In northern Tanzania, recurring drought in recent years caused by climate change has put pressure on communities who make their livelihoods by keeping cattle. A group of Maasai women have turned to producing honey from beehives in the forest to generate additional income. This has enabled them to pay for their children’s education, buy more livestock and is helping to regenerate the forest around their hives.

While developing profitable organizations that contribute to inclusive development, providing empowerment opportunities also for women and youth, family farming cooperatives are also committed to community wellbeing and environmental sustainability, having a positive impact over society and the planet.

Clay Pottery Making -Tyrshang Lurshai Cooperative Society

The project was implemented with the technical assistance of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with support of other partners.

Indigenous scholar Lindsey Schneider addresses the ill-gotten legacy of settler colonialism with an introduction to the Land Back movement.

We train farmers how they can be self-reliant, how to keep the environment healthy, and how our body will be healthy by eating traditional varieties, how to grow crops organically, free from chemicals.

In this profoundly hopeful talk, Diné musician, scholar, and cultural historian Lyla June outlines a series of timeless human success stories focusing on Native American food and land management techniques and strategies.

Poultry waste is rich in nitrogen and other nutrients, and is good food for beneficial microbes in the soil. Mix it with decomposed cow dung and carbon-rich materials. To speed up decomposition, sp...

The land means restoration of tribes and the things they have lost and have been taken.

In the Rupununi, the SWM Programme is being implemented by the Guyana Wildlife Conservation and Management Commission in coordination with CIFOR. Guyana is one of twelve African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries participating in the initiative. The SWM Programme is co-funded by the European Union and the French Facility for Global Environment.