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The road trip to Ririma village was long and dusty, the desert hot and desolate. We stopped at a watering point in Kambinye village when we noticed pastoralists fetching water with their animals.

This is what the shores of Lake Victoria look like from Luzira Port Bell in Kampala, Uganda. Local industries dump chemicals, while fishermen, residents and tourists dump plastic bottles and old fishing nets. The water hyacinth has also invaded the lake, making it difficult for even motor boats to travel across the lake.

The most scenic Mekong River landscape of the Koh Samseb Community-Based Ecotourism in Kratie province of Cambodia.

Making the irrigation system more climate-resilient includes securing land titles for water users and paying upstream communities for conserving the forests that provide water to the irrigation system. 

IBIS Rice is grown by Cambodian farmers committed to the strictest environmental standard: they don't use chemicals and don't allow trees to be cleared or wild animals to be poached on their land, in return, they are paid a premium for their crop.

Irrigation systems help smallholder farmers conserve water and improve the quality of their crops

Eusebio López is a 55-year-old farmer from Chiantla, Huehuetenango. Access to water is one of the challenges of smallholder farmers in Guatemala.

Ruth Tercero used to sow corn and beans for family consumption and no return of investment. As years went by, climate change challenges increased and she faced long periods of drought and low access to water, that affected or caused the complete loss of her crops.

Working together is how they achieve their dreams and support their family. Flaviano and Iddy are father and son, and work together in agriculture.

Mariano Díaz is an 53-year-old farmer from Las Escobas San Miguel Ixtaguacan. Being aware of the importance of natural resources conservation has become one of the main reasons he is using Modern Agriculture.

The Imiría lagoon fisheries resources, in the Amazonian region of Ucayali, have slowly restored themselves over the years, providing food security for neighboring Indigenous communities and settlements.

To mitigate the impacts of climate change and resource depletion in the Imiría Regional Conservation Area -located in the Peruvian Amazon- artisanal fishermen from four neighboring Indigenous communities, local and regional authorities, and experts in the field are joining efforts to assess the Imiría lagoon’s fisheries’ resources.

Jellard Muraho stands in front of a man-made dam wall his community built in Ward 14, Zaka district in Zimbabwe.