Agriculture & Rural Development

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Restoring the Ecological Foundation for Food Security: A Soil Organic Matter Perspective

Gervase Poulden uploaded a new Document | 1 July 2013

restoring_the_ecological_foundation_for.pdf 1.68 MB

Publication Date: June 2013 Food security globally is highly dependent on crop production, which has been subjected to increasing pressures emanating from both an increasing demand for food and a deteriorating health of the agricultural ecosystem. Restoration of the ecological foundation for crop...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Greening Trade Imperative for Sustainable Development

Gervase Poulden uploaded a new Document | 27 June 2013

greening_trade.pdf 11.42 MB

Publication Date: May 2013 This report argues that greening global trade is a vital step towards achieving sustainable development, and developing countries with abundant renewable resources are well-positioned to capitalize on the opportunities to increase their share in international markets for...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Smallholders, Food Security and the Environment Report

Gervase Poulden uploaded a new Document | 26 June 2013

smallholderreport_web.pdf 2.17 MB

Publication Date: June 2013 This report states that supporting smallholder farmers to play a greater role in food production and natural resource stewardship is one of the quickest ways to lift over one billion people out of poverty and sustainably nourish a growing world population. Most of the 1...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Creating a Sustainable Food Future, Installment Two: Reducing Food Loss and Waste

Gervase Poulden uploaded a new Document | 26 June 2013

wri_reducing_food_loss_and_waste.pdf 1.12 MB

Publication Date: June 2013 About 24 percent of all calories currently produced for human consumption are lost or wasted. This paper examines the implications of this amount of loss and waste, profiles a number of approaches for reducing it, and puts forth five recommendations for how to move...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Balancing economic development and protecting the cradle of mankind - Lake Turkana basin

Gervase Poulden uploaded a new Document | 26 June 2013

balancing_economic_development_and_protecting_the_cradle_of_mankind_-_lake_turkana_basin.pdf 2.19 MB

Publication Date: June 2013 This paper calls for cooperation on Omo-Turkana transboundary water issues. A number of transboundary water agreements exist in Africa. However, many of these agreements are limited to larger basins such as the Nile, Niger, Senegal or Volta. There are very few...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Climate and Clean Air Coalition at EU Green Week 2013

James Morris posted Information | 26 June 2013

Fast action to reduce short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), such as black carbon and methane, has the potential to prevent a significant proportion of the estimated 6 million deaths annually from air-pollution related disease, avoid annual crop losses of over 30 million tons annually, and slow...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Kristine Stubberud commented on information | 25 June 2013

Announcing Availability of Expanded No-Fee Expert Advice to All LEDS GP Country Teams

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Announcing Availability of Expanded No-Fee Expert Advice to All LEDS GP Country Teams

Laura Giappichelli updated the Information | 19 June 2013

The Low Emissions Development Strategies (LEDS) Global Partnership is pleased to announce our newly expanded, no-fee remote Expert Assistance service. With this new service, government agencies and technical institutes working with governments can receive remote consultation and advice on LEDS...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
EUROCLIMA: Science and Policy Jointly Fighting Climate Change

Laura Giappichelli updated the Information | 18 June 2013

EUROCLIMA has just released this video, available in both Spanish and English, which summarises the main actions that they have been working on in the Latin America region. Spanish Version English Version For more information please visit the EUROCLIMA website .

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Europeaid climate change sector scripts

Laura Giappichelli updated the Information | 18 June 2013

The series of “sector scripts” on the response to climate change in the context of development and external cooperation programmes was developed by EuropeAid.

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy

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