Climate change, disaster risk reduction & desertification

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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Adaptation - Climate Change - Clean energy technology - Climate finance - Climate smart agriculture - Desertification/land degradation - Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) - Drought - Flood prevention/control - Mitigation

GCCA Intra-ACP Programme Invites Requests for Technical Assistance from ACP Member States: Video from Dr Pendo Maro

Jacquetta Hayes posted Information | 19 April 2013

Dear Members of the GCCA Community, In this short video, Dr Pendo Maro of the Intra-ACP component of the GCCA, invites members of the ACP to apply for technical assistance to help design and implement climate change strategies, policies and interventions. Transcripts in English and French follow...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
April Update: video message from Mark Futter, Team Leader of the GCCA Global Support Facility

Jacquetta Hayes posted Information | 19 April 2013

Dear Members of the GCCA Community, Mark Futter brings you up-to-date with GCCA news - please watch this 2 minute video, in English with French subtitles. Transcripts follow below, for those of you with slow internet connections. We welcome your feedback and suggestions, please use the comment box...

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Group: GCCA+ Community
Food price volatility: Implications for ACP countries

Felix Nkwetta Ajong posted Information | 18 April 2013

On the 13 th of November 2011, CTA organised a Briefing on ‘Food price volatility: Implications for ACP countries’ in cooperation with International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) , the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) , the European Commission (DG DEVCO) , the European...

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Group: Agriculture & Rural Development
Brussels Development Briefing Highilghts: Food Price Volatility

Felix Nkwetta Ajong uploaded a new Document | 18 April 2013

br-25-food-price-volatility_eng.pdf 2.83 MB

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Group: Agriculture & Rural Development
Reader: Food Price Volatility

Felix Nkwetta Ajong uploaded a new Document | 18 April 2013

br-25-reader-br-25-food-price-volatility-eng.pdf 3.33 MB

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Group: Agriculture & Rural Development
Reader: The Water we Eat

Felix Nkwetta Ajong uploaded a new Document | 17 April 2013

br22_reader_the-water-we-eat.pdf 1.42 MB

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Group: Public Group on Water and Sanitation
GCCA Partners Take Stock of Climate Change Actions in Developing Countries

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 16 April 2013

The European Union’s Global Climate Change Alliance, or GCCA, recently held it’s first Global Learning Event to identify achievements and lessons learned so far, and to consolidate thinking towards the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Doha.

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New EC Briefing for Non-Experts on Climate Change: It’s a Mad, Mad World

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

When it comes to climate change, it’s a mad, mad world. That’s the message from a new EC-commissioned e-booklet, which uses the abbreviation “MAD” to outline a strategic framework for combating global warning: Mitigation, Adaptation, Development.

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Making Farmers Part of the Climate Change Solution

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

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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Ancient Practices with Modern Value

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

The roaming farming practices of nomadic pastoralists may appear to have altered little in hundreds of years, but in today’s unpredictable age of climate change these ancient practices may hold the key to flexible farming in hostile environments and donors should do more to support them, say...

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