Collaborators with skin in the game: Learning about the use of sport to...
This 2024 USAID Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Case Competition winner is about the USAID Khetha Program, “Protecting Wildlife, Benefiting Communities."
View ArticleWildlife Asia (Reducing Demand for Wildlife)
The Wildlife Asia activity works with local and international partners to address wildlife trafficking in Southeast Asia and China by reducing consumer demand for wildlife parts and products,...
View Article2023 West Philippine Seascape Civil Society Summit
The 2023 Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Summit for the Conservation of the West Philippine Seascape (WPS) in the South China Sea brought together for the first time over 50 CSOs who have stakes in...
View ArticleThe Blue Swimming Crab Partnership in the Visayan Sea
This brief documents the complex challenge of improving Blue Swimming Crab (BSC) management at various scales, as part of an overall ecosystems approach to fisheries management.
View ArticleHandbook for Peer Educators: Promoting Sustainable Fisheries
This handbook provides peer educators tools to educate others on topics related to fisheries management, to champion and advocate for sustainable fisheries, and engaging with and urging support from...
View ArticleResponsible Seafood Sourcing Gains Momentum in the Philippines
“Sustainable seafood” in the Philippines used to mean mostly imported seafood destined for high-end hotel chains. That is until recently, when more supply chain players adopted the Responsible Seafood...
View ArticleConservation Enterprise Impact Lab 2024: Harnessing a Theory of Change for...
From May to September 2024, nine activity teams—including USAID staff and implementing partners—from seven countries across Latin America, Africa, and Asia participated in the fourth iteration of the...
View ArticleConservation Enterprise Impact Lab 2024: Harnessing a Theory of Change for...
From May to September 2024, nine activity teams—including USAID staff and implementing partners—from seven countries across Latin America, Africa, and Asia participated in the fourth iteration of the...
View ArticleUnlocking Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for Sustainable Cocoa Production
Recent studies have shown consumer sustainability demands are rising, and the cocoa industry is no exception.
View ArticleMaking a Plan to Conserve the Gray-Shanked Douc Langur in Vietnam
Song Thanh National Park is one of Vietnam’s largest special-use forests, which are protected areas designated for conserving biodiversity, ecosystems, and cultural heritage, while also allowing for...
View ArticleFirst Responsible Seafood Summit
USAID hosted the first Responsible Seafood Summit, gathering over 200 participants from the seafood industry, civil society organizations, and government agencies at the Novotel Manila Araneta City on...
View ArticleOne Health, Many Perspectives: Exploring Indigenous and Western Epistemologies
The objective of this project is to identify values in Indigenous science that are unsupported or underrepresented in Western science and then collaboratively ideate recommendations that Western allies...
View ArticleEvidence for Widespread Human Exposure to Food Contact Chemicals
Over 1800 food contact chemicals (FCCs) are known to migrate from food contact articles used to store, process, package, and serve foodstuffs. Humans are known to be exposed to FCCs via foods, but the...
View ArticleUnderstanding How and Where Pathogens Emerge: Preparedness and Response for...
This chapter will examine what we know about how and where zoonotic disease threats emerge and key gaps in the information needed for preparedness, both before an outbreak and in emergency response.
View ArticleThe Economic Impacts of Ecosystem Disruptions: Costs from Substituting...
This work makes a contribution to our understanding of the relationship between ecosystem functioning and human well-being by using a natural experiment—an occurrence resulting from unexpected changes...
View ArticlePlanetary Health Learning Objectives: Foundational Knowledge for Global...
In response to member demands for resources to support teaching and learning related to planetary health, the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) convened a working group to develop a...
View ArticleNavigating New Horizons: A Global Foresight Report on Planetary Health and...
This Navigating New Horizons report outlines a process focused on planetary health and human wellbeing—an intentional framing to expand the range of issues and informed views that typically shape...
View ArticleSurprising New Research Links Infant Mortality to Crashing Bat Populations
According to the research, published Thursday in the journal Science, farmers in affected U.S. counties increased their use of insecticides by 31 percent when bat populations declined. In those places,...
View ArticleWhere and How to Invest in Greenspace for Optimal Health Benefits: A...
Research on the relationship between greenspace morphology and health is a growing field that informs the spatial design of greenspace to enhance health outcomes. This study reviews the current...
View ArticleCaptive Wildlife Management Survey in Vietnam, 2015–2021
In Vietnam, breeding and raising a wide range of wildlife species in captive wildlife facilities are common practices but little information on the captive wildlife population is available. The authors...
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