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A multi-tiered agroforestry landscape.
How smallholder farmers are scaling up local ecosystem-based climate adaptation solutions
… the impacts of climate change, farmers in Yen Duong vary their land use according to elevation level and exposure. On the commune’s upper … for medicine and additional income. On the middle slopes, diverse and sustainable food production systems in climate-hardy rice paddies and …
Insight, 11 April 2024
View of the town of Pisaq in Peru, near the Potato Park Biocultural Heritage Territory
Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development
Project, 29 April 2019
Crop field with man watering the soil.
Reconciling food production and forest conservation: priorities for the UN Food Systems Summit
… for reigniting the world’s collective ambition to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.  The summit is organised into … – to boost nature-positive food production by optimising resource use in food system value chains. Underpinning this track is the urgency … policy collisions. 2. Raise agricultural productivity on existing land and build resilience in smallholder farming systems Increasing …
Insight, 20 September 2021
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'Land grabbing': is conservation part of the problem or the solution?
… Large-scale land acquisitions are increasing in pace and scale, in particular across … of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Weak governance and poor land use planning mean that commercial ‘land grabs’ often damage biodiversity … because secure customary and communal land tenure helps enable sustainable natural resource management by local communities. This …
Publication, 01 September 2013
Vegetable garden in the middle of a city street
Argentinian city Rosario wins award for urban sustainability
News, 08 July 2021
Women preparing tapioca
Tapioca tech in Togo – how producers are organising to transform lives and land
… and mangroves into agroforestry mosaics (now covering 85% of the land). Intense use is degrading soils. Erratic rainfall patterns are emerging as a … improve fertility, and the agroforestry system provides a basis for sustainable subsistence – at least if populations do not grow too much … tech in Togo – how producers are organising to transform lives and land …
Insight, 05 February 2020
Combine harvesters in a wheat field
Is adaptation the missing ingredient from the new UN biodiversity action plan?
… species populations. Since then, experts have been debating how much land or sea can be protected; how much degraded land can be restored; … and natural predators. More experimental approaches include the use of drones in response to declines in pollinators . Beyond food … international climate diplomacy but also in national and local level planning. As negotiations start on the post-2020 plan for biodiversity, …
Insight, 24 February 2020
A woman carries firewood in the rainforest
CoNGOs: NGOs collaborating for equitable and sustainable community livelihoods in Congo Basin forests
… whose economic aspirations might unleash much more equitable and sustainable growth, are not adequately supported. Community forestry has … help build the foundations for a more inclusive and equal forest and land use sector in the Congo Basin. The project was designed to contribute to … Land acquisitions and rights …
Project, 04 August 2016
A water tap in Rwanda. Measuring sustainability of investments in water and sanitation makes more sense than focusing on annual freshwater withdrawal and access to improved water and sanitation (Photo: A'Melody Lee/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Making World Bank aid sustainable
… reflect recent global agreements – Financing for Development, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement on climate … percentage of forest cover owned by and, separately, with commercial use rights held by, communities and indigenous peoples; and, volume of … to smallholder farmers or support the long-term resilience of the land they farm. Equally, given the lack of clarity over what climate …
Insight, 10 October 2016
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National Report on Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Development Policy and Planning Initiative Seychelles
… Education Strategic Action Plan and expected mid-term reviews on sustainable development strategy and land use and development plans. It proposes an NBSAP implementation unit and … Report on Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Development Policy and Planning Initiative Seychelles …
Publication, 01 March 2016