The Sahel region is largely dependent on agriculture as the main economic activity, with about 80-90% of the population actively engaged in agriculture. Land degradation is however a major environmental issue affecting the region...
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Release Date: October 2012 The report addresses an important aspect of the food security discourse: the ecological foundation of food security. The report argues that while factors such as availability, access, utilization and...
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity is an international treaty governing the movements of living modified organisms (LMOs) resulