Indonesia has many rivers, but clean water is increasingly scarce. To address the Indonesian water crisis, Both ENDS and 3 Indonesian civil society organisations initiated IndoWater Community of Practice. IndoWaterCoP is born out of concern that the implementation of Indonesian water resource…
Het doel van participatieve planning in landgebruik (PLUP) is duurzaam, inclusief en gender-responsief beheer van land. PLUP is vooral belangrijk voor…
The Indonesia Water Community of Practice (IndoWater CoP) was declared on December 3, 2014 by a group of Indonesian NGOs whose members felt very concerned about the poor management of Indonesia's water resources due to a lack of integrated planning on river basin management…
Globally, the area that is suffering desertification and land degradation is ever expanding. Unsustainable and often large-scale agricultural practices, including the copious use of pesticides and fertilizers, are a major driver of land degradation, aprocess that is further exacerbated by climate change, causing more erratic rainfall patterns, longer periods of drought and unpredictable growing seasons. This is very problematic not only for the hundreds of millions of people who directly depend on land and water for their livelihoods, but also for life on earth as a whole. It is clear that this process must…
Both ENDS nam eerder deze maand deel aan de Conference of the Parties (COP) van de UNCCD in Ordos, Binnen-Mongolië in China. We maakten deel…
Toegang tot, eigendom van en controle over land is een essentiële factor in het streven naar 'Land Degradation Neutrality' (het stoppen van landdegradatie; LDN) en duurzaam landgebruik. Duurzaamheid betekent vaak dat je moet investeren op de lange termijn, en onzekerheid weerhoudt landgebruikers daarvan. Vooral landrechten van vrouwen zijn belangrijk, omdat zij meestal degenen zijn die het land bewerken en dus LDN in de…
In this short movie we follow Indian professor Vijay Paranjpye, who has dedicated his life and work to finding ways of involving local communities in the management of natural resources such as water. What is the Negotiated Approach and what has been achieved so far? This film takes us to India and…