http://rmportal.net daily 1 2009-07-09T15:21:27Z http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-nrmd-video-spotlight/i-am-congo The Enough Project's Raise Hope for Congo Campaign is proud to present "I Am Congo", a video series that has been months in the making. "I Am Congo" features five amazing people living in eastern Congo amid the deadliest war in the world. These are their stories, in their own words. No publisher webeditor News: USAID NRMD Video Spotlight 2012-05-02T19:21:22Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-nrmd-video-spotlight/hillary-rodham-clinton-secretary-of-state-remarks-in-honor-of-world-water-day Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, speaks on March 22, 2012. at George C. Marshall Auditorium. Washington, DC, in honor of World Water Day. No publisher webeditor News: USAID NRMD Video Spotlight 2012-03-28T13:52:12Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-nrmd-video-spotlight/video-turtle-tagging-and-searching-for-dugongs In the Eastern-most corner of The Coral Triangle, we find Tetepare - the biggest uninhabited island in the Solomon Islands. This is because the descendants of Tetepare's original headhunting inhabitants have chosen conservation instead of logging for this island which is surrounded by some of the richest marine life in the Coral Triangle. Through local partners WWF, USAID supports the Tetepare Descendants Association's 3,500 members to draw upon their traditional knowledge in the preservation of this unique seascape. In this short film, we meet some of the local people from Tetepare. Twomey and his neighbors manage and monitor these waters, to ensure the long-term future for the ecosystem and vital marine resources that they need. No publisher webeditor CTI Solomon Islands Dugongs News: USAID NRMD Video Spotlight Climate Change Ecosystems Conservation Tetepare Coral Triangle Marine Reserve Fish 2012-03-27T21:06:41Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-nrmd-video-spotlight/beauty-and-the-beef-achieving-compatibility-between-wildlife-conservation-and-livestock-production African farmers living in areas with wildlife are faced with a serious dilemma: they cannot sell their healthy, free range beef to the lucrative export market. Current international trade practices dictate that they cannot protect the wildlife and, at the same time, farm their cattle in the same general area. If they want to export their beef to wealthy nations, they will have to get rid of all the wild buffalo or put up environmentally damaging veterinary fences. Robin Lyonga lives in the spectacular and largely unspoiled environment of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area. He and his community are poor. What should he choose when trying to lift himself and his community out of poverty: protecting the wildlife and pursuing opportunities related to ecotourism and trophy hunting, or turning his back on conservation and selling his cattle into the lucrative beef export market? The truth is that there is a win-win solution: Robin Lyonga and his community can earn an income from conservation and sell their beef to the export market. All that is needed to enable this potentially bright future for millions of African cattle farmers is a small but very significant change in attitude and policy on the part of wealthy beef-importing nations. No publisher webeditor News: USAID NRMD Video Spotlight 2012-02-27T18:23:32Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-nrmd-video-spotlight/usaid-ecuador-sustainable-forests-and-coasts-project More than 900 families in Ecuador depend on crabbing in the mangroves of the Gulf of Guayaquil. These same mangroves mitigate global warming and contribute to global carbon sequestration efforts. The Gulf is one of six sites where the USAID Sustainable Forests and Coasts project is conserving biodiversity and protecting natural resources from depletion. In this case, the project works with the Ministry of the Environment and crabbing communities to protect the $60 million in crabbing related activities while preventing mangrove deforestation. See how over 60,000 hectares are being protected as well as how the project is helping communities receive a higher price for their crab meat sales. No publisher webeditor News: USAID NRMD Video Spotlight 2012-03-28T14:29:48Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-nrmd-video-spotlight/video-social-dimensions-of-redd-current-practices-and-challenges Videos from the USAID Forest Carbon, Markets, and Communities (FCMC) Program's open public forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC (21 October 2011), which followed and summarized a three-day Experts Workshop on these issues (16-19 October 2011). No publisher webeditor News: USAID NRMD Video Spotlight 2012-02-04T03:58:24Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-nrmd-video-spotlight/without-borders-video “Without Borders” is a 30 minute documentary film