Forestería en las tierras secas

FAO launches first e-Learning course to transform dryland management

29 March 2023
FAO has launched a new e-learning course that will inspire practitioners to champion transformational dryland forest management strategies, spearheaded by the Committee on Forestry’s Working Group on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems (COFO WG).  The Transforming Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems: An approach to sustaining and developing food production in drylands under [...]

Two promising cases of digital entrepreneurship empowering women in the forest sector

10 March 2023
Traditionally women play a vital role in the forest sector, often carrying out the lion’s share of foraging for food in forests and firewood collection. Now, women entrepreneurs are using technology to elevate women’s role in forestry, improve their livelihoods and empower communities of rural women. However, one of the challenges [...]

WeCaN Champion Fiorella Herrera: changing the world, one step at a time

08 March 2023
When Fiorella Herrera found a dead dolphin on a beach in 2013, it changed the course of her life forever. She knew there could be several reasons for it: the most likely being that it had been trapped in an illegal net and dragged ashore, or poisoned by mercury released [...]

COFO Working Group and International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026 collaborate on new Drylands Summer School

20 February 2023
The Committee on Forestry (COFO) Working Group on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems (WG) has announced the dates of the first Drylands Summer School, in collaboration with the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) 2026. At the 26th Session of the Committee on Forestry in 2022, the COFO WG was [...]

WeCaN indigenous woman champion Jane Meriwas: How an inheritance of two goats drove the fight against discrimination and harmful cultural practices

17 February 2023
“At ten years old I went to school by chance. My father disagreed with the education opportunity proposed by a Catholic mission nearby my village, and he considered me useless. He recommended marrying me off as soon as possible.”  This was the harsh reality for Jane Meriwas. Eventually, she attended [...]

Three things the FAO Jordan office learned from MEV-CAM – and how these skills can be applied

31 January 2023
In November 2022, the ‘Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management’ (MEV-CAM) initiative kicked off its regional knowledge exchange with a visit to Amman, Jordan.  MEV-CAM conducted a 10-day training for the FAO Jordan office, working alongside the “Enhancing resilient livelihoods and food security of host communities and Syrian refugees [...]

MEV-CAM and InsightShare's Journey to PV: the trainings conclude!

19 January 2023
The ‘Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management’ Initiative has been collaborating with InsightShare over the course of 2022 to train and mentor carefully selected participants on participatory video (PV), how it is used, and what sets it apart from traditional Monitoring and Evaluation reporting.  Beginning in February 2022, InsightShare [...]

MEV-CAM and DSL-IP make progress in Malawi

04 January 2023
The "Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management" (MEV-CAM) Initiative alters the way South-South knowledge management is approached by using local and indigenous knowledge to restore degraded drylands with more sustainable practices. By empowering communities and stakeholders to demonstrate their skills, express their challenges, and share successes, the most significant [...]

Update: WeCaN and MEV-CAM collaborate to further South-South knowledge exchange

23 December 2022
The last three months have been busy for the WeCaN Nurturing Community of Knowledge Practice for Women in dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral systems! We have held several training sessions and webinars to engage the WeCaN community and broader public on dryland resilience issues and facilitate South-South knowledge exchange. WeCaN held a [...]

Looking at MEV-CAM through a Gender Lens

23 December 2022
The “Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management” initiative is an innovative approach that uses participatory methods of engagement to give a voice to community members and stakeholders alike, while documenting best practices and methods of change to share with other like-minded individuals. Being participatory involves using firsthand evidence from [...]