World Food Day is on Sunday, October 16, and this year’s theme is “Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too.” Food security is one of the biggest climate change related issues facing people around the world today. Farmers, fisherfolk, and pastoralists are among those hit hardest by rising temperatures and increasingly frequent weather-related disasters. […]
Each year Global Greengrants Fund makes over 700 grants to environmental activists around the world, helping to support grassroots initiatives to protect the planet and the rights of the people who call these natural places home. We wish we could share every single story with you. Here are three exciting projects we’ve supported recently. Colombia: […]
Recently, Sri Lanka became the first nation to protect all mangroves, even going so far as to open a mangrove museum as part of a project aiming to protect 8,800 hectares of mangrove forests throughout the country and restore 3,900 hectares. Why make so much effort to protect a tree? There are over 70 species […]
Kilimanjaro. The highest peak on the African continent is a place of breathtaking beauty that ascends through a variety of climates and ecosystems to over 19,000 feet of elevation. As I landed in Tanzania in early September, I was one of few people on the plane who was not preparing for the strenuous climb up […]
In 2004, local farmers in western Ghana didn’t exactly welcome an incoming gold mine with open arms, but they didn’t resist when Canadian company Kinross Mining offered them financial compensation in exchange for building the mine on their lands. But three years later, the farmers learned they had been swindled. By then, the underground and […]
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