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… at the same time underpinning agricultural prosperity and reducing rural and urban poverty. To this are added the need to reduce greenhouse … gas emissions and to build resilience in agriculture and urban development > to climate change impacts. The paper gives particular …

… Rwanda has made significant progress in establishing and meeting key development goals. The small ‘land of a thousand hills’ aims to become a … measure of national development. Most people in Rwanda live in rural areas and work on the land in small-scale agriculture, although … a specialised fund to mobilise this finance called FONERWA , a Sustainable Financing mechanism for Environment and Climate Change …

… progress towards sustainability, with sustained efforts to achieve development goals, while reducing resource intensity and fossil fuel … expansion. Elsewhere, the population grows rapidly, particularly in rural areas, causing significant land use change and environmental … Agreement, bring to the future of our cities?   And looking to the Sustainable Development Goals, with their ambition for cities that are …

… the continent. But it’s a bizarrely mixed picture. Both poverty and development seem to be driving the boom. In times of economic growth and … head of cattle. Research also emphasises the role of bushmeat in rural diets — in Central Africa, it makes up as much as 80 per cent of … and would allow us to publicly recognise its importance as a form of sustainable livelihood for many of the world’s poor. The need for policy …

… ' Valuing variability: new perspectives on climate resilient drylands development ', published by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and launched in the Kenyan Parliament earlier this … approach Mixed crops and integrated crop-livestock systems allow rural households greater food security and sustainability than …