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Ecosystems for water and food security

Gervase Poulden uploaded a new Document | 7 March 2011

depi-ecosystems-food-secur.pdf 7.33 MB

Publication Date: 2011 Against the current challenges to enhance food security worldwide, this report aims at illustrating the importance of healthy ecosystems for the provisioning of key services that contribute to food security. Such ecosystem services are water provisioning and food production...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Green Economy report

James Morris uploaded a new Document | 21 February 2011

green_economy_report.pdf 21.58 MB

Release Date: 21 February 2011 UNEP's Green Economy report is a ground-breaking report. It demonstrates that the greening of economies is not generally a drag on growth but rather a new engine of growth; that it is a net generator of decent jobs, and that it is also a vital strategy for the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Proposed Irrigation Distribution System and Management Improvement Project

Anca Robu uploaded a new Document | 21 February 2011

Proposed_Irrigation_Distribution_System_and_Management_Improvement_Project-AZERBAIJAN.doc 37 KB

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Group: Public Group on Water and Sanitation
International Conference on Global Land Grabbing

Thorben Kruse created a new event | 14 February 2011

06 Apr

From 6 April 2011
in Brighton (United Kingdom)

The focus of the conference will be on the politics of global land grabbing and agrarian change. Organised by the Land Deals Politics Initiative ( LDPI) in collaboration with the Journal of Peasant Studies [1]and hosted by the Future Agricultures Consortium [2]at the Institute of Development...

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Group: EU Working Group on Land Issues
Organic Pineapples and Edible Insects: All Part of a Three-way South-South Initiative

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 11 February 2011

Benin, Bhutan and Costa Rica have come together under a programme of South-South cooperation, sharing skills and knowledge on agriculture, environmental issues and much more, using funds from the Netherlands.

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Donor Support to the Private Sector Can Work, says Kenyan Entrepreneur

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 17 December 2010

A thriving private sector is essential to long-term sustainable development, but entrepreneurs in developing countries face numerous obstacles, not least accessing the finances to help them realise their business dreams. One successful entrepreneur from Kenya, Africa, states her case.

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Martin Mbonu commented on an article | 22 November 2010

Building Ownership to Deliver Sustainable Water Aid

A more important achievement of EU water, sanitation and hygiene intervention in the rural communities in Nigeria, including Inyima community, is the total elimination of indiscriminate defecation in open fields and bushes in many of these villages. This has been achieved through Community-led...
Building Ownership to Deliver Sustainable Water Aid

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 9 November 2010

When the children of Inyima in southeast Nigeria began to fall sick and die, villagers were horrified to learn that their own poor hygiene practices had contaminated the community’s drinking water, causing a deadly diarrhoea outbreak.

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Making Farmers Part of the Climate Change Solution

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 11 September 2010

To date, the agricultural sector, as a net green house gas producer, has largely been seen as part of the climate change problem. But Dr Alex De Pinto of the International Food Policy Research Institute wants to see farmers become part of the climate change solution. Whether it’s through livestock...

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Risisng global interest in farmland - can it yield sustainable and equitable benefits

Thorben Kruse posted Information | 9 September 2010

Following the official launch in Washington on 8 Sep, the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development together with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) will host an online discussion for four weeks at donorplatform.org/eDiscussion. You are invited to comment on the...

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Group: EU Working Group on Land Issues

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