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

Growing a better future - Summary

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 14 February 2013

oxfam_2011_growing_a_better_future_summary_en.pdf 572.55 KB

This report describes a new age of growing crises: food price spikes and oil price hikes, extreme weather events, financial meltdowns, and global contagion. Behind each of these, slow-burn crises there is climate change, growing inequality, chronic malnutrition and vulnerability, the erosion of...

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Rapport annuel du Rapporteur spécial des Nations unies sur le droit à l'alimentation, Olivier de Schutter

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 14 February 2013

o._de_schutter_conseil_des_dh_2011.pdf 192.68 KB

Ce rapport annuel du Rapporteur spécial des Nations unies sur le droit à l’alimentation, Olivier de Schutter a été soumis au Conseil des droits de l'homme des Nations unies. Il se base sur des contributions d'experts de toutes les régions du monde et sur un séminaire d'experts sur l'agroécologie,...

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Informe agroecologia de Schutter 2011 ESP

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 14 February 2013

o._de_schutter_consejo_de_los_dh_2011.pdf 285.66 KB

Ce rapport annuel du Rapporteur spécial des Nations unies sur le droit à l’alimentation, Olivier de Schutter a été soumis au Conseil des droits de l'homme des Nations unies. Il se base sur des contributions d'experts de toutes les régions du monde et sur un séminaire d'experts sur l'agroécologie,...

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Annual report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to Food, Olivier de Schutter

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 14 February 2013

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This annual report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter was submitted to the UN Human right Council. It is based on expert submissions from all the regions of the world, and an expert seminar that took place on 21-22 June 2010, with support from the King Baudoin...

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Climate change, food and nutrition security implications

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 14 February 2013

scn_news_28_climate_change_fsn_implications.pdf 5.42 MB

This issue of UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) News is on climate change and its impact on food and nutrition. There are some fifteen articles looking at different aspects of the subject, including impact on food security, effect on food crop quality, access to drinking water, food...

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Changing climates, changing lives. Adaptation strategies of pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Ethiopia and Mali

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 14 February 2013

acf_changing_climates.pdf 1.97 MB

This report looks at the implications of climate change for pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Ethiopia and Mali, based on field work carried out between May and October 2009. The report focuses on local perceptions of climate shocks, how communities respond and their limits. The report...

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Le Sahel face aux changements climatiques. Enjeux pour un développement durable

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 13 February 2013

bulletin_agrhymet_changement_climatique.pdf 3.26 MB

Le bulletin spécial du CILSS regroupe les contributions de plusieurs experts du Centre Régional Agrhymet sur les enjeux du changement climatique au Sahel. Plusieurs de ces contributions recoupent les questions de sécurité alimentaire en lien avec la production agricole régionale. La contribution d'...

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Climate-smart agriculture: Policies, practices and financing for food security, adaptation and mitigation

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 13 February 2013

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This paper has been published for the Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change, that was held in The Hague, Netherlands from 31 October to 5 November, 2010. This paper examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve the...

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Copenhague : Face à l'immobilisme politique, l'élan citoyen

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 13 February 2013

copenhague._elan_citoyen.pdf 468.74 KB

Ce document propose une analyse de la Conférence de Copenhague, en croisant les regards d'ONG françaises d'environnement et de solidarité internationale, qui sont mobilisées ensemble pour une meilleure prise en compte des enjeux de solidarité internationale dans les négociations sur le climat. Le...

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Copenhagen: Political immobility faced with citizen mobilisation

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 13 February 2013

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This article analyses the Copenhagen Conference, comparing the viewpoints of French environmental and international solidarity NGOs, who worked together for a stronger voice on the issues of international solidarity in climate negotiations. The first chapter reviews the main points of the...

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