Reforestation using the Miyawaki method seeks to restore nature to its original state with results that can be seen in around six years. Miyawaki works around three concepts: trees should be native, several species should be randomly planted, and the materials for the seedlings and the soil should…
How much of Bangladesh’s protected forests are really protected?
17 January 2023
A move last year by the Bangladesh government to erase protections for a swath of reserved forest and award it to the country’s soccer federation for a training facility garnered outrage — but is only one example of how protected forests across the country continue to be degraded.
Projects
Harapan Rainforest - Pilot Restoration of a Degraded Forest Ecosystem on Sumatra
Durationaab: October 2009 - December 2013
Value: $20,000,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
By maintaining and protecting 101,000 ha of rainforest in the provinces of Jambi and South Sumatra, the first areas to be designated for ecosystem restoration in Indonesia, some 15.2 million tonnes of CO2 are to be securely stored over a 30-year period to serve as a model for how inactive production
Climate protection through forest conservation in Pacific Island States
Durationaab: December 2010 - March 2015
Value: $7,200,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
The project aims to preserve forest ecosystems in the Pacific and thus contribute to climate change mitigation. To this end it is supporting three island states in creating the conditions necessary for par-ticipation in an international financing mechanism for reducing emissions from the forest sect
Protecting Tropical Forests in the Guiana Shield Ecological Region
Durationaab: October 2009 - December 2013
Value: $5,200,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
The project targets efforts to preserve the largest contiguous tropical forest complex in the world in three countries with areas located within the so-called Guiana Shield (Guyana, Surinam and Brazil). To this end, the project supports comprehensive conservation area management in the Brazilian sta
Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use
Durationaab: December 2014 - December 2023
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To support public-private partnerships that demonstrate how companies, communities, smallholders and governments can work collaboratively to reduce deforestation and benefit forest dependent communities. Land is one component of this programme.
Co-management Amazon Peru
Durationaab: January 2013 - June 2017
Value: $2,500,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
The effects of climate change and the advanced deforestation in the Amazon region pose a threat to the livelihood of the local population and biodiversity. Protection efforts in communal reserves have had little success to date because the indigenous communities were not involved in the protection m
Forest protection and the management of natural resources in Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru
Durationaab: November 2012 - October 2017
Value: $3,373,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
The purpose of the project is to conserve natural resources in Peru's Manu Biosphere Reserve, home to a unique and rich biological diversity. To this end, it assists the local population in managing natural resources. Measures include: utilisation agreements, development and dissemination of environ
Journalism project highlights solutions to land and environmental challenges
3 February 2023
One year ago, thanks to a Solutions Journalism Network LEDE Fellowship and in collaboration with the Land Portal, I started a project to find stories of responses to the damage caused to the land and environment. During this time, I affirmed that communities and people around the world are working…
CFS Side Event: How the VGGT have changed rural women's lives: Key strategies and innovations towards gender equality
15 October 2019
The purpose of the side event is to showcase key strategies and innovations that are contributing to gender equality in agriculture and land tenure in the context of the VGGT. It will present how collaboration among different stakeholders at national, regional and global level can support the…
