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The Africa Adaptation Knowledge Network (AAKNet) is pleased to present the second Issue of the Africa Adaptation Newsletter. This newsletter offers a comprehensive overview of the latest adaptation practices, policy issues, amongst many in Africa and beyond.
We will be...
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the session "Andean communities in the face of global change" (see attachment) which Wageningen University and Research Centre propose together with Giuseppe Feola at the Resilience 2014 Conference taking place 4-8...
Eucalyptus is becoming a dominant tree in the highlands of Ethiopia. The flowering trees that originated in Australia are surprisingly well suited to the region, says a Cornell graduate student. They grow quickly and do not require fertile soil. In Ethiopia, most eucalyptus species do...
Voluntary commitments and partnerships for sustainable development are multi-stakeholder initiatives voluntarily undertaken by Governments, intergovernmental organizations, major groups and others that aim to contribute to the implementation of intergovernmentally agreed sustainable...
The Mountain Partnership are pleased to share with you a new tool for calculating forest biomass and forest carbon that has been developed by one of their members, the Food and Agriculture...
This briefing note, published by the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and Forest Peoples Programme, is intended to develop discussion and...
Christian Devenish participated in the II Meeting of Environmental Researchers in the city of Arequipa, Peru (3 - 5 July 2013), organized by the Environmental...
An International Conference on “Green India: Strategic knowledge for combating climate change: Prospects & challenges” (GISKCCC2013) will be held at the Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India during December 5-7th , 2013, to...
The International Hydrological Programme (IHP) is taking the lead to implement UNESCO’s contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation through an intersectoral project entitled "Climate Change Impacts in Major Mountainous Regions of the World: Multidisciplinary Network...
A Key Contact Workshop (KCW) is a 1-day event facilitating and fostering the dialogue between scientists with various backgrounds. The three work tools, namely written research summaries, snapshot presentations, and small working groups, stimulate interdisciplinary thinking and allow...