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Smallholder oil palm production in Honduras: A model for sustainable livelihoods and landscapes
When hurricane Fifi-Orlene hit Honduras in 1974 whole communities were wiped out, as well as an the country's banana crop, leaving…
14 February 2019
Smallholder oil palm producers contributing to peace and sustainability in Colombia
Farmers in Tumaco, Colombia, have been cultivating oil palm since the 1960s. However, the arrival of bud rot disease in…
07 February 2019
Indigenous communities strengthen resilience in the face of drought
Chaco Sustentable is a project to strengthen local communities’ resilience to prolonged droughts in Paraguay’s Central Chaco region. Today, the first results…
15 January 2019
India steps up to make leather production more sustainable
The city of Kanpur, India, at the borders of the Ganges, hosts a lively tannery industry, employing 50,000 people directly…
08 January 2019
The Solidaridad Show: Broadcasting Best Practices in Ghana
More than 10,000 people in both the western and Brong Ahafo regions of Ghana tune in regularly to a new…
22 November 2018
Beginning 4 December, Solidaridad participates in the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…
21 November 2018
Climate and Landscape Innovations
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Ensuring Community Livelihoods Through Effective Land Governance in Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone, two-thirds of the population are involved in subsistence farming. Here, land is not just an asset but…
25 October 2018
Spotlight on Colombia: A Different Story of Palm Oil
Palm oil is associated with negative practices such as deforestation and displacement, but this plant and its fruit have other…
27 July 2018
TUERÊ AND COCOA: Family Production to Reforest the Amazon
In one of the biggest rural settlements in Latin America, cocoa producers are learning to recover native forests with sustainable…
10 May 2018
