By Tony Rinaudo “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” “I don’t much care where –” “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Unlike Lewis Carroll’s Alice, most of us…
Supported by major partners such as UNCCD, IUCN and Global Evergreening Alliance, this 5 day residential course aims to connect the dots between land, security and climate change. Land degradation, conflict, climate change, population pressure and poor governance can interact in negative feedback loops, directly impacting the health and livelihoods of 1.5 billion people. On…
Two billion people live in the drylands, which cover 41 percent of the world’s land area. Far from being bare and lifeless, these drylands contain trees and forests essential to the lives of people and animals, supplying basic needs such as food, medicine, wood, energy, and fodder for livestock. But every minute, we lose 23…
A new case study and video clip on EverGreen Agriculture has been produced by WRENmedia with support from EIARD. These new products describe EverGreen Agriculture and its role in restoring exhausted soils with richer sources of organic nutrients, helping smallholders increase crop yields and incomes, and adapt to climate change.