In Madagascar, calls for urgent action to safeguard its rapidly disappearing native forests are growing. Madagascar has made a commitment under the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100 Initiative) to restore 4 million hectares (ha) of forest landscape by 2030. The F4F initiative, now celebrating its second anniversary, is supporting the...

The declining soil fertility coupled with the climate change and erratic rainfall patterns has become major challenge to smallholder framers. But restoring soil health using microbial technologies and agroecological practices is possible. Farmers from Ghana are being trained to produce organic fertilizers at lower cost compared to other conventional fertilizers on the market.

Varios países se comprometieron a apoyar con financiación directa a los pueblos nativos durante la última cumbre del clima, en noviembre del año pasado. Sin embargo, falta tratarlos como socios paritarios.

To realize the COP 26 pledge to spend USD 1.7 billion between 2021 and 2025 to protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples and forest communities to tenure of their ancestral land and support them as guardians of the world’s forests, funds need to be channeled directly to...

Indigenous 'Chepang' women in Nepa increased their income by adding value to wild-crafted Chiuri (Diploknema butyracea or the 'Indian Butter Tree') fruit to produce butter. Read the story.