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
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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 Bangladesh Forest Department, recognizing the importance of local … Continued
Catching, profiting from locusts as an effective response to outbreaks
In January 2020, the Pakistan Ministry of National Food Security was faced with a new challenge. Swarms of locusts had … Continued
Locust attacks in Pakistan
by Karim Nawaz, Flood-based Livelihoods Network Pakistan May 28, 2020 The earliest wave of locust swarm attacks was reported in … Continued
Locust threat averted in Sindh, Pakistan
Locust threat averted in Sindh, Pakistan By Gulsher Panhwer, Research and Development Foundation (RDF), Flood Based Livelihoods Network (FBLN ) … Continued
Locust in Yemen: a plague or an opportunity?
Yemen, war, Cholera outbreaks, malnutrition, poverty, secession, and locust outbreaks are the keywords in all the talks about Yemen currently. … 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