01/01/1970

Uganda tops African countries with well-developed electricity regulatory frameworks - ERI 2020 report

Uganda has for the third time in a row emerged as the top performer in this year’s Electricity Regulatory Index Report…

01/01/1970

2020 Peace Forum: African Development Bank to fully engage on fragility and gender issues at the first “Finance in Common” summit

The African Development Bank will take an active part in sessions on fragility, gender and climate change at the “…

01/01/1970

Partnership shapes peatland conservation strategies in Peru

This blog originally appeared on the USAID Climatelinks knowledge portal. Peru ranks as the country with the fourth-…

01/01/1970

Can healthy ecosystems prevent pandemics?

Charlotte Milbank is an interdisciplinary Ph.D. candidate in epidemiology and geography at Britain’s University of…

01/01/1970

Circular economy is the future of wood fuel production in Cameroon

This article was originally published in the print edition of the Cameroon Tribune on Aug. 25, 2020. The circular…

01/01/1970

Reflections on landscape challenges and opportunities in Kalomo

With our field work stalled by social unrest in Zambia and then the global COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to seize this…

01/01/1970

Trees: To plant or not to plant

Trees, glorious trees. Let’s plant a million, a billion, a trillion or more. Tree planting is growing into a global…

01/01/1970

Transforming Kenya’s invasive ‘mathenge’ bushes into charcoal farms

This initiative will be discussed in the session Sustainable wood-fuel value chains for food security in Sub-Saharan…

01/01/1970

Terrain through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic: Blueprint for a healthy planet

Scientists have demonstrated that such diseases as the new SARS-COV2 coronavirus COVID-19 and Ebola can emerge due to…

01/01/1970

COVID-19 pandemic: How nature steps in to refill ‘empty forests’ when animals disappear

“We must not let a forest full of trees fool us into believing that all is well.” Kent Redford’s cautionary statement…

01/01/1970

Characterizing and evaluating integrated landscape initiatives

The pressing environmental and social challenges driven by deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, poverty…

01/01/1970

Considering context in participatory forest landscape initiatives

Why do some participatory processes help level the playing field in conservation and development projects while others…

01/01/1970

Finance In Common summit rallies 450 development banks to ramp up, deepen collective efforts to address fragility beyond COVID-19

The first global summit of public development banks on Thursday showcased a collective resolve to accelerate efforts to…

01/01/1970

Ghana, African Development Bank Group sign MOU for 2021 Annual Meetings

Ghana, the host country of the African Development Bank Group’s 2021 Annual Meetings, signed a Memorandum of…

01/01/1970

African Development Bank, partners, agree to strengthen commitment to gender equality

Under the theme "Development Banks as Actors for Change towards Gender Equality," the African Development Bank’s…