Indigenous forest stewardship has protected the Earth’s climate and is perhaps the only reason why we have not yet experienced the worst of the climate crisis. Indigenous communities in the Amazon own 210 million hectares of land and are highly skilled in forest conservation: the deforestation rate in indigenous territories is only 0.8%, less than […]
In this edition How we work Strategic priorities for the final months of 2020 Our ongoing COVID-19 emergency response Letting go of old thinking as we face a biodiversity catastrophe Fortifying companies and governments in their climate ambition Investing in women leaders for water and climate security Supercharging climate finance The Big Picture Michael Jenkins In […]
Credit: Juan Patiño. In this edition Resilience Means Closing the Gender Gap Our Impact: Elevating Women in Peru’s Water Sector Clara Vásquez: The Value of Capacity-Building Resilience Means Closing the Gender Gap Michael Jenkins Peru, where Forest Trends is leading a $27.5 million project to scale nature-based solutions, is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world […]
El pasado 6 de mayo, las especialistas en inversión pública, Yessica Armas (CONDESAN), Nancy Zapata (Consultora) y Angela Cárdenas (MINAM) participaron en la conferencia virtual “Las inversiones IOARR como medida de rápido impacto en la recuperación de los ecosistemas” (ver video) para explicar el concepto y operación de esta nueva modalidad de inversión pública ambiental. […]
Dado el actual contexto de aislamiento social obligatorio y el retorno progresivo a las actividades públicas y privadas a través de teletrabajo por las circunstancias que genera la expansión del COVID-19; el proyecto Infraestructura Natural para la Seguridad Hídrica, ha diseñado una plataforma e-learning que permite proseguir en el esfuerzo de fortalecer capacidades para mejorar […]
Indigenous peoples in the Amazon are dying of COVID-19. In Brazil, indigenous peoples are being lost at twice the rate of their non-indigenous compatriots. The pandemic arrived at a time when indigenous communities were already facing a wave of new discrimination, isolation, and existential threats from outside exploitation of their land. As government inaction is […]
La gestión del agua en el Perú presenta desigualdades significativas en la participación de mujeres y hombres en la toma de decisiones sobre la infraestructura natural y el agua, a pesar de que las mujeres son en la mayoría de los casos las principales usuarias del agua para el consumo doméstico, la agricultura de subsistencia, […]
Forest Trends’ Beto Borges, Director of our Communities and Territorial Governance Initiative, talks to Dr. Steve King, EVP Sustainable Supply, Ethnobotanical Research & IP in a wide-ranging conversation on indigenous technology, a game-changing new drug developed from an Amazonian tree, and the next frontier in scientific discovery. This conversation has been edited and condensed from […]
In this edition A Statement from the Forest Trends Team on Injustice, Violence, and Discrimination How Indigenous Technology Can Drive New Discoveries In Western Medicine Forests as Pharmacies: A Field Guide This week’s Resilience Dispatch brings you a fascinating story about how a US-based company, Napo Pharmaceuticals, is working with indigenous communities in the Peruvian […]
Inclusión de la infraestructura natural en planes integrales para la reconstrucción de regiones deja atrás la visión de que sólo la infraestructura gris o física es efectiva para mitigar riesgos de desastres. En el marco del Día Nacional de la Prevención de los Desastres en el Perú, es importante recordar la importancia de la infraestructura natural en […]