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Sunset @Inle Lake
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Floating Vegetable Farm

The people of Inle Lake, Myanmar plant vegetables on a floating lake embarkment built on sediment layers, over time creating an artificial floating bank to plant vegetables for personal consumption and to sell at the market.
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Farming Side by Side

A farmer and his wife plant PepsiCo potato seeds in Narayanpur, West Bengal, India.
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Pandemic Effects

This farmer and his wife enjoy growing their own vegetables for themselves. It is pumpkin season and prior to the lockdown in Nepal following the COVID outbreak, they would also sell some in the nearby market. But a lot of things have changed after the pandemic.
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Reconstruction Continues

Earthquake Reconstruction work continues in Samagaun, the last village in Northern Gorkha where CRS has worked.
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Transitional Shelter for Interim Support

Catholic Relief Services has helped build transitional shelters for the most vulnerable families following the devastating earthquake measuring 5.8 magnitudes on the Richter Scale in the Lamjung district of Gandaki province in Nepal in May 2021.
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Defining Plot Boundaries

A farmer leads government enumerators on a boundary walk around her four-acre farm in Traditional Area Mwansambo in Malawi.
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Trees as Community Wealth

Following years of large scale land acquisitions to grow commercial timber on degraded lands across Africa, multi-national forestry firm, Green Resources, has started a process to relinquish a substantial portion of its land in Mozambique and support communities to register their land rights.
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A Plot of Their Own

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.
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Documenting Rights to Protect Forests and Wildlife

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.
Wind turbines in a field
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Energy as an Anchor of USAID’s New Climate Strategy

USAID has developed a new Climate Strategy that will guide our hu­mani­ta­ri­an and development work through 2030 in a way that is truly different – by calling on all corners of USAID to play a part in our whole-of-agency response.
  • Alex Lane