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A wetland is an area of land where water is at or near the soil surface for at least part of the year. Wetlands are a natural source of water and habitats for wildlife.

• 06/02/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

The tropical air hangs over the Sierra Leonean coastal village of Gbongboma like a moist towel. Musa Lahai sits in an enclave of thatched huts, surrounded by women and children sitting around two cooking fires. Orange flames lick the sides of several large kettles of fish stew. Each fish was hard to come by. “Before, we were catching good fish. Now, we’re not,” Lahai says. He is deputy chief of the village, where approximately 90 people survive off earth’s bounties, from harvesting oysters, to deep sea fishing, to farming and growing palm fruit.

• 03/12/2020
• David Goodman

Rivers are the world’s main source of clean drinking water, and their economic and environmental value are fundamental to the health of people and ecosystems. However, river basins face interrelated challenges — population growth, industrialization, urbanization, land use changes (including deforestation and land degradation), and changes in water quantity and quality.

• 07/17/2019
• Owen Scott, Fernanda Zermoglio

According to the United Nations, close to 1.7 billion people – almost 25% of the world’s population - rely on forests for shelter, livelihoods, water, food, and fuel security. Forests renew our air supply, as they take in large amounts of carbon dioxide and release oxygen.

• 05/22/2019
• SERVIR Global

Gordon Mumbo grew up in the small village of Kamuga, in Kenya’s Kisumu County. Year after year, he watched as frequent floods from one of Kenya’s major rivers, the Nyando, disturbed the peaceful flow of village life.

• 03/28/2019
• Global Waters

Since the 1970s, the Sahel region of northern Africa has been experiencing ongoing drought. The ecological, economic and social impacts are far-reaching, and coastal and estuarine ecosystems have
not been spared.

• 03/14/2019
• CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Conservation organizations have long promoted beekeeping as an activity to sustainably generate incomes and provide incentives to protect ecosystems.

• 01/29/2019
• Mark Donahue, David Miller

To increase rural incomes and improve forest management at scale, community small scale logging and charcoal production come out on top.

• 10/30/2018
• David Miller

Can USAID work with the private sector to reduce the rate of deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)? Can this be done at a large scale to increase rural incomes equitably?

• 10/29/2018
• David Miller

To assist the Government of Malawi and its citizens, USAID/Malawi designed the Protecting Ecosystems and Restoring Forests in Malawi (PERFORM) project.

• 10/17/2018
• Ramzy Kanaan, Gina Althoff

Senegal is taking a sectoral approach to its National Adaptation Planning (NAP) process with the development of sectoral NAPs. This process was first successfully completed in 2016 in one of the pillars of the country’s economy: the fisheries sector.

• 02/07/2018
• Dr. Khady Sané Diouf, Fatou Thiaw