Agroforestry World
Andrew Stevenson
Andrew Stevenson is the East and Central Asia office’s communications specialist. He has previously worked in Switzerland, Nepal and the UK with the UN and various NGOs on international trade, intellectual property and sustainable development. He holds an MSc in Environment and Development from the University of East Anglia, UK.
New report says forests are key to combating looming water crisis The world is facing a growing water crisis: already, 40% of the world’s population are affected by water scarcity, and climate change threatens to increase the frequency...
About 40% of Nairobi’s water supply gets lost on the way to consumers. Shutterstock/Sopotnicki For the past month Kenya has had torrential rainfall. This followed devastating droughts in parts of the country. The Conversation Africa’s Moina Spooner...
Women are playing a leading role in coping with and adapting to climate change in the mountainous rural areas of China’s Yunnan province, where disruptions in weather patterns and increasingly extreme events are expected to impact agricultural livelihoods. But while they are assuming more responsibility than men, their voices are mostly excluded from the policy-making processes that affect their daily lives.
More than 500 people from around the world tuned in on 21 and 22 March 2017 to Cool Insights for a Hot World, a virtual symposium to engage with scientists in a discussion about the links between forests,...
Dryland tropical agroforestry is a little-researched area that is likely to be increasingly in demand as climate patterns change. Researchers on the island of Sumba in Indonesia are working hard and fast to meet the challenges. Sumba’s...
This World Water Week, from 23 to 28 August 2015, will see attention turn to the role of water in development. In Stockholm, Sweden a gathering of over 3,000 people from more than 120 countries (including world leaders,...
Governments can use a computer model to see the effects of different land uses. We tested one model in a watershed in the Philippines, saving time and money, say Leo Kris M. Palao, Moises M. Dorado, Kharmina Paola...
Households in Oroquieta City in the Philippines have indicated their willingness to pay more on their water bills to preserve the quality and amount of their supply, say Margaret Calderon, Kharmina Anit, Leo Palao and Rodel Lasco ...