Durgapur Village Faces the Monsoon Flood of 2024 with a Better Approach
Author: Friendship, as part of the Reversing the Flow program. This blog is part of a dossier on locally-led adaptation, … Continued
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Locally-led adaptation: where do we stand?
David Mornout (MetaMeta), Joe Ray (RVO), Sandra van Soelen (Simavi), Tomi Haryadi (WRI Indonesia) This blog is part of a … Continued
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
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 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