exploring the environmental context of the Upper Guinea Forest Ecosystem of West Africa. No publisher webeditor Featured in USAID RM Portal Video Spotlight: October 3, 2011 Environment Mining Natural Resources News: USAID NRMD Video Spotlight Africa News: USAID NRMD Portal News Forestry Featured Video Spotlight Deforestation STEWARD Program Conservation Forest Bushmeat Biodiversity Conservation 2012-03-28T05:12:06Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-nrmd-video-spotlight/ugandan-singer-promotes-biodiversity-conservation-and-sustainable-tourism-to-ugandans This music video “Oh Uganda” features Ugandan celebrity songwriter, singer and guitarist Aziz Azion accompanied by the Mwamba Children Choir. The USAID-STAR program (Sustainable Tourism in the Albertine Rift), helped to develop this captivating music video to promote the destination of Uganda. No publisher webeditor Featured in the USAID RM Portal Video Spotlight September 20, 2011 News: USAID NRMD Video Spotlight Featured Video Spotlight 2011-10-25T20:46:15Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-nrmd-video-spotlight/success-in-nepal WORTH Program Nepal Success Story No publisher webeditor Copyright © 2011 Pact Empowerment Economics Women in Development Economic Growth News: USAID NRMD Video Spotlight Women 2012-03-27T20:46:33Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-nrmd-video-spotlight/moroccos-solution-to-water-scarcity Water is getting scarce. Agriculture is the number one user of water worldwide. If dry areas of the world aren't careful, their agriculture will soon be in big trouble. Morocco is a good example of a country that has woken up to its water problems. No publisher portaladmin FAO Development Water Management Water Resources News: USAID NRMD Video Spotlight Agriculture 2011-08-31T16:59:02Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-nrmd-video-spotlight/pastoralist-voices-on-climate-change Pastoralist Voices on Climate Change illustrates the collaborative and participatory process between scientists and pastoralists in Kenya, documenting two collaborative workshops whereby local land users directly inform the scientific process and climate change science, which, in turn, feeds back to local decision-making. No publisher webeditor Featured in the USAID RM Portal Video Spotlight July 13, 2011 News: USAID NRMD Video Spotlight Featured Video Spotlight 2011-10-25T20:34:08Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-nrmd-video-spotlight/soy-iacc-what-do-you-like-most-about-your-job (Que es lo que mas te gusta de tu trabajo?) FONDAM employee, Ana Cecilia Pere No publisher webeditor Featured in the USAID RM Portal Video Spotlight June 17, 2011 News: USAID NRMD Video Spotlight Featured Video Spotlight 2011-10-25T20:33:30Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-nrmd-video-spotlight/servir-mesoamerica-highlights-environmental-changes CATHALAC, host of the Regional Visualization and Monitoring System known as SERVIR-Mesoamerica, displays map animations of climate change impacts on biodiversity, incidences of Category 5 hurricanes from 1850 to 2008, fires from 2003 to 2009, and forest cover change in Central and South America. No publisher webeditor Featured in the USAID RM POrtal Video Spotlight May 3, 2011 News: USAID NRMD Video Spotlight Featured Video Spotlight 2011-10-25T20:36:31Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-nrmd-video-spotlight/management-effectiveness-of-the-worlds-marine-fisheries Global fisheries are in crisis: marine fisheries provide 15% of the animal protein consumed by humans, yet 80% of the world's fish stocks are either fully exploited, overexploited or have collapsed. Several international initiatives have sought to improve the management of marine fisheries, hoping to reduce the deleterious ecological and socioeconomic consequence of the crisis. Unfortunately, the extent to which countries are improving their management and whether such intervention ensures the sustainability of the fisheries remain unknown. This video describes the paper by Mora C, Myers RA, Coll M, Libralato S, Pitcher TJ, et al. (2009); & Management Effectiveness of the World's Marine Fisheries which quantified the management effectiveness of the world's fisheries regimes and how management affects fisheries sustainability. All countries in the world were found to be far behind good standards of management while pressures on policy processes had the strongest role on the fade of sustainability. No publisher webeditor Featured in the USAID RM Portal Video Spotlight April 14, 2011 News: USAID NRMD Video Spotlight Featured Video Spotlight 2011-10-25T20:38:49Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-nrmd-video-spotlight/tapping-cambodia2019s-water-market USAID's Water Investment Strategy. No publisher webeditor Featured in the USAID RM POrtal Video Spotlight March 25, 2011 News: USAID NRMD Video Spotlight Water Investment 2011-10-28T05:01:50Z News Item