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  • The Unjust Climate: Measuring the Impacts of Climate Change on Rural Poor, Women and Youth

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    In particular, there is little comparative, multi-country and multi-region evidence to understand how exposure to weather shocks and climate change affects the drivers of rural transformation and adaptive actions across different segments of rural societies and in different agro-ecological contexts. This evidence is essential because, while climate risk and adaptive actions are context specific ... Read more

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  • The State of the World’s Forests 2020: Forests, Biodiversity and People

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    As the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011–2020 comes to a close and countries prepare to adopt a post-2020 global biodiversity framework, this edition of The State of the World's Forests (SOFO) examines the contributions of forests, and of the people who use and manage them, to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.Forests cover just over 30 percent of the global land area, ... Read more

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  • Agriculture and Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities at the Global and Local Level - Collaboration on Climate-Smart Agriculture

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The IMELS has fostered, within this project, knowledge sharing on CSA, the creation and the implementation of GACSA, and the development of initiatives to support developing countries in their international commitments for climate change and sustainable development in the field of agriculture and food security. The various activities and products described in this publication, show the successes ... Read more

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  • A Practical Guide on Safe Hookah Diving: Diving for Sea Cucumbers and Other Marine Organisms

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Through simple language and numerous illustrations, the guide describes the basic rules of diving, the potential risks associated with this activity and what to do to minimize them, as well as other useful tips to improve hookah diving operations. The guide, however, is not intended as a comprehensive manual for commercial divers. Rather, it is strongly recommended that fishers who want to engage ... Read more

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  • Understanding Diseases and Control in Seaweed Farming in Zanzibar

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    In view of all production and productivity problems the seaweed aquaculture industry has been facing as well as the impact of the seaweed die-off on the Island economy with sharp decline of income and revenues for thousands of farmers and traders and, recognizing the compounded problems that about 20,000 seaweed farmers' livelihood are based on a single aquaculture system affecting mostly women ... Read more

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  • A Multi-Billion-Dollar Opportunity – Repurposing Agricultural Support to Transform Food Systems

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Public support mechanisms for agriculture in many cases hinder the transformation towards healthier, more sustainable, equitable, and efficient food systems, thus actively steering us away from meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and targets of the Paris Agreement.This report sets out the compelling case for repurposing harmful agricultural producer support to reverse this situation, by ... Read more

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  • Technical Guide for the Adaptation, Biodiversity and Carbon Mapping Tool: ABC-Map

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    ABC-Map helps to develop synergies and trade-offs between climate, biodiversity and land restoration actions.The Adaptation section helps to understand exposure to climate change risks and to assess climate change over time in a given area. It includes a climate and geophysical profile with, for example, information on temperature and precipitation trends over the past 40 years.The Biodiversity ... Read more

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  • Rural Poverty Analysis: From Measuring Poverty to Profiling and Targeting the Poor in Rural Areas

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Reducing rural poverty is a key objective of FAO. To achieve this goal, the Organization must reach the poor and the extremely poor in rural areas, analysing their needs and aspirations and providing effective guidance for the design of policies and investments that foster inclusive and sustainable development.This guide was developed to strengthen the Organization's work on rural poverty ... Read more

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  • Focus on Governance for More Effective Policy and Technical Support: Governance and Policy Support Framework Paper

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    There are eight years left to reach the SDGs. Agrifood systems transformation is urgently needed if we are to achieve sustainability, resilience and food security and nutrition in a post-COVID world.This desired transformation can only be achieved by strengthening and capitalizing on the knowledge, experience, skills, and capabilities for collective action of a broad range of public and private ... Read more

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  • Plant Protection Outlook in the Asia-Pacific Region: Including an in-Depth View of the Invasive Fall Armyworm

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    One of the world's greatest challenges is to feed a growing human population in an effective, sustainable, and environmentally conscious manner. In the Asia-Pacific, agri-food production is greatly impeded by a speciose complex of transboundary pests and pathogens (TPP). Integrated pest management (IPM), a sequential decision-making process founded upon agroecological principles and aimed at ... Read more

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  • Framework for Environmental and Social Management

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The Framework for Environmental and Social Management (FESM) establishes environmental and social performance requirements for FAO programming. The FESM includes key elements of a human rights-based approach with the goal to ensure that people and the environment are protected from any potential adverse impacts of FAO programmes and projects. It is also intended to ensure that all stakeholders ... Read more

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  • Practical Guide for the Application of the Genebank Standards for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Conservation in Field Genebanks

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    FAO has developed the "Practical guide for the application of the Genebank Standards for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Conservation in field genebanks" to be used as a companion volume to the Genebank Standards for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. The action steps of the genebank workflow are presented in a sequential manner and provide guidance on the complex ... Read more

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