Shrubs vs. Trees: The Better Choice for Watersheds in Dry Areas
By: Karim Nawaz In the global push to fight climate change, planting trees has become the go-to solution, celebrated for … Continued
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Rising Strong: Nargis Begum’s Journey of Resilience in the Coastal Chars of Bangladesh
By Nargis Begum, Dr. Shibly Sadik (Bangladesh Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands), Jannatul Naim In the ever-shifting landscapes … Continued
Rethinking the Baseline: Uttaran’s Community-Led Approach in Southwest Bangladesh
By Uttaran supported by Jannatul Naim This blog is part of a dossier on locally-led adaptation, featuring insights and lessons from the Reversing … Continued
Empowering Kenyan Communities to be more resilient through a Local Grantmaking model
By John Ole Tingoi (IMPACT NGO), Nancy Kadenyi, and Femke van Woesik This blog is part of a dossier on … Continued
Tiamamut, Kenya: A Community’s Path to Water and Self-Sufficiency
By Laura van Santen, IMPACT NGO, supported by Nancy Kadenyi This blog is part of a dossier on locally-led adaptation, featuring insights … Continued
How the Musul Community in Kenya Transforms Their Land
By Laura Dijkstra, IMPACT NGO, supported by Nancy Kadenyi This blog is part of a dossier on locally-led adaptation, featuring insights and … Continued
Social Trust as Accountability: Lessons from Gujimari Island, Bangladesh
By Shibly Sadik & Femke van Woesik This blog is part of a dossier on locally-led adaptation, featuring insights and lessons from … Continued
The Aqueduct of Willpower
By: Frank van Steenbergen To construct an aqueduct is a matter of both ingenuity and of will power: to get … Continued
Rodent Dynamics in Lebanon: First Insights and Community-Led Solutions
by Shadi El Indary, Farah Kamaleddine, Luwieke Bosma, Zeina Mahmoud, Emiliano Moussa Farming in Lebanon, similarly to wide areas of … Continued
From Flood to Field: Organized Farmers in Naj Gaj, Sindh
By Ashfaque Ahmed Soomro and Frank van Steenbergen Making earthen structures to divert and guide short term floods and irrigate … Continued
Deepening the spring
By Frank van Steenbergen As in many islands, Malta ever since it was inhabited was always dependent on springs and … Continued
Upscaling Community Managed Watershed Development Approach in Mainstreaming EBRM in Amhara Region: Lessons Learnt and Scaling approaches
by Getachew Engdayehu, Bantamlak Wondmnow, and Luwieke Bosma Background Despite severe problems—including substantial crop yield loss, damage to grazing grass, … Continued