Project partners: Groundswell International & Association Nourrir Sans Détruire (ANSD) Time frame: May 2024 – Nov 2025 Project lead: Vanja Westerberg Background The Burkinabè NGO Association Nourrir Sans Détruire (ANSD),  has promoted agroecology in Burkina Faso’s Eastern region since 2011, using a farmer-to-farmer model of innovation and knowledge sharing. Before ANSD’s interventions, agroecological practices […]

Client: The ELD Initiative and the German Development Cooperation Main Project Partner: The Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus (REC Caucasus)  Altus Project lead: Vanja Westerberg Challenge Natural pastures cover around 25% of Georgia’s area, equivalent to some 1.9 million hectares. The region of Kakheti has the highest share of pastures in Georgia (GeoStat, 2016). […]

Client: The Global Water, Energy & Food Security Nexus Secretariat Altus Project Lead: Vanja Westerberg Time frame: August 2022 – March 2023 Background Due to significant sedimentation of the Tuyamuyun Hydropower Complex on the lower Amu Darya River, bordering Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, Altus Impact was contracted to find economically viable solutions to manage reservoir sedimentation, […]

Time frame: February 2022 – October 2023 Project lead: Vanja Westerberg    Summary The study demonstrates the incredible potential of using landscape restoration as a source of Green Infrastructure to reduce sedimentation of major hydropower dams in Tajikistan while improving incomes and rural wellbeing. It is produced by the World Bank, in collaboration with Altus […]

Photo credit: Jeff Tan – https://urannah.com.au/about/ Client: Mackay Conservation Group | June-July 2020 The proposed Urannah Dam in regional north Queensland in Australia will flood the Country of the Wiri and Birri peoples of the Birri Gaba Nation. The broader impacts of the dam include enabling expansion of the region’s coal mining industry and increase […]

Client: The Economics of Land Degradation Project phase: January 2018 – January 2020 Land degradation and desertification are amongst the world’s greatest environmental challenges. The African continent is the most affected in terms of soil erosion, but it has a huge potential for ecological restoration (Gnacadja and Wiese, 2016; ELD & UNEP 2015). The “Regreening Africa” […]

Client: GIZ – Kyrgistan & ELD Initiative | Feb 2020 In February 2020, Vanja Westerberg of Altus Impact had the pleasure of lecturing a one-week intensive course on the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) for 2nd year students at the Kyrgyz National Agrarian University of (KNAU). Whilst learning about plant sciences and soil biology in their […]

Client: IUCN | May – July, 2019 Altus Impact is contributing to a major upcoming IUCN report, on the case for improving land health for agriculture to be published in 2020. The report will provide evidence and analysis to support stronger dialogue between conservation and agricultural actors around sustainability in the food and agricultural sectors. […]

Client: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Australia | April – Nov 2019

Client: GIZ & ELD Agricultural yields have been on a long steady decline in Benin. As farmers strive to maintain livelihoods and food security, remaining forests lands and other natural habitats are converted and cleared at alarming rates. This trend has direct and indirect knock-on effects on people and nature, further jeopardising the long-term resilience […]