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Fostering green livelihood approaches in Yunnan, southwest China
Our engagement in southwest China – part of the Far Eastern Himalayan Landscape – has included the co-implementation of a GEF Small Grants Programme-funded climate-smart livelihoods project with the UNDP and the Global Environmental Institute (China).
In 2021, the second and final year of the project, we organised knowledge exchange visits and consultations with community members – predominantly indigenous Lisu and Nu people living in the remote Gaoligong mountains – in Yunnan, the project area.
Our events provided a platform to share approaches to green livelihoods – sustainable agriculture, natural resource management, community-based conservation, nature-friendly products, tea plantation management, pest control, eco-tourism design and development, and natural hazard risk management – and where beneficiaries, experts, and government representatives came together to discuss novel ecological development models for rural revitalisation.
The shocks of climate and the pandemic have demonstrated the vulnerability of the tourism economy in ...
Women traders from four HKH transboundary landscapes face unique challenges that require unique approaches
Addressing information gaps and promoting joint research and conservation in the Far Eastern Himalaya
Positioning large cardamom as an HKH mountain niche product will be key to bolstering its global demand
Mizoram paves the way for strategic forest conservation across the HKH
We are leveraging a public–private–community partnership working with the private sector company Dabur Nepal Pvt. Ltd, ...
Energy-efficient stoves replace open fire cooking in 115 households in Yunnan
In 2021, we published three books based on the work across three different initiatives.