Bamboo Binding in Bangladesh
Threatened by severe soil erosion and flooding, communities along the Jamuna River in Bangladesh have organized to re-introduce traditional bamboo binding to prevent their soil from flowing downstream....
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Women and Reclamation
Fidelia Alves and her fellow farmer in Kalohan, Timor Leste. Photo Credit: USC Canada Flickr Timor Leste, a sovereign state in Southeast Asia formerly known as East Timor, gained independence from...
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Sand Dams in Eastern Kenya
“We are using the time saved to work on our farms”. Photo credit: Excellent Development / AFSA Sand dams are one example of a community-based adaptation strategy for smallholder farmers in semi-arid...
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Riverbank Rehabilitation in Nepal
Nepali farmers restoring the Kamala riverbank. Photo Credit: USC Canada A joint effort by communities in Sindhuli working with USC Nepal reclaimed over 1,000 hectares of eroded riverbanks, preventing...
View ArticleThe Green Belt Movement
By empowering communities, especially women, the Green Belt Movement (GBM) works to conserve the environment and improve livelihoods. Founded in 1977 by Nobel Peace Prize laureate the late Wangari...
View ArticleTraditional Fisheries Management & Coral Reefs
A 2012 study of successful fisheries management by the Wildlife Conservation Society finds that coral reefs in Aceh, Indonesia, are benefiting from a local, low-tech and traditional management system...
View ArticleCommunity Mangrove Rehabilitation
Vietnam’s coastal communities are threatened by an average of four typhoons per year. A system of sea dykes located behind the coastal mangroves have been built to protect the coastline. Mangrove...
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Association Consortium for Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Areas...
ICCA Consortium banner. Photo credit: ICCA Consortium The ICCA Consortium is a non-profit association that works at local, national and international levels to promote recognition of indigenous...
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Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM)
PELUM Association logo. Photo credit: PELUM Kenya Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) is a network of over 220 civil society organizations in 10 countries in east, central and southern...
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Shashe Agroecology School, Zimbabwe
“For the farmer, seeing is believing.” Photo credit: AFSA Farmer-to-farmer exchanges are a key method in education for agroecology. In 2000, a group of twelve smallholder families set up a...
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