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In Nepal, Integrating Forest and Family Health Is Improving Lives
›March 24, 2014 // By Sean PeoplesFor years, the Chepang people have lived off the land in Nepal’s forested central foothills. Communities cleared trees to start small subsistence farms, harvested the surrounding area for firewood, and eventually moved on after the wood, soil, and water were depleted.
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Gidon Bromberg: Jordan River Shows Water Can Be a Path to Peace, Generate Will for Change
›At last month’s launch of the USAID Water and Conflict Toolkit at the Wilson Center, Gidon Bromberg explained that the toolkit is about much more than just conflict. “It’s put very much in forefront the possibilities of peacebuilding,” he says in this week’s podcast. “Water is an opportunity in areas where there aren’t many opportunities.”
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Measurement Matters: Understanding Water Scarcity in an Increasingly Complex World
›March 21, 2014 // By Kathleen MogelgaardIt was a scorching hot April afternoon in Keur Moussa, a small farming community about 60 kilometers outside Dakar, Senegal. The landscape was mostly barren and very dry, and a fine red dust settled into our clothes as we walked with community leaders to learn about their efforts to cope with a changing environment. In this part of the world, adapting to climate change is figuring out how to manage water: how to survive for long periods without it, and what to do when too much comes at unexpected times.
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To Save the Environment, Move Beyond Finger Pointing, Says Andrew Revkin
›“The idea that there’s an information deficit – that if you fill it, it’ll change the world – is fantasy,” says Andrew Revkin in an interview at the Wilson Center.
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A New Model of Development? The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in International Aid
›USAID funding is “far outstripped” by private investment and business relationships in “nearly every country” in which it works – and that’s a good thing, according to USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah. [Video Below]
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In Quest to Understand Climate Change and Conflict, Avoid Simplification
›As the war in Syria shows no signs of letting up, a recent article in Middle Eastern Studies put forward the hypothesis that the brutal conflict was triggered by government mismanagement of the country’s recent drought, which lasted from 2006 to 2010. It’s a story we’ve heard before.
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Big Changes Need Big Stories: The Year Ahead in Environment and Energy Reporting
›While climate change has enjoyed a recent spike in news coverage, journalists face a constant challenge to bring sustained attention to other environmental stories, including resource scarcity, the changing oceans, and demographic change. [Video Below]
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Deepa Pullanikkatil: Climate Adaptation Efforts Reveal Health-Environment Links in Malawi
›Effective development interventions often require thinking outside the box. In southern Malawi’s Lake Chilwa basin, where environmental degradation, public health, and population dynamics intersect in unpredictable ways, people like Deepa Pullanikkatil of Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) are challenging conventional thinking with promising results.
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