Making knowledge work for forests and people
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More informationIn Bafwasende, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), leadership conflicts threatened the management of a community forest. Tropenbos DRC initiated a mediation process rooted in customary conflict resolution, rebuilding trust and setting the stage for peaceful and sustainable forest management.
The sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity opened on 21 October 2024 in Cali, Colombia. Aimed at assessing the progress made since the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Framework for Biodiversity, the conference dedicated one of its panels to the integration of traditional knowledge into other knowledge systems for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
Driven by the search for better living conditions, the rural exodus is growing by the day, on the pretext that urban centres offer more advantages in terms of income-generating activities than rural areas, which are dependent on agriculture. This rural exodus is driven more by young people (girls and boys) and capable women of working age who could have taken up farming to meet the subsistence needs of their households. But often, at the ends of the earth, the urban El Dorado is nothing more than a chimera.