Dryland Forestry

The Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management (MEV-CAM) Initiative's Module C What is the key message?

09 August 2022
“Scaling Out, Scaling Up and Scaling Deep” consists of a series of strategies directed at helping brilliant initiatives aimed at solving the most pressing and complex social and ecological problems by expanding their positive impact on systems. Scaling up targets laws and policy, scaling out looks to impacting greater numbers [...]

Effectiveness and failures of gender responsive climate policy in action

29 July 2022
Third WeCaN enrichment session equips members with insights to advocate at UNFCCC CoP27 WeCaN members completed their third virtual enrichment session on "Gender justice at the centre of the UNFCCC CoP27. Advocacy opportunities for youth and women led organizations” in the series "Women leadership and advocacy actions in climate change negotiations” [...]

WeCaN woman champion Dhana Maya Adhikari: An idea that started while typing a document

14 July 2022
It all started when Dhana was in her early twenties at the computer institute for which she worked. One day she was tasked with typing out a document related to an organization which occupied itself with sending poor children to schools. While Dhana was writing, she became more and more [...]

New FAO e-learning course on building climate-resilient dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral systems is in the works

08 July 2022
FAO is set to launch a new e-learning course, designed to raise awareness of the impacts, and causes of forest degradation in drylands areas, and increase knowledge on the management of climate-resilient dryland food production systems through Sustainable Forest management (SFM). The e-learning course, set to be launched in December 2022, [...]

MEV-CAM and the power of sharing experiences

30 June 2022
The ‘Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management’ (MEV-CAM) initiative has kicked off the next part of its training, a series of sessions known as “Case Clinics” and “Peer-to-Peer Sharing Events". These will help trainees share the knowledge captured from the ground, learn from others’ experiences and consequently upscale practices [...]

New policy paper on humanitarian-development-peace nexus moves closer to publication after workshop sparks lively debate

29 June 2022
FAO held a virtual workshop today to discuss the complex relationship between conflict, food security and climate change, ahead of the release of a policy paper on the topic in August. The workshop, organised by FAO’s Dryland Forestry team, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and CARE International, brought [...]

By sharing our knowledge, experiences and support, we can stand up to drought

17 June 2022
It’s that time of year again! FAO’s Dryland Forestry and South-South and Triangular Cooperation teams have joined together with UNCCD in honour of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. This year, the day focused on an important topic: ‘Rising up from drought together’.  Droughts are among the greatest [...]

WeCaN woman champion Dunia Baroud El-Khoury: From newlywed to WeCaN representative at the UNCCD CoP15 2022

09 June 2022
Dunia Baroud El-Khoury has just returned to her home in Lebanon after representing WeCaN at the UNCCD 15th Conference of the Parties (CoP) in Abidjian, Côte d’ivoire. Over the span of thirty years, Dunia has cultivated the project WADA, in Deir El Ahmar, which caught the attention of FAO's WeCaN [...]

Latest FAO technical report on drylands livestock moves closer to publication

02 June 2022
FAO’s technical report on silvopastoralism moved another step towards its launch this week, after the advisory committee held their third meeting to finalize key findings and recommendations.  The technical paper, entitled “Grazing with trees”, focuses on the role of livestock in restoring and managing drylands, forests and silvopastoral systems, following the [...]

Voicing Women and Civil Society – WeCaN's journey at UNCCD COP 15

16 May 2022
Women must join forces and fight desertification: that is the key message from Dunia Baroud El-Khoury, a member of FAO’s WeCaN initiative, at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification’s (UNCCD) COP15 in Abidjan. Dunia spoke on behalf of Civil Society Organizations, including her own - the Women’s Association of Deir [...]