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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Meet Asha Elkarib, a women’s rights defender from the Sudanese Organization for Research and Development (SORD) and a focal point member for FAO’s WeCaN in Sudan. Talking from Sudan via WhatsApp last month, Asha was interviewed for the WeCaN April feature. Sudan is currently beset by political unrest and has been [...]

WeCaN members completed the first of a series of training sessions on Friday, designed to boost women’s leadership and advocacy at high-level climate change dialogues.  The first training session of the series focused on ‘Connecting the dots between Gender Equality, Women's Representation and Advocacy’. It was run by Ilaria Sisto, FAO [...]

The ‘Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management’ (MEV-CAM) initiative has launched into action, collecting important knowledge from communities on the ground in dryland areas.   Led by the Dryland Forestry team at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and funded by the South-South Triangle Cooperation program, MEV-CAM [...]

WeCaN Young Woman Champion for Sahel Region   Young activists are speaking out about the urgency of reducing carbon emissions, and they are leading change within their own communities. Indeed, for every young leader pictured on a magazine cover, thousands more are working daily for causes like climate justice, racial and gender [...]