Written by Yayasan Sangga Bumi Lestari team As part of the social forestry project implemented in Ketapang District, West Kalimantan, Yayasan Sangga Bumi Lestari, AidEnvironment’s team in Asia, held a series of workshops to surface input from local communities. One of the goals of the social forestry project is to work with local communities in achieving their ideas of using […]
The upper Ounila catchment in Morocco has been losing yield, becoming more inhospitable due to climate change, and lacking agricultural benefits and knowledge to work with the land. The area’s harsh climate presents a difficult environment to achieve sustainable greening. With the changing climate, we can expect that land degradation, floods, and droughts in the catchment will continue to increase. […]
Article by Anne Birungi Kikundwa Northern Uganda is a region blessed with abundant rainfall. If properly managed, it has the potential to remove the burden of communities suffering from the lack of access to potable water during the dry season. However, the practice of rainwater harvesting in the region has remained minimal partly due to lack of hard roofs […]
We recently conducted an interview with Paul Van Ruiten, the chair of the supervisory board of AidEnvironment. We value the expertise and experience across the organisation, and the strategic contributions being made by our colleagues occupying different roles. In this short article we share more about Paul. Paul’s background Paul has much experience in managing projects and organizations […]
The first quarter of 2023 saw 10 companies clear 4,000 hectares (ha) of forest in Indonesia’s industrial forest plantation sector, new analysis by AidEnvironment shows. Approximately 77% of this deforestation was caused by the two companies that have long been the largest deforesters in Indonesia’s industrial forest sector: PT Mayawana Persada in West Kalimantan and PT Industrial Forest Plantation in […]
