Droughts and Floods

The ‘Climate Witness’ Film: The Voices of the Climate Crisis Solutions

At midnight on April 4, 2021, Cyclone Seroja hit East Nusa Tenggara Province, leaving behind sorrow and trauma. The cyclone left 181 people dead, 184 injured, 26 missing, 50,000 people without homes, and 466,000 people directly affected. The climate crisis is not a tale but a reality, having a bad impact on the earth and humans.

Tunisia: Agricultural Land, Endangered

Agricultural lands make up 62% of Tunisia’s total surface area. But every year, over 20 million hectares of these lands disappear due to erosion and urbanisation. The social and environmental consequences of this dual phenomenon are irreversible.

The power of South-South collaboration and peer learning: SSN’s Knowledge Partner Gathering

From 26 February to 2 March, the District 6 Homecoming Center in Cape Town was abuzz with excitement, collaboration and ideation as, for the first time, SSN, through the Voices for Just Climate Action (VCA) programme, hosted an in-person Knowledge Partners Gathering workshop with our in-country partners from Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Indonesia, Tunisia, Zambia and Kenya.

An insider’s view on just climate action in Brazil

Paula Moreira is a programme manager at Hivos in Brazil. She runs our Voices for Just Climate Action (VCA) programme, working with local communities to make their voices heard in national and global discussions on the climate crisis. She talks about climate change in Brazil, how it affects its people, and the work Hivos is doing to fight it.

Increasing Importance of Sustainable Food Systems during COP

It has been nearly two months since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) at Dubai’s Expo City in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Expectations had been high ahead of COP28 on progress on negotiations on sustainable food systems, particularly as the UN Food Systems Summit, UN 2023 Water Conference and the COP28 Presidency had committed to achieve net-zero, nature-positive and resilient agri-food and water systems.

Climate justice badly needed by the people around Lake Turkana in Kenya

Hivos was invited to visit Indigenous communities around Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Vincent Mogaka, project officer for the Voices for Just Climate Action (VCA) programme in East Africa, saw firsthand how local communities remain neglected in the face of the climate crisis. Here’s his account of the visit.