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🌿 The Infrastructure Enabled Edible Landscape (IEEL) Following our work at Fr Angelus Park, Westport, Food Forests Ireland CLG is continuing to develop the IEEL with communities around Clew Bay. This growing network of food forests lies at the heart of the landscape, helping restore nature, produce food and build resilience. 💬 Our recent community gathering brought local community groups and supporters together to share knowledge, strengthen connections and deepen commitment to this important work. The energy and collaboration showed how powerful community led climate action can be. The IEEL project is more than just a local initiative. It is an exemplar for similar public infrastructure projects across Ireland, demonstrating how food forests and edible landscapes can be embedded into our shared spaces for the benefit of people and nature. 🌱 Our vision is to support communities nationwide in creating resilient edible landscapes that connect people to the land and help adapt to climate change. We’re proud to be working with local communities and the support of Community Foundation Ireland to bring this vision to life. 📍 Learn more and get involved: www.foodforests.ie Community Foundation Ireland #RealClimateAction #FoodForests #NatureBasedSolutions #Biodiversity #Adaptation #Ireland #CircularBioeconomy #Community #ClewBay #Mulranny #Westport #Louisburgh #InishTurk #ClareIsland #Murrisk #Lecanvey #Newport #Achill

💧 When communities take part in managing shared rivers, lasting change begins. Farmers, civil society and businesses from Eswatini, Mozambique and South Africa are now helping shape how their shared waters are governed through the new IncoMaputo Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP), a milestone in transboundary water cooperation. Built on two years of dialogue and trust building, this platform turns collaboration into action and gives local voices real influence in decisions that cross borders. Learn how collective stewardship is reshaping one of Southern Africa’s shared river basins 👉 on.cgiar.org/4ox4g8O Ryan Nehring | Buyani Fakudze | Jonathan Lautze | CGIAR | CGIAR Policy Innovations | Incomati and Maputo Watercourse Commission - INMACOM #WaterGovernance #TransboundaryWater #CommunityAction #IncoMaputo #SouthernAfrica

Mangroves do more than hold the shore together, they bring communities together. Building on the success of our 7,000-hectare reforestation project in Senegal, we’re expanding our blue carbon program to Guinea Conakry’s Konkouré Delta. Developed through ALLCOT – A Karbon-X Company, this new initiative strengthens coastal resilience, biodiversity, and local livelihoods across West Africa. Teams are now working with communities in Guinea to identify restoration areas and begin consultation activities, supported by regional training sessions held in Senegal. This is restoration and regeneration in action. Together, we’re turning climate ambition into measurable, lasting impact. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gjTcCMue #KarbonX #ALLCOT #BlueCarbon #Guinea #Mangroves #Sustainability #CarbonMarkets #NatureBasedSolutions

Incredible work from ALLCOT – A Karbon-X Company. This is what real climate leadership looks like, projects that protect coastlines, empower communities, and turn science into real action. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g9vavaWs

🌊 We are supporting Ducks Unlimited Canada in reducing phosphorus pollution to #LakeWinnipeg. 🧪 Funded by the Lake Winnipeg Freshwater Ecosystem Initiative, this research project will: ✅protect existing wetland habitat ✅restore degraded ones ✅support outreach efforts ✅encourage better management practices Lake Winnipeg is one of Canada’s most vital freshwater bodies. Learn more about how we are tackling its most pressing challenges: https://ow.ly/gQ3W50XgsnZ

The SURAGGWA project in Nigeria is set to enhance resilience and revive degraded landscapes by improving policy alignment, expanding inclusive options for nature-based and climate-smart livelihoods, and engaging communities, partners, and sustainable funding to restore the environment and support resilient communities!

Restoring life where land meets sea. Powered by partnership, the ABC Mangrove Project in Senegal has now surpassed 7,000 hectares of restored coastal ecosystems, advancing blue-carbon restoration led by local communities. Learn more about this milestone in our press release: https://hubs.la/Q03QvkMs0 #ABCMangrove #MangroveRestoration #Sustainability #CommunityImpact #PressRelease #ALLCOT #KarbonX

Developed through ALLCOT- A Karbon-X Company, the ABC Mangrove Project is restoring life to Senegal's coastlines while supporting local communities. Read the press release: https://lnkd.in/eWp3uKET

Our team of water experts manage Collective Action Projects through the Water Roadmap, tackling shared water challenges in key food sourcing regions across the globe. In this short update, our Water Specialist Sean Herd-Hoare shares the latest impact from the UK Food and Drink Pact’s Water Roadmap project in South Africa’s Western Cape – one of the UK’s most important fruit-growing regions – where collective action is: 🏞️ Restoring rivers to improve environmental flow for agriculture 🌳 Clearing invasive vegetation and replanting native species to boost biodiversity and water availability 🍊 Protecting shared water resources for food production 💧 Supporting better water management and data sharing across catchments 💼 Creating jobs for water restoration, supporting communities on the ground Watch Sean’s update and read how we’re delivering measurable impact for water availability and health in South Africa: https://bit.ly/3Wro7KN #UKFoodAndDrinkPact #FutureProofFood #CircularLiving #WaterRoadmap WWF South Africa

When the U.S. scaled back its funding in Africa, it exposed a hard truth: philanthropy has too often fostered reliance, not resilience. This is not a call to return to dependency - it’s a call to rewire conservation finance. Beyond tourism, new financial instruments like Biodiversity Bonds and Payments for Ecosystem Services are turning ecological value into investable returns. 🌍As Tofauti founder Crista Cullen MBE puts it "Africa is not just a victim of donor retreat, it’s a laboratory for the future of conservation finance. The question is whether the world will recognise that in time." 👉 Read more: https://lnkd.in/ehsRFptM #ConservationFinance #ImpactInvestment #NaturalCapital #Africa #Resilience #TogetherWeMakeADifference