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A local farmer uses manual callipers to measure a tree. Measuring trees in person can be cheaper and just as accurate (Photo: Geoff Wells)
The Paris Agreement, SDGs and simple local monitoring
… REDD+ workshop , the Global Landscape Forum and the Development & Climate Days , where I had many fruitful discussions on monitoring … that effective approaches to monitoring are key to achieving climate change adaption, mitigation and sustainable development …
Insight, 07 January 2016
The rugged coastline of Jeju Island, South Korea, where the World Conservation Congress is being held.
IUCN World Conservation Congress begins
… and another on using traditional knowledge to help people adapt to climate change. Controversial location The Congress is being held on the island … Natural resource management …
Insight, 06 September 2012
Why markets matter
… – like a small tax on all international flights to raise money for climate change adaptation. Our research on investment principles , for example, … needs to be meaningfully fed into the company’s overall strategic management process. But there is still much to learn and we plan on …
Insight, 19 March 2012
Poultry farming is part of the sustainable agriculture system, along with crop production and fisheries, at Songhai Centre, in Porto Novo, Benin (Photo: Mark Surman via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
LDC experts to share ideas on building productive capacity
… integrate in the global economy, adapt and build resilience to climate change, foster inclusive and equitable growth, create decent employment …
Insight, 25 July 2014
Chinese supermarket. Photo: Simon Lim
Reflections on ten years of rating big brands for sustainability
… the brands under seven themes -- land, women, farmers, workers, climate, transparency and water -- and calculates each score according … measures: company awareness, knowledge, commitments, and supply chain management. Commenting that global supply chains “should provide … in measures of what companies aspire to, rather than of observable change, for example in the health of trading relations, or the welfare …
Insight, 27 February 2013
Delegates at the international symposium on agroecology (Photo: John Choptiany/FAO)
Agroecology offers FAO a 'new window' on agriculture
… sustainability, and important ecosystem services such as climate change mitigation. It differs from conventional farming because its … By contrast, concepts such as 'sustainable intensification' and 'climate-smart agriculture' are loosely defined by their objective of …
Insight, 02 October 2014
Delegates at the 4th Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in West Africa (Photo: GWI West Africa)
Les ministres de l'eau de la CEDEAO conviennent de construire des barrages plus équitables
News, 16 December 2015
Business models for sustainable development
… Now, as forests become flashpoints for conflict and a focus for climate concerns, community forestry could be coming into its own. … to assess environmental and social issues related to supply chain management in the oil and gas sector in Kazakhstan and the Russian … Up Additional resources Engineers against Poverty Channels for Change: Private Water and the Urban Poor Wilson & Zarsky Power to the …
Article, 10 May 2010