Sustainable Forest Management

Environment and ecosystem management are key to ensuring urban and rural development and progress towards the achievement of the MDGs. Poor communities directly depend on natural resources for their livelihood and are the most vulnerable to a degraded environment, natural disasters and are the first to suffer from polluted air, water and soil. Sound natural resource use is at the core of effective strategies to strengthen resilience to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Afforestation - Agroforestry - Forest concessions - Forest governance - Forest industries - Forest management - Forestry education/training - Forestry research - Forestry services - Fuelwood/charcoal - Illegal timber trade & forest crime - Timber regulation - Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA)

Next Steps for Green Economy

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 26 August 2013

At last year's Rio+20 sustainable development conference, Green Economy emerged as one of the two main issues, alongside strengthening the institutional framework for sustainable development. But how can we translate what has been referred to as the ‘rather abstract’ concept of Green Economy...

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Next Steps for Green Economy

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 26 August 2013

At last year's Rio+20 sustainable development conference, Green Economy emerged as one of the two main issues, alongside strengthening the institutional framework for sustainable development. But how can we translate what has been referred to as the ‘rather abstract’ concept of Green Economy...

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Declining Bee Numbers: Measures to Protect the Pollinators in Africa and Asia

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 19 August 2013

As the crucial role of bees as pollinators of the world’s food supply is increasingly becoming common knowledge, reports about the serious decline of honeybee populations in Europe and the USA have alarmed governments, the private sector and the general public. A similar decline in Africa and Asia...

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Jacquetta Hayes commented on an article | 17 August 2013

Declining Bee Numbers: Measures to Protect the Pollinators in Africa and Asia

Thanks capacity4dev.eu for publishing this. As someone who loves bees and our planet’s biodiversity, I think it’s worth adding here what you can do as an individual to ensure that your local bees have enough food to eat in preparation for this winter. Thanks to advice from my commune in Brussels (...
Declining Bee Numbers: Measures to Protect the Pollinators in Africa and Asia

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 12 August 2013

As the crucial role of bees as pollinators of the world’s food supply is increasingly becoming common knowledge, reports about the serious decline of honeybee populations in Europe and the USA have alarmed governments, the private sector and the general public. A similar decline in Africa and Asia...

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Environmental Champion Jane Goodall Calls for Individual Responsibility

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 9 July 2013

Jane Goodall is a British primatologist who perhaps is best known for her work with chimpanzees. She has spent many years studying their behaviour in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park. However, Ms Goodall is also a UN Messenger of Peace and according to her website she spends over 300 days a year on...

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Video: Tracing our timber

David SANMIGUEL posted Information | 5 June 2013

This short film provides valuable insight for the European timber industry into how FLEGT licenses will assist them in complying with the new European Union Timber Regulation. The first FLEGT licenses should be issued within the coming year, and are expected to deliver significant quantities of...

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Ecosystems Approach to Make Agriculture More Efficient, More Sustainable, and to Create More Intelligent Markets

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 5 June 2013

“The future of food security on the current trajectory is a road to nowhere, and to repeat the statistics that we need to grow 50-70% more food without answering the questions, on what land, with which water and with what kind of seed diversity, is a discussion that merits much greater attention,”...

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Waste Management in Mali: Training Small Scale Enterprises Improves Incomes and Environment

Christoforos KORAKAS updated the Article | 4 June 2013

By training informal workers in the waste management industry, the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation is helping to formalise waste management economy in Mali, and to generate incomes.

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Technical Advice and Training on offer from the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA)

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 3 June 2013

In just over five years of operation, the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) has grown to support more than forty programmes in Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. GCCA countries and ACP member states that may be looking for technical assistance to support the design and implementation...

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