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Focal points from the Working Group on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems of the Committee on Forestry (COFO WG) and the Sustainable Forest Management Impact Program on Dryland Sustainable Landscapes (DSL-IP) held a meeting on Monday, to strengthen their collaboration and support activities in DSL-IP countries. The meeting was attended by [...]

Rome – Rapidly expanding cities in very dry parts of the world must be turned into "green urban oases" to ensure they become both healthier places to live in and more resilient to climate change, says a new report launched today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [...]

It has been a busy year for the Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management initiative: the last 12 months have seen the initiative expand its participatory approach to process documentation and development across 18 countries. As we begin to look towards 2023, MEV-CAM held a Forestry Technical Network webinar [...]

Applying the large-scale land restoration model devised by Action Against Desertification (AAD), the BRIDGES project (Boosting Restoration, Income, Development, Generating Ecosystem Services) has brought restoration up-to-scale in Kassala in eastern Sudan, a region bordering Ethiopia and Eritrea affected by drought and climate variations, which only receives less than 150 mm [...]

The UNFCCC 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27), held in Sharm el-Sheik in November, was a source of great pride for FAO’s WeCaN team, as we saw so many of our members getting the chance to represent civil society and make their voices heard on the international stage. Now that [...]

As the end of the year draws close, the COFO Working Group on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems are certainly not slowing down! Plans for 2023 are proceeding full steam ahead, including the e-Learning course, set to be launched in January 2023, and the Summer School running next summer. The COFO [...]

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 27th Conference of the Parties  (COP 27) is well underway in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, where world leaders, ministers, civil society organisations and industry professionals are all discussing one big issue: climate change. We are proud to say that several of our [...]

With 18% of total degraded land, Mauritania is the Sahelian country with the second highest rate of land degradation. The country is especially affected by the encroachment of moving sand, with severe impacts on people and the environment. At the same time, it also has a very high restoration potential: [...]

The United Nations has designated October 15th every year as Rural Women’s Day. This year, we want to highlight the importance of education for rural women, enabling them to safeguard biodiversity loss, protect natural resources and increase income-generating activities for their communities. In doing do, we improve not just the lives [...]

WeCaN’s members have benefited from an informative and useful training session conducted by Angela Ebeleke, one of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s National Gender & Climate Change Focal Points, designed to level up negotiation skills ahead of the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Twenty members took part in [...]