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National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) are the key instrument for translating the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) into national action. The role of NBSAPs was reinforced in 2010 by the adoption of the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets at the Tenth Meeting of...
For millennia, humankind has struggled to develop water resources for domestic water supplies, to provide irrigation, and to limit flood losses. This struggle to leverage water-related opportunities and manage water-related risks, while addressing social and environmental demands,...
This guide is intended to support the preparation of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) by Least Developed Countries (LDCs) for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It was initiated at the request of several LDCs, who asked for...
La disponibilidad de recursos hídricos está continuamente distorsionada por fenómenos climáticos como el Niño y la Niña en Bolivia, pero también por la inadecuada gestión del recurso. Estos factores contribuyen con sequías, inundaciones, y distribución heterogénea a la sociedad. La...
Since its creation, nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) have increasingly been studied, formulated and implemented, in expectation to realizing the potential to mitigate and reduce GHG emissions, as well as to advancing low carbon and sustainable development in...
The publication highlights the experience and lessons learned from a Community Digital Storytelling activity by CARE International through its Integrated Community-based Adaptation in the Mekong (ICAM) Project, funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. It...
This paper explores the impact of climate risk on the adoption of risk decreasing practices and other input choices and evaluates their impact on subjective and objective measures of household welfare (namely net crop income and a food insecurity indicator). The analysis is conducted primarily using a novel data set that combines data from the largescale and representative Ethiopia Socioeconomic...
Conferences and committees the world over are recognizing the importance of youth representation. However, youth participation is still largely limited, particularly in the international arena, to a ‘demand to be heard’. Youth involvement can also often be tokenistic – where young...
Scopo del presente rapporto è fornire una valutazione del grado di raggiungimento dei risultati attesi e delle modalità di intervento. Un gruppo di esperti esterni ha effettuato una valutazione indipendente dei progetti realizzati nel periodo 2000-2012. Si tratta del terzo rapporto...
From a global perspective, mountain farming is family farming. Mountain areas, with their dispersed patches of useable land at different altitudes with different climates and with their often highly fragmented landscapes and narrow limits for mechanization, are most efficiently and...
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