Singapore has launched a reforestation campaign after losing huge amounts of mangrove habitats in the past century.
It plans to plant 1 million trees within 10 years to improve living conditions for wildlife and people.
The scheme began in March 2020 and had led to the planting of 51,819 trees by October 2021.
One goal of the project is to have all Singaporean households approximately a 10-minute walk from a park.
Rural 21, the International Journal for Rural Development, published an article by Laura Meggiolaro and Anne Hennings on the recently updated SDG Land Tracker.
International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (Nairobi)
How could it be that we possessed and protected this land for millennia and this sacred link is in danger of disappearing from Tanzania's history in merely 60 years?
According to Mozambique analyst Joseph Hanlon the World Bank admits that its policy failed in Mozambique, leading to high growth but inequality, poverty, corruption. The World Bank cites the need to “rethink” the current model.
Main photo: The Chinese fence inside Myanmar’s territory in October 2021. / NamKhamnews
China has cut off electricity to a border village in northern Shan State for nearly nine months due to boundary disputes, according to residents.
Main photo: Bangladesh’s side of the no-man’s land separating the country from India, Lalmonirhat district has been sitting idle for years but just over the edge, sprawling tea plantations are seen in the neighbouring nation. Considering the economic benefits of tea farming in these lands, local farmers have called for more public and private investment in this regard. This photo was taken in the Angorpota area of Patgram upazila in Lalmonirhat recently. Photo: S Dilip Roy
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has said that tenure rights to land and other natural resources are fundamental to food and shelter, which are the key elements of social and cultural practices underpinning Tanzania’s economic growth.
Speaking in Dar es Salaam recently, FAO Tanzania’s National Land Officer, Beatha Fabian, pointed out that security of tenure on natural resources such as land, fisheries and forests was very key since food security of billions of people in the world depends on it.
Representatives of a group of civil society organisations are calling for the United Nations Development Programme to retract a Memorandum of Understanding signed with the Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone that could contribute up to 10% of South Africa’s total emissions from all sectors combined — and threaten water security from Limpopo to Zimbabwe.
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