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Greater tenure security is a prerequisite for land-based climate change mitigation efforts, for communities must have the rights to manage and benefit from improved land use.

This image shows a warden for Lower Zambezi National Park in Zambia who is also a mentor to Zambia’s first all-women community scout patrol unit.

Habitat conversion from forest to farmland is the principal driver of greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. At the same time, each year a forest remains standing, it absorbs carbon dioxide, mitigating climate change.

Habitat conversion from forest to farmland is the principal driver of greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. At the same time, each year a forest remains standing, it absorbs carbon dioxide, mitigating climate change.

A group of women is going to fetch drinking water from a nearby Solar operated pond sand filter by crossing a river on a boat in Morrelganj, Bangladesh.

A marginal farmer living in the southwest coastal belt of Morrelganj, Bagerhat district, stands with freshly plucked red spinach from her homestead garden.

Working the kilns at Kawandama Hills Plantation, one of Malawi's first producers of legal, licensed charcoal

With a grant from the MCHF Clean Cooking Fund, Kawandama Hills Plantation will scale up the production of sustainably produced legal, licensed charcoal.

Kawandama Hills Plantation will scale up the production of this sustainably produced fuel in Malawi. KHP is a pioneer in sustainable charcoal and obtained its license in 2015.

Malawi is facing a deforestation crisis that is very much linked to the increasingly worrisome trend of illegal and unsustainable charcoal.

With the National Forestry Inventory, this is the first time Malawi's Government has re-inventoried permanent sample plots in its forests.

Charcoal-led deforestation is Malawi’s single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, and its impact limits economic development and leaves the nation less resilient to climate change.

The USAID and UKAID-funded Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests (MCHF) program is supporting government partners to strengthen the forestry sector’s legal and regulatory framework, and to more effectively investigate and prosecute crimes like illegal tree cutting for the production of charcoal.

With support from the USAID and UKaid funded MCHF, Malasha Briquettes achieved its sustainable charcoal/biomass license from the government.

SupaMoto is providing urban households in Malawi with a subscription model allowing customers to pay a monthly fee for pellet fuel while the cost of the stove is financed by carbon credits over a longer period of time.