Sustainable environment

Betty Mkusa, a farmer in Malawi, shows farmers from neighbouring communities around her vegetable garden (photo © Marcus Perkins/Progressio)

Unsustainable patterns of global production and consumption, especially in the North, are creating a perfect storm of climate change, environmental degradation and resource scarcity for many poor and marginalised communities.

We support vulnerable people to improve their quality of life through a more equitable and sustainable management of natural resources. So from supporting small-holder farmers in Malawi to helping communities draft forestry law in Honduras we’re helping to bring about a fairer, more sustainable use of the earth’s finite resources.

More widely, we support poor people to bring their voices and experiences of environmental vulnerability to international debates and to influence international policies at forums like the UN. We also help people in the UK to engage with these issues and take action for environmental justice.