Blog

In the districts of Mpigi, Rakai and Masaka in central Uganda, once-forested landscapes have been degraded by farming and illegal logging.

• 03/12/2019
• CIFOR

Ecosystems are fundamental to life on earth and provide goods and services that are essential to human well-being. This includes their role in helping human populations mitigate and adapt to climate change.

• 03/08/2019
• Mark Higgins

Along Cameroon’s equatorial coast, women are planting trees on degraded land, both in the humid terrestrial ecosystems, and the estuarine areas where mangroves grow. In some cases, they’re also gaining greater tenure security in the process.

• 03/05/2019
• CIFOR

Many countries in Southeast Asia have set ambitious targets for transitioning to a low-carbon, climate-resilient future, including improved management of agriculture, forestry, and other land uses.

• 02/28/2019
• Mikell O’Mealy, Charlotte Mack-Heller, Eric Hyman

Job Title: Senior Sustainable Landscapes Advisor, Foreign Service Limited position (FSL-02), Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and Environment (E3). 

• 02/22/2019
• Climatelinks

Many governments recognize agroforestry’s contributions to farmers’ food security and livelihoods, and to climate change adaptation and mitigation, but face challenges in attracting climate finance to expand agroforestry.

• 02/19/2019
• Julianna White

Northern Guatemala, together with neighboring Mexico and Belize, is home to the largest tropical forest north of the Amazon. Like many other tropical forests, the Selva Maya faces pressures from unsustainable logging and land clearing for agriculture.

• 02/07/2019
• Christine Chumbler

The Mara River winds for nearly 14 thousand kilometers from the Mau forest in Kenya to Lake Victoria in Tanzania. It supports huge wildlife populations in two key conservation areas (the Masai Mara National Reserve and Serengeti National Park) described as “the eighth wonder of the world.”

• 01/30/2019
• Owen Scott, Fernanda Zermoglio

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

These are a few of our favorite webinars from 2018.

• 12/12/2018
• Stephan Hardeman

This blog features some of our favorite videos that were added to the website in 2018.

• 11/20/2018
• Stephan Hardeman

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

In the West Gonja and Sene districts of northern and central Ghana, respectively, deforestation caused by charcoal production is affecting sustainable livelihoods.

• 10/18/2018
• SERVIR

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