Data or dialogue: how to do a baseline?
Reflections by IMPACT (Peter Lengurnet), Musul Community Land (Jackson Nkaiduri), and MetaMeta (Femke van Woesik, Esmee Mulder, Frank van Steenbergen) … Continued
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Formal or functional? Can committees work?
By Esmee Mulder (MetaMeta) This blog is part of a dossier on locally-led adaptation, featuring insights and lessons from the … Continued
Communications and coalitions
By Frank van Steenbergen & Femke van Woesik This blog is part of a dossier on locally-led adaptation, featuring insights and … Continued
Sustainable landscape rehabilitation: The establishment of Watershed User’s Cooperatives
By Bantamlak Wondmnow & Femke van Woesik In Ethiopia there are many succesful stories of rehabilitated watersheds through large scale … Continued
Examples of management of the commons by communities in rural India
By Shubham Jain (MetaMeta), Marijn van der Meer (MetaMeta), & Femke van Woesik (MetaMeta) Common pool resources, popularly known as … Continued
Much to see
Here is picture from Basurabad, Polder 29, coastal Bangladesh. There is much to see in the picture. First (1) the … Continued
More crop per drop: Farmer-learning and the promise of improved water use in agriculture
More crop per drop: Farmer-learning and the promise of improved water use in agriculture By Frank van Steenbergen and Petra … Continued
Why the Government’s Roadside Tree Plantations programme is important for Bangladesh
Andrew Zakharenka, World Bank, Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Global Practice April 22, 2021 Bangladesh Forest Department, recognizing the … Continued
The power of peers: self-evolving institutions in action
Posted by Rajeshwar Mishra and Frank van Steenbergen November 8, 2016 (Members of the North Bengal Terai Women’s Federation, a … Continued
Kingdoms of Spate
Like in other Kingdoms of the world, the Raya-valley farmers have their own rulers, the Kings of Spate. These … Continued
Misfits: Water Practices during a Water Crisis
by Madiha al-Junaid August 11, 2015 In a previous blog, a gardener was observed watering the plants at the airport … Continued