Kenyan youths renounce crime to protect forests
Former drug dealers and thieves alert local chiefs to illegal logging and sell seedlings for reforestation
BRACED voices in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia
This short video presents initial perceptions of the main concepts, goals, challenges and opportunities of partners from BRACED Burkina Faso and Ethiopia.
What is BRACED?
This short animation explains what the BRACED programme is all about.
As pastoralist land shrinks, Maasai women take livestock lead
Maasai women gain a bigger role in livestock raising, once the domain of men
Help at hand for countries desperately seeking climate cash
Funds have billions of dollars to invest in climate change action, but developing states are finding it hard to access
Climate pressures threaten political stability - security experts
But renegotiating water sharing treaties and shoring up food security could make a big difference, report says
Launching the BRACED Resilience Exchange
The Resilience Exchange is a major flagship report exploring what BRACED has learned after 2 years.
Safe haven elusive for Africans fleeing conflict, climate stress
In West Africa, people are moving from one risky place to another, triggering new tensions and dangers
Farming plan takes root to help north Mali despite drought, conflict
Mali's government and the U.N. try to revive farming in the conflict- and drought-hit north
As they abandon barren land, farmers take problems with them
Creeping deserts, loss of trees and barren soils are pushing farmers off their land and fueling migration