Over the past few years, agribusiness, investment funds and government agencies have been acquiring long-term rights over large areas of land in Africa.
Author(s):
Cotula, Lorenzo
Organization(s):
IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
This is a practical guide for undertaking a molecular survey of deep-sea nematodes including protocols for collecting deep-sea nematodes, preservation and shipping of samples, slide mounting, image capture and the production of individual barcodes.
Reefs at Risk Revisited is part of a series that began in 1998 with the release of the first global analysis, Reefs at Risk: A Map-Based Indicator of Threats to the Worlds Coral Reefs.
This publication analyses the challenges, the potential and opportunities of African agribusiness in the current period of dramatic changes in global agro-industrial markets, and builds a case for agribusiness development as a path to Africas prosperity.
Author(s):
Yumkella, Kandeh K.
Kormawa, Patrick Momoh-Nuwah
Roepstorff, Torben M.
Hawkins, A. M.
Organization(s):
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
This publication is based on studies carried out from August 2010 to January 2011 by The Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (SIK) on request from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Author(s):
Gustavsson, Jenny
Cederberg, Christel
Sonesson, Ulf
Otterdijk, Robert van
Meybeck, Alexandre
Organization(s):
FAO
Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (SIK), SE
This report on Transport for Sustainable Development in the ECE region deals with issues and best practices in inland transport, i.e. in road, rail, inland waterway and intermodal transport.
Organization(s):
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
Can agricultural water management (AWM) technologies provide innovative solutions that can help to meet this challenge of feeding a growing, mostly disadvantaged, population by producing more food but with fewer resources?
Organization(s):
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Scientists used a network of interdisciplinary studies to investigate the ecological effects of marine managed areas (MMAs) dispersed widely across the tropics.
Author(s):
Kaufman, L.
Tschirky, John
Organization(s):
Conservation International, Science and Knowledge Division
For a large number of developing countries, agriculture remains the single most important sector. Climate change has the potential to damage irreversibly the natural resource base on which agriculture depends, with grave consequences for food security.
Author(s):
Hoffmann, Ulrich
Organization(s):
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
This report is a comprehensive overview of country-led efforts on climate change adaptation supported by the UNDP-GEF partnership with financing from the GEF-managed LDCF, SCCF and SPA funds.
Palms, belonging to the Arecaceae family, are among the most common plants in tropical countries and provide a vast assortment of products ranging from food to construction materials, fibre and fuel.
This handbook constitutes one of the battles being fought by civil society organisations to promote and protect the rights of communities living adjacent to mining areas against the operations of extractive industries, the state and other individuals who violate their Environmental, Economic, Soc
The report analyzes how the humanitarian community and the emerging volunteer and technical communities worked together in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and recommends ways to improve coordination between them in future emergencies.
Organization(s):
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
United Nations Foundation
Vodafone Foundation
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), US
United Nations, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
The concept of Integrated Food and Energy Systems (IFES) as such is not new. Simple integration of food and energy production at both small and large scales has shown many successful results.
From introduction: "WWF has a vision of a world that is powered by 100 per cent renewable energy sources by the middle of this century. Unless we make this transition, the world is most likely to avoid predicted escalating impacts of climate change.
This comprehensive resource manual explains why and how the reform of fisheries subsidies has become one of the most important international efforts to achieve global, environmental, economic and developmental policy coherence.
The Year Books overview of events and developments during 2010 shows how cutting edge science reveals new opportunities to mitigate climate change while improving air quality. Stimulated by technological innovation and green investments, renewable energy supply is growing rapidly.
El presente informe supone el final de un largo proceso de aportación del Comité Español de la UICN al proceso de mociones, iniciado en 2007 tras la profesionalización de la entidad y la fundación de su Oficina Técnica.
The present report means the end of a long process of contribution of the IUCN Spanish Committee to the motions process which started in 2007 after the professionalization of the entity and the foundation of its new Technical Department.
This study focuses on the area which stretches along sections of the border region between southwest Serbia and eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina in the central part of the Drina River Valley.
The Neretva Delta region is a predominantly rural area of approximately 20,000 hectares, shared by Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The region supports the livelihoods of approximately 60,000 people living in nine municipalities - seven on the Croatian side and two in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This study explores the possibilities and challenges of the existing regional collaboration between Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia and Una National Park in Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of six pilot sites in the project Environment for People in the Dinaric Arc.
This document is divided into three sections. The first examines learning on various aspects of natural resources governance. This is followed by a section focusing more specifically on project implementation, planning and management lessons.
Author(s):
Surkin, Jordi
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN, Social Policy Group
United Kingdom, Department for International Development (DFID)
A knowledge management study was undertaken in the IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa Region by Rod Abson, Science and Knowledge Management Officer in the Science and Knowledge Management Unit of IUCN from the 18th of June to 1st of July 2011.
This report describes and reports on IUCN's participation in the 22nd World Scouts Jamboree, which took place in Rinkady, Sweden, 25 July-8 August 2011.
Author(s):
Abson, Rodney
Organization(s):
IUCN, Science and Knowledge Management Unit
IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
Climate change and the over exploitation of water resources is challenging the sustainability of the Pangani River Basin to deliver water services. Competition for diminishing water resources has led to tensions between the various stakeholders within the basin.
Inappropriate water management practices in the Komadugu Yobe Basin, upstream of Lake Chad in northern Nigeria, changed the seasonal river flow and caused widespread environmental degradation.
Regional and international delegates gathered for a conference focusing on forests, watershed management, and integrated water resource management on 23-24 May in Da Lat, Viet Nam.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Institute of Tropical Biology, Center for Biodiversity and Development, VN
