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. It examines the strategies, approaches and impacts to date of UNDPs adaptation programme and presents the preliminary achievements and lessons learned from projects in the UNDP-GEF portfolio (GEF-3 and GEF-4, 2006-2010).
This report documents how the World Bank Group has sought to be an active partner in implementing the "Rio imperatives." It is divided into three parts. Part 1 explores progress in activities specifically targeted toward improving the environment. This includes an analysis of the Bank's growing loan portfolio of environmental projects ... and of the Bank's roles as an implementing agency of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and of the Montreal Protocol.
The compendium shows how the scope of research has evolved at IFPRI, as well as in the wider development community. It covers a host of topics that bear on food and nutrition security, including development strategies, markets and trade, technologies for agricultural production, natural resource management, conflicts and natural disasters, subsidies and safety nets, gender roles, and health. Research on each topic is set into context to show how thinking has progressed over time.
Madagascar, aidé par la communauté internationale, investit depuis dix ans dans la création d'un réseau de 1,5 million d'hectares d'aires protégées.