The Himalayan region is facing a new crisis under climate change, rapid economic transformation, and escalating geopolitical tensions. A large body of Himalayan sciences has endeavored to understand this challenge but has failed to engage meaningfully with the local...
As the world becomes urbanised and climate impact gets worse, water insecurity looms large around the world. As one of the flagship initiatives of IFSD, Water Security seeks to nurture and promote practices and institutions for enhancing water security in...
As nearly half of the people live in the cities, human’s relationship with trees has become primarily an urban phenomenon. In the urban landscapes, every tree and its parts are considered in the design and planning work. The challenge in planning is – how we ensure...
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 set the global vision for a sustainable and equitable change across the planet. Achieving these goals requires significantly charing current practices, policies, and cultures. Such deep changes are often interpreted as...
United Nations states that nearly 690 million people are hungry today, which is 8.9 percent of the world population. The UN further states that the world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030, as outlined by Sustainable Development Goal 2. On the...
The Asia-Pacific region is predicted to have a population of 5.2 billion by 2050 and host 22 megacities by 2030. Under climate change and population growth, up to 3.4 billion people could be living in water-stressed areas of Asia by 2050, according to the Asian...
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By Basundhara Bhattarai | 18 September 2023 It was a fine day in July 2023 when I (along with my team members) was in a village in Timor Leste, situated northeast of Aileu town, a two-hour drive from the capital city of Dili. The road we travelled on was mostly...
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