October 2021

 

 

Highlights

 

“We Are Watching” campaign in Asia

“We are watching you, so act now. Act now, for our future.” Rural communities in Asia call on the world leaders attending the COP26 to recognize family farmers as solution providers and to invest in establishing a Farmers’ Empowerment and Climate Resiliency Trust Fund.

Find out more about the campaign

 

 

 

Bringing cultures together on the farms and mountains of Viet Nam

By getting organised into the Yen Duong farming cooperative, women of Tay and Dzao groups broke the cycle of low earnings that leaves farmers unable to invest in technology and innovation.

Read the success story of Ma Thi Ninh

 

 

 

Focus on climate finance for local actors

 

Community-managed funds key to protecting Brazilian Amazon

Leaders from the Podaali, Babassu and Dema funds explain how direct support to community-managed funds will help address challenges including climate change, biodiversity loss and rural poverty.

More about the event at the Global Landscapes Forum Amazonia

Read the White Paper

 

Investment in practical options to build resilience

A new IIED report offers 30 practical options to help local people build vital resilience into their livelihoods, landscapes and food systems and calls for an urgent increase in climate finance to and through local organisations.

Read the IIED Blog

 

 

 

 

FAO calls for climate finance for forest and farm smallholders

Scaling up assistance to forest and farm smallholders would provide benefits at a planetary scale in the face of climate change, according to a new FAO policy brief published last week.

Read the FAO webstory

 

 

 

 

New network to scale-up funding to secure the land and forest rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

 

Launched recently, Path to Scale is an informal network of donors and financial institutions aiming to scale-up funding to meet 2030 global climate and biodiversity target.

Find out more on the network

 

 

 

 

 

 

From partner countries

 

Young farmer brings successfully agroecology practices in his village

Recently trained by the producer organization CTOP and the youth network REJEPPAT, Anome Kossi Théodore shares his knowledge with women and teenagers of his community in Djakpata-kopé, Togo.

Read the story

 

 

 

 

 

Videos

 

 

 

 

New Publications

 

Launch of four new publications on climate resilience

These publications show that grassroots organizations are a solution to build resilience, reduce poverty, conserve biodiversity, restore forest landscapes and mitigate climate change.

Download the publications

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forest and farm producer organizations building resilience – strength in numbers and landscapes
FAO/AgriCord report

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diversification for climate resilience -Thirty options for forest and farm producer organisations
IIED report

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forest and farm producers – climate-change sentinels
FAO Policy brief

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

30 resilience options – diverse ways for grassroots organizations to flourish in the face of climate change
FAO/IIED Infographic

 

 

 

 

Events

 

GhFFaP National dialogue on Sustainable Charcoal and Fuel Wood production
27-28 October 2021

 

Sustainable Woodfuel Value Chains
in Africa Conference
23-25 November2021

 

More information on recent events

 

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