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Nuanced and Equitable: Mercy Corps’ Approach to Food Security and the Livestock Emissions Debate
By Tracey Compton, Senior Media Communications Coordinator, Mercy Corps
February 2022, Baidoa, Somalia. Dhagan Aclan Aalan holds one of her last surviving goats, in front of her family’s temporary shelter. They are staying at an IDP camp among the scrub brush outside Baidoa. Farmers are watching crops die, leaving nothing to sell or eat. Grazing land has dried up, leaving pastoralists without food or water to feed their livestock herds. As people are forced to migrate and resources are scarce, conflict is likely to increase, further disrupting food systems. Photo: Ezra Millstein/Mercy Corps
October 2024
Mercy Corps is adding a critical perspective to the livestock emissions debate, emphasizing the potential benefits of pastoralists, or those who move herds across land, in drylands and opening a pathway toward food security previously often overlooked by dominant climate narratives.
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Landesa
By Joel Meyers
Secure land rights in Bong County, Liberia enable communities to grow food for sustenance and income. Photo: Landesa
Landesa advances pro-poor, gender-sensitive land rights reforms through law and policy tools. These reforms have helped alleviate poverty, reduce hunger, and ease conflict over land for more than 180 million families. Secure rights to land boost agricultural productivity, improve health, nutrition and school enrollment, and have placed billions of dollars in new land wealth in the hands of rural people.
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Strength in Numbers: How Neena Joshi is Elevating Asia’s Women Farmers
By Amber Cortes
Neena Joshi, Senior Vice President of Asia Programs, Heifer International. Photo: Heifer
Heifer’s new Senior Vice President of Asia Programs, Neena Joshi, is used to being around strong women.
Born and raised in Kathmandu, Joshi says her childhood was vibrant and exciting.
“I was a typical city girl, that was my life,” Joshi says.
The house was alive with intellectual and political conversations, from guests of her father, a noted writer, poet, and activist.