Sustainable and Disaster-resilient Development in Vulnerable Countries Context : The degradation of ecosystems – such as forests, wetlands, coastal and marine systems, and drylands – is a major driver of disaster risk and a key...
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Publication Date: October 2013 This eighth annual report on the partnership between the United Nations and the European Union focuses on the critical field of food and nutrition security. It reflects how the United Nations and the...
Publication Date: 2013This article explores a number of projects in Africa which demonstrate the great potential of ecosystem-based approaches to harness multiple ecosystem services, ultimately helping to alleviate food crises. A...
Publication Date: June 2013 Food security globally is highly dependent on crop production, which has been subjected to increasing pressures emanating from both an increasing demand for food and a deteriorating health of the...
Publication Date: June 2013 This report states that supporting smallholder farmers to play a greater role in food production and natural resource stewardship is one of the quickest ways to lift over one billion people out of...
Publication Date: June 2013 About 24 percent of all calories currently produced for human consumption are lost or wasted. This paper examines the implications of this amount of loss and waste, profiles a number of approaches for...
Publication Date: February 2013 The Poverty Environment Iniative (PEI) is a global UN programme that helps countries to integrate poverty-environment linkages into national and sub-national development planning, from policymaking...
Publication Date: January 2013 This article summarizes the food security problems facing Africa, and suggests that Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) will be one of the most effective ways of meeting these challenges. The review...
Publication Date: January 2013 This report, compiled by Researchers from UNEP's World Conservation Monitoring Centre and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, shows that an increase in the amount of land being used for crops is...