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Year Three: Good Growth Partnership Highlights
During year three, the GEF-funded Good Growth Partnership released new and strengthened existing online resources and innovative tools, providing an opportunity to learn from best practices elsewhere.
This report shares how COVID-19 has impacted the four Good Growth Partnership countries and supply chains, but also the positive outcomes that the integrated approach has enabled and how it contributes to strengthen supply chain sustainability and help countries recover.
‘To succeed, we need to be open-minded, humble, and courageous’
As Lead Environmental Specialist at the Global Environment Facility, Mohamed Bakarr oversees programs that support integrated solutions to challenges related to agriculture, forestry, and livelihoods in developing countries. In an interview, he shared how his doctoral research in tropical biology informed his views about the linkages between human and natural systems and why protecting the environment requires work at the intersection of the two.
When did you first become interested in environmental issues?
The Restoration Initiative: 2019 Year in Review
The 2019 Year in Review for The Restoration Initiative (TRI) details progress and stories from the first year of its implementation. With support from the GEF, this pathbreaking program led by the International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN) in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is supporting ten Asian and African countries in achieving shared restoration goals.
Year Two: Good Growth Partnership Highlights
Since its inception in 2017, the Good Growth Partnership has brought together a growing coalition of committed changemakers to achieve greater results throughout its focal commodity supply chains and landscapes. This alliance has enabled efficiency, avoided overlap and allowed each partner to work to their strengths while simultaneously connecting the dots and layers that influence sustainability throughout the entire supply chain.
Sustainable development in Asia: seeing both the forests and the trees
As the continent comes to dominate the global economy, it will do much to determine the fate of the global commons
As a young Asian business leader, it is fascinating to be part of an important transformation – the rise of Asia in the global economy.
New funding boosts efforts to combat deforestation, desertification, climate change and strengthen food systems
GEF approves $179 million to support FAO-led projects
FAO welcomed a decision by the Council of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to provide $179 million to support the UN agency's work with countries worldwide at the critical nexus between agriculture and the environment. This includes projects focused on biodiversity conservation, transboundary water resources management, sustainable land management, highly hazardous pesticide remediation, and climate change adaptation.
World Day to Combat Desertification 2019: Let's grow the future together
The World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD), observed every year on June 17th, promotes public awareness of international efforts to combat land degradation. WDCD 2019 theme, “Let’s Grow the Future Together,” calls for the achievement of Land Degradation Neutrality through the involvement and cooperation of all levels of the global community.
Close to $1 billion approved for environment and climate action at GEF meetings
GEF 56th Council and 26th LDCF-SCCF meetings signal “new way of doing business”
Governments have approved programmes and projects worth almost $1 billion to tackle growing threats to the natural world - and to help some of the Earth's most vulnerable people adapt to climate change - at two consecutive Global Environment Facility (GEF) meetings in Washington DC this week.
International Day of Forests 2019: Conserving the major forests on the planet
The International Day of Forests, which is celebrated globally on March 21, is an opportunity to remember the critical importance of forests for human and planet health.
Despite growing efforts to protect the forests, they continue to decline under the pressure of human population growth and competing needs for land. Over the past 25 years, the extent of the world’s forests has declined by about 3%. Business as usual isn’t enough and innovative approaches are both necessary and urgent to reverse this trend.
Year One: Highlights from the Good Growth Partnership
The Good Growth Partnership is pioneering a new approach to cultivating sustainability throughout the commodity supply chain. As a result, it is generating new knowledge and lessons about the ways we can improve the production, demand and financing of soy, beef and palm oil.
This report highlights the significant gains and impacts already observable one year into its implementation.
For more information on this initiative visit http://goodgrowthpartnership.com.