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Nature For Justice Signs MOU with Kenya's State Department for Environment and Climate Change
in Support of the 15 Billion National Tree Growing Restoration Campaign
Nairobi, Kenya, May 31, 2023 –
This Framework for Collaboration establishes a strategic partnership between the Ministry of Environment & Forestry of Kenya (MEF) and the non-profit organization Nature for Justice (N4J) . The purpose is to facilitate collaboration on areas of common interest related to ecosystem restoration through nature-based solutions to combat climate change.
The key areas of cooperation include:
- Implementing nature-based solutions across various ecosystems in Kenya to support the 15 Billion National Tree Growing Restoration Campaign.
- N4J engaging in resource mobilization to promote nature-based solutions.
The principles guiding the collaboration include using the best efforts to meet the Framework’s terms and assisting each other to the extent permitted by governing laws and regulations.
There will be regular consultations, meetings, and information exchanges to review progress and plan future activities.
Nature For Justice Awarded $3 Million By USDA
N4J to work with 100 Black small-scale farmers in North Carolina to adopt Climate-Smart Agriculture
Falls Church, VA, Oct. 3, 2022 – We are pleased to announce that Nature For Justice (N4J) has been awarded $3 million as part of the USDA’s Partnerships for 70 Climate-Smart Commodities and Rural Projects. These funds will be used to assist 100 small-scale Black-owned farms in central North Carolina to adopt Climate-Smart Agricultural practices (CSAF) across approximately 5,000 acres to sequester an estimated 90,000 MT CO2e over five years.
“This is an important award. These funds will help N4J provide much-needed technical assistance and climate-smart marketing support to Black farmers in North Carolina who traditionally operate with little financial or technical support,” said Clarenda Stanley, Nature For Justice Managing Director – Farmer Inclusion.
N4J will coordinate community networks in central North Carolina to connect the 100 Black-owned farmers to resources for CSAF implementation. N4J has established an Inclusive Climate Resilience Network (ICRNet) there to focus on providing small-scale, Black farmers access to climate services. These services include favorable finance, climate information and training, technical assistance, market aggregation, and political influence to empower proactive climate action for climate resilience.
N4J will identify an on-site staff manager in each location to coordinate efforts. This person will conduct outreach and training in the ICRNet hub beginning year 1.
The N4J project is part of the The Soil Inventory Project (TSIP) with the Meridian Institute as fiscal sponsor. TSIP is a component of USDA Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities. The overall project will work with 444 producers to implement CSAF on 121,480 acres across the US, sequestering an estimated 292,530 MT CO2e. It quantifies specific CSAF impacts to unlock consumer demand and catalyze market mechanisms to scale CSAF beyond the project term.
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N4J In The News
Liberty woman grows brand for equity
“Stanley, a native of rural Alabama, is paying her knowledge forward by helping other women, mostly Black, create financially and environmentally sustainable farming businesses.
“I didn’t set out to be part of a movement. It kind of just came with the territory,” Stanley said. Fox 8, Greensboro, NCLa vue de Montreal: Biodiversity gets its moment at COP15
“Nitah says the forests and other ecosystems in the Northwest Territories can sequester so much carbon as to make them ‘globally significant. Let’s invest in what’s proven: nature. And let’s recognize the responsibility that Indigenous people have exercised while fighting for their rights and to preserve their lands.'” GreenBiz
The Push to Conserve 30 Percent of the Planet: What’s at Stake?
“There are no better teachers today than Indigenous peoples,” says Steven Nitah, who is also a former tribal leader of the Łutsel Kʼe Dene First Nation in northwestern Canada. Council on Foreign Relations
How Indigenous-led conservation could help Canada meet its land and water protection targets
Steven Nitah in a CBC article, “Indigenous nations that are advancing their own protected and conserved areas really have to drive their agenda,” he said. “They have to own what they want to create.”
Indigenous conservation is key to protecting wilderness in Canada, report says
Steven Nitah in The Globe And Mail, “Noting that Canada could be looking to international carbon markets as a way to help support conservation on Indigenous lands, Mr. Nitah said. ‘Why not tie them together as an opportunity?'”
N.W.T. forests absorb more carbon than territory emits — most of the time
In CBC News article, Steven Nitah “said the fact forests and other types of ecosystems in the N.W.T. can sequester so much carbon makes them ‘globally significant.’ He said this fact should not be considered a license for the territory to continue emitting the same amount of carbon dioxide into the air.
Nitah also said that there is ‘definitely’ more carbon stored below ground in the N.W.T. than above.” French version.
