09Feb
2021

Support to the Management of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forests in Bangladesh (SMP-II)

OBJECTIVE The Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD) under the Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is enabled to manage the Sundarbans in a sustainable manner through co-management by involving local resource users, efficient and standardised patrolling, and a proper ecological monitoring. CONTEXT The largely undisturbed Sundarbans mangrove forests in Bangladesh remains...

14Jan
2021

The Ocean in a Changing Climate: Rapidly Growing Risk of Loss and Damage

Building upon the existing momentum and looking ahead towards a year of exchanges strongly related to the ocean and to an entire decade dedicated to ocean science for sustainable development, GIZ invites you to a timely expert dialogue among science and research, civil society, international organisations and policy to: Foster...

21Dec
2020

Providing farmers’ financial security

ASEAN public and private sectors join hands to raise awareness on disaster risk financing strategies and regional cross-sectoral collaboration in driving food security and sustainable development in agricultural sector. Over 50 participants from government representatives in agriculture and insurance sectors of the 10 ASEAN Member States (AMS) together with private...

20Dec
2020

Online training on ‘nature-based solutions for global challenges’ in Asia and Pacific

©Thora Amend In recent years Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have received considerable attention both at international level as well as in development cooperation. Increasingly politicians, sector planners and infrastructure builders are aware of the value of intact ecosystems and the services they maintain for human wellbeing. Authorities have the challenging task...

20Dec
2020

The ReCAP Project: Growing climate and farmer friendly coconuts that happen to be oh-so-delicious!

Nuanla-or working on her coconut farm, © Nuanla-or Dherdkiattikun Author: Valentin Kossack, valentin.kossack@giz.de The new ReCAP project supports coconut farmers in the Nam Hom Provinces of Thailand in converting their farms to regenerative organic farms. What is regenerative organic farming? In a nutshell: Farming practices that boost soil health and reduce...

20Dec
2020

GIZ and IPD will continue successful cooperation at the world’s leading trade fair for organic food in 2021

Joint exhibition booth of GIZ, develoPPP.de and Import Promotion Desk (IPD) at BIOFACH 2020 (Copyright: IPD) Digital BIOFACH (February 2021) – Organic Sourcing for Development GIZ and the Import Promotion Desk (IPD) will extend their successful joint exhibition appearance for the sixth time at BIOFACH 2021. BIOFACH is world’s leading trade...