Central Asia
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19 January 2024
Foto: Water Alternatives Photos/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Programa das Nações Unidas para o Meio Ambiente apoia projetos que envolvem desde purificação de esgoto até semeadura de nuvens; mudanças climáticas, urbanização e poluição podem deixar dois terços da humanidade enfrentando estresse hídrico até…
23 May 2023
Mokoro is pleased to announce publication of the latest collaborative paper from the WOLTS team – Confident Gender and Land Champions: Building Critical Mass for Locally-Driven Change. The paper shares key findings from the most recent, dissemination-focused phase of WOLTS, our long-term, action-…
8 March 2023
Farmland and pastures across Central Asia are far less productive after decades of monocropping.
Main photo: Depleted land needs more water, which is already insufficient across much of Central Asia. (David Trilling)
The soils of Central Asia yield far less meat, dairy and produce today than…
20 February 2023
Photo: IRD/Michel Jégu (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)
La dégradation des terres est l'un des principaux déclencheurs de la migration en Asie centrale, confirme une nouvelle étude publiée par l'UNCCD ce mois-ci. Dans la région où la sécheresse et la désertification causent des pertes annuelles d'environ 6…
11 October 2022
Mokoro are delighted to publish a new blog from WOLTS Mongolia team member, B. Munkhtuvshin. “Protesting herders to get government support to stop harmful mining operations” is the story of recent demonstrations by nomadic pastoralists opposed to investments in the mining sector that have infringed…
28 June 2022
Dans son message à l’occasion de la Journée mondiale de la lutte contre la désertification et la sécheresse, célébrée ce 17 juin 2022, le secrétaire général de l’ONU, Antonio Guterres, a déclaré que « l’accès des femmes à la propriété foncière est un élément crucial de la restauration des terres…
16 June 2021
Main photo: Farmers at a FAO anti-desertification project in Burkina Faso, one of 11 countries targeted by the Global Environment Fund Initiative
The global launch of a $104 million initiative signals an ambitious effort by a range of partners to safeguard drylands in the context of climate…
14 June 2021
BISHKEK (TCA) — Territorial disputes in Central Asia do not allow countries of the region to take a step towards greater cooperation and increase regional integration. We are republishing the following article on the issue, written by independent researcher Ermek Baisalov and originally published…
18 February 2021
Pour atteindre les objectifs en matière de climat et de biodiversité, réduire la pollution mortelle et atteindre les objectifs de développement durable, il faut que toute la société se mobilise pour la durabilité
Changer de vision du monde et placer la nature au cœur de la prise de décision est…
21 July 2020
‘WOLTS Team Perspectives’ is a new series of blogs launched in February 2020 by the global WOLTS team. In this series, field team members share their views about the impacts of the project’s action-research on gender, land and mining among pastoralist communities in Tanzania and Mongolia. So far,…
14 February 2020
The Land Portal Foundation is seeking a dynamic and highly motivated Information Management Officer to support us in leading the information and data sharing needs of the Land Portal. The Information Management Officer will ensure the development of information partnerships, lead the development…
12 February 2020
Paquistão e o Irã oferecem abrigo a 90% de cidadãos do Afeganistão que abandonaram seu país durante 40 anos; afegãos lideram pedidos de asilo na Europa; conferência internacional quer apoiar cerca de 4,6 milhões de pessoas que vivem fora do território afegão.
A Agência da ONU para os Refugiados,…