Growing giants: How yams shape identity, knowledge and power in PNG
“They will never live without yams.”In Papua New Guinea (PNG), yams are an ancient companion. The first humans to arrive…
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Land tenure and restoration: A dual challenge for African landscapes
Managing land sustainably and improving local people’s living standards are major challenges for environmental conservation. Faced with these challenges, the…
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Advancing soil health agenda through a soil knowledge exchange
Up to 65 per cent of Africa’s productive land is degraded, while desertification affects 45 per cent of its total…
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Learning across landscapes
Every landscape is unique – and sometimes we can cross-pollinate learnings between locations, tooThe integrated landscape approach is currently gaining…
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The road to African soil health
Across the African continent, soil health – defined by the International Technical Panel on Soils (ITP) as “the ability of the…
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Urban Kenyan youth get their hands in the soil on World Environment Day
With almost a quarter of Earth’s land area degraded, affecting 3.2 billion people – 40% of our total population –…
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From national targets to grassroots transformation
Unsustainable agricultural practices and the over-exploitation of natural resources has eroded ecosystem health on 60 percent of Africa’s agricultural and…
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Explainer: How trees help protect us from flooding
Right now, much of East Africa – including Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda – and southern Brazil are awash with water.…
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Cameroon: To restore landscapes, protect customary rights-holders
Across Cameroon, from the arid northern steppes to the rolling woodlands and western highlands, communities have sized up the impact…
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In DRC, titling industrial loggers shows no impact on deforestation
In 2021, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced plans to lift a 20-year ban on industrial…
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New roadmap charts course to greener trade
Trade in agricultural commodities has been linked with deforestation in tropical regions across the globe. But what’s driving the biggest…
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