Beekeepers in Bolivia have been working hard to meet an increased demand for honey during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to reports from producer organizations in the country.Honey has been used for food but also for its medicinal properties in Bolivia since ancient times. "People know formulas using honey...

The Ghana Federation of Forest and Farm Producers (GhaFFaP) – a member-based forest and farm producer federation with a membership of over 1 million smallholders drawn from the forest, transition and savanna ecological zones of Ghana has been actively promoting sustainable forest and farm businesses as a catalyst for achieving decent...

IUCN is onto something with the Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions and its associated self-assessment. However, the best way to reinforce the universal value of this tool is for different types of organisations to apply the self-assessment to their own projects. Farmers and farmers’ associations have an outsized impact on landscapes...

Saikou Janko, president of All Gambia Forestry Platform has blamed the government for illegal logging and wood timber trade. Mr Janko said: “The Gambia forest cover is declining at an alarming rate causing serious threat to the livelihood of rural Gambians exposing them to climate change hazards.” “The task force is hereby...

Liberia has re-joined the FFF as a network country. A Letter of Agreement was signed on 16 April with the Farmer Union Network of Liberia (FUN) and the National Charcoal Union (NACUL). The two organizations will support farmers and forest producers as primary change agents to build climate-resilient landscapes and...