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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 [...]

Meet Fernanda Monteiro, an agronomist, geographer and civil society activist based in Brazil who has been working in the dryland regions of Serra do Espinhaço for ten years. The Serra do Espinhaço mountains run through Minas Gerais to Bahia for approximately 1200 km and are of enormous environmental importance. The region [...]

Bakel, Senegal – Since 2015, the Action Against Desertification (AAD) programme has been supporting the Great Green Wall (GGW) implementation in northern Senegal, bringing many positive benefits to communities, the environment and for biodiversity conservation. Over 8000 hectares of severely degraded land have already been prepared and planted to restore [...]

The FAO Committee of Forestry Working Group on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems is working on the launch of its first summer school, which will train champions on a transformative approach to building resilient drylands and boost dryland planning and work. The summer school will be held alongside the COFO WG's [...]

Produced jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), CGIAR and CARE, Doing no harm while doing good: Climate and conflict sensitivity in dryland humanitarian projects follows on the heels of the Global Report on Food Crises 2022, which revealed that 70 percent of people with crisis levels of acute food insecurity [...]

Angela is currently both working with non-state actors in Nakuru, Kenya and undertaking her LLM remotely at the University of Nairobi. She previously attained her LLB from Moi University on the back of her volunteer experience with non-state actors, which began in 2009.   Angela started off at various civil society organisations, [...]