A nonprofit organization committed to global development and education, IREX has focused on people and communities since 1968.Our organization was created to bridge geopolitical divides by fostering the exchange of scholars, teachers, students, and ideas. IREX then built on our expertise and network of relationships in Eurasia to support people driving educational reform, leading newly empowered movements in civil society, and building effective…

EFN’s Reforestation Grant Program focuses on supporting communities in regaining ecological integrity and enhancing human wellbeing in deforested and degraded landscapes through forest restoration. EFN is looking for organizations that will use this workshop opportunity to connect corridors, create buffer zones, improve degraded lands, restore watersheds, and expand forest cover while also allowing local stakeholders to connect with nature and…

At the UNCCD COP14 recently held in Delhi India, the Capacity Building Marketplace (CBM) featured strongly through its side-event "Talking Capacity Building and You. A chance to share and to receive!" which took place on 6th of September. The CBM team of Jairo (Colombia), Ali (Pakistan), Jorge (Spain), Lilia (Russia), Loretta (Ghana), and Paul (France) had worked -under the guidance of CBM Manager, Dr. Richard A. Byron-Cox- for weeks organizing…

Desertification, land degradation and drought, along with climate change and the loss of biodiversity, were identified as the greatest challenges to sustainable development during the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. Established in 1994, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is the sole legally binding international agreement linking environment and development to sustainable land management. The aim of the GLO is to communicate…

CLICCS is an ambitious research program at Universität Hamburg and its partner institutions. The program aims to understand climate changes, taking into account internal variability, extreme events, and unexpected side effects, addressing the natural and social spheres as well as their interactions. Thus CLICCS’ overarching research question is: which climate futures are possible and which are plausible? CLICCS will investigate how climate…

The Land Matrix is an independent global land monitoring initiative that promotes transparency and accountability in decisions over land and investments. It does so by collecting and visualising information about large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) and facilitating an open development community of citizens, researchers, policy-makers, and technology specialists. Regional Focal Points (RFPs) in four different regions around the globe are…

The project aims to develop the planning and implementation capacities to rehabilitate peatland ecosystems in the Kayan Sembakung Delta, North Kalimantan, has been supported through government to government cooperation between the government of Indonesia and the government of the Federal Republic of Germany. The project responded to the current land-use planning and practices in the Kayan Sembakung Delta which are considered insufficient to…

The overall objective of the consultancy is to provide support to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture (MEPA) in capacity development and the international expert in elaboration an institutional structure of the LEPL National Sustainable Land Management and Land Use Monitoring Agency. The aim of the initiative is to assist the Agency to effectively implement its functions assigned by the new legislation using modern…

The Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA) offers highly-qualified candidates (PhD) the chance to research on the historical ecology and biodiversity conservation of ancient forests in protected mountain areas based in Saint Martin, France. The major aim of the position is to understand land use legacies on current forest soil and biodiversity and to clarify the potential…

This innovative three-year LIFE Preparatory project runs from 2018 to 2021. It explores the potential of new approaches and learning methods to improve knowledge and build capacity amongst Natura 2000 site managers in both public and private land, across the EU. The project will examine the competencies required to manage Natura 2000 more effectively. It will support your professional development needs, enable you to connect with your peers and…

On 6-11 October 2019, the 7th International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter will be held in South Australia. The conference theme, “Soil Organic Matter (SOM) in a Stressed World” has the dual objectives of better understanding and quantifying the functions that SOM sustains in both natural and managed systems, and understanding the stressors that impact on both its stability, and its ability to continue to deliver these key ecosystem functions…

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in collaboration with the Institute for Poverty, Land & Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is offering in-country/in-region scholarships, within the Network of Excellence for Land Governance in Africa (NELGA). This forms part of the Strengthening Advisory Capacities for Land Governance in Africa (SLGA) programme funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation…