A few highlights from grantee partners:

• Catholic Diocese of Kakamega supported communities in the Maragoli Hills region of Kenya to plant indigenous tree nurseries to reforest land destroyed by extractive logging industries. The project educated local communities about the importance of reforesting as a climate solution, and supported community reconnection with ancestral lands—helping the community to relate to and use materials from the newly planted trees in more sustainable ways. Read more on the Global Greengrants blog.
• iTaukei Women in Conservation (iTWC) in Fiji trained Indigenous Anitioki women and youth to build community-led greenhouses to diversify plantings disrupted by sea level rise and coastal erosion due to climate change. They prioritized growing fruit trees from resilient, indigenous seeds—providing greater long-term food security. Read more on the Global Greengrants blog.
• Rural Sustainable Development Agricultural Foundation trained women in Kotayk, Armenia on pesticide-free agricultural techniques. Kotayk is a leading agricultural region where use of harmful pesticides is widespread, and women have less access to economic participation. These efforts promoted safer agricultural practices in the region, and bolstered local women’s agricultural abilities and economic access for the long-term.
• Satirinaka Yungas in Bolivia restored family farms degraded by extractive agricultural practices. Training local women to use native seeds and ancestral agricultural techniques resulted in more climate resilient crops and increased biodiversity, and reconnected women with their ancestral culture.
• Sea the Change in Falmouth, Jamaica, rallied youth in their community to transform a private family property into a thriving community-managed protected area focused on leisure and biodiversity conservation. This effort preserved critical mangrove ecosystems and offered alternative use of land that benefited the community and increased biodiversity. Read more on the Global Greengrants blog.

Global Greengrants invests in community-powered solutions to strengthen grassroots movements’ long-term resilience.