Meet the Initiatives for Land Lives and Peace (ILLP) network
Caux Dialogue on Land and Security
30/04/2019ILLP aims to deepen understanding of links between land degradation and human security and to build the trust needed for effective collaboration on the ground and in ‘land-peace partnerships’. As a programme of Initiatives of Change International, it inspires, equips and connects people to address world needs, starting with themselves.
Among other activities, each year ILLP organizes the Caux Dialogue on Land and Security, part of the Caux Forum, in the Swiss village of Caux, in collaboration with Initiatives of Change Switzerland, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The CDLS is much more than an annual Dialogue. It is located at the centre of a growing network of practitioners working on every aspect of human security and ecosystem restoration. They support each other, inform each other, and collaborate with each other.
Meet some of the people who have been impacted by the CDLS in the past years:
- Patrick Worms: World Agroforestry Centre Nairobi/Kenya: Hard issues in a magical setting
- Alan Channer: A film-makers call to "land, lives and peace"
- Sai Kishore Nellore: Empowering small farmers
- Ash Domah: A passion to green the dessert
- Iman Al Ghafari: Starting from the individual in Syria
- Ian Barasch: Prophet of green compassion
- Ben Callison: Loving more than the solutions
- Jennifer Helgeson: The magic of Caux
- Alan Laubsch: Restoring nature's superheros
- Hartmut Behrend: Combatting climate change in Mali
- Chau Tang Duncan: Bridging the financial divides
- Conrad Sangma: Meghalaya's lighthouses of sustainable development
- Aibanshngain Swer: Protecting Meghalaya's water sources
- Tom Duncan: Empowering communities to restore mangroves
- Nhat Vhuong: Plucking water from the air
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