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). […]

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 […]

Project Partners: PDL, Groundswell International and the Economics of Land Degradation Initiative Project end date:  March 2023   Summary: Haiti faces a perfect storm: crippling food insecurity, political instability, and decades of land degradation rooted in a colonial extractive model that never truly ended. Working with NGO Partenariat du Développement Local (PDL) and Groundswell International, […]

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: 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: 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 […]