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 […]

Client: Oko Forests + SUMAS University Geneva Oko Forests is an environmentally conscious for-profit company whose mission is to boost the incomes of small-holder farmers in Ghana and improve cassava productivity. Oko Forests processes cassava into high quality cassava flour and is seeking to improve environmental outcomes and incomes by deploying agroforestry practices to thousands of […]

Client: IUCN Ghana In Ghana, Community Resource Management Areas (CREMA) have been identified as a useful mechanism to foster community participation in forest conservation and management efforts, particularly under REDD+. The CREMA structure involves the devolution of power and authority to communities in off-reserve areas. So far however, established CREMAs face significant challenges in maintaining functionality and […]

Client: IIED Responding to the need to adapt to climate variability, the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) programme – led by IIED, IED Afrique and the Near East Foundation consortium – has worked to incorporate climate variability in development planning in Mali and Senegal. This is done recognising that local […]

Client: The Economics of Land Degradation Large wildfires ravaged the Dedoplistako district ‘the wheat basket of Georgia’ in the summer of 2015. They had their origin on farms, as farmers ignite crop residues to dispose of them cheaply after harvest. A dry and windy summer, combined with high yields (large amount of crop residues) made […]