Both ENDS
While agriculture and livestock food production in the world have become increasingly large-scale, industrial and ever more efficient for decades, the damage and inequality this food system causes is also becoming increasingly clear. Across the world, more and more people are therefore engaged in alternative, sustainable food production that ensures many generations to come to still have access to fertile, healthy land and clean water.
In this talkshow, we highlight some of these examples and hope to fuel the dialogue about this topic.
Farid Tabarki - Studio Zeitgeist
Inspired? Join our 'The Future We See' - talkshow on September 28th! You can either attend live or online, quietly listen or actively participate in the discussion - or during the drinks afterwards. We hope to see you there!
To get a glimpse of the atmosphere, see a short video of our last session (about economic systems): https://youtu.be/AUNGcROovnc
And to dive in a little deeper, watch this compilation: https://youtu.be/nzuwIREeiNo
In het oosten van Senegal ligt Koussanar, een kleine stad die zich snel uitbreidt, omringd door dorpen die nog geworteld zijn in het plattelands- en nomadenleven. De regio is warm en droog en dat wordt verergerd door klimaatverandering. Ook de grond in de regio is droog en daarnaast vaak uitgeput door een combinatie van factoren zoals ongeschikte landbouwpraktijken, (pinda) monocultuur, intensieve landbouw, bosbranden en overbegrazing. Tegenwoordig pakken de boeren en nomadische veehouders in de regio het echter anders aan. Ze werken aan een betere toekomst door zich in te zetten voor het herstel van aangetast land met behulp van "Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration" (FMNR).
Join us for an open space for a reflection and exchange on a new dataset, developed by WRI, to monitor regreening efforts, and its applications in the Sahel.
In the drylands of Africa, land degradation threatens the livelihoods of millions of people. Fortunately, there are promising initiatives emerging all over the continent that are turning the tide. Throughout the Sahel, for example, vast tracts of land along the Great Green Wall have been restored by local communities. They have nurtured the plants that spontaneously spring from the soil, protecting young sprouts from cattle and other hazards.
Join our dialogue on how to set up more and better financial mechanisms that can support agroecological initiatives of local communities living in drylands.
The land degradation neutrality (LDN) response hierarchy of Avoid > Reduce > Reverse land degradation is an overarching principle for LDN implementation, which guides people in planning interventions to achieve LDN. The hierarchy articulates which interventions should be prioritised based on their potential to maximise the conservation of land-based natural capital, recognising that avoiding or reducing land degradation is generally more cost-effective than efforts to reverse past degradation. As value for money is highest in the Avoiding and in Reducing Land Degradation response, a smart way to spend money is to support sustainable land management approaches like agroecology that work with nature, not against it.
Al decennialang ontwikkelen en promoten onze partnerorganisaties manieren om landdegradatie, verwoestijning en droogte in hun omgeving te bestrijding. Dit gebeurt niet alleen in gebieden die bekend staan om hun droge karakter, maar ook in bossen en zelfs moerasgebieden. Vanwege De internationale dag ter bestrijding van verwoestijning en droogte op 17 juni willen we graag een aantal voorbeelden laten zien hoe onze partners ecosystemen herstellen en zo het welzijn van mens en natuur bevorderen.
Join our event, providing space for an interactive discussion among COP15 participants on multi-actor collaboration and the financing of community-based restoration
Van 9 tot 20 mei vindt in Abidjan, de hoofdstad van Ivoorkust, de 15e 'Conferentie van de UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (UNCCD COP15) plaats. Overheden, Beleidsmakers, maatschappelijke organisaties en wetenschappers uit landen van over de hele wereld gaan met elkaar in gesprek over de problematiek rond droogte, landdegradatie en verwoestijning die steeds groter worden. Collega's Nathalie van Haren en Stefan Schüller zijn erbij, net als een flink aantal medewerkers van organisaties waarmee Both ENDS soms al decennialang mee samenwerkt. Maar wat is het doel van de bijeenkomst, wat wordt er besproken en waarom is het belangrijk om erbij te zijn? We vroegen het Nathalie en Stefan.
Op zaterdag 13 april vindt de jaarlijkse Afrikadag plaats in het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen in Amsterdam.
Both ENDS en Voice 4 Thought verzorgen daar samen een workhop (voertaal Engels), genaamd
'Positive vibes from the Sahel: from regreening to slam poetry'
Facilitator: Andrew Makkinga
The Sahel region from Chad to Senegal is often seen in the Netherlands as an immensely dry, infertile area where extremists and smugglers serve and where hunger thrives. But there is so much more to tell about the Sahel region.
Over the last decades, a large number of positive social initiatives have been taken up both in the cities and in rural areas. Initiatives that create and stimulate self-esteem, culture, education, climate resilience and prosperity.
Young people are often the driving force behind these movements, which is not surprising considering that almost 70 percent of the population in a country like Niger is under the age of 25.
In this workshop Both ENDS and Voice4Thought want to tell the other story of the Sahel by highlighting some of these positive initiatives, and by showing how they are interlinked and part of a larger, bottom up movement in this area.
Hope to see you there!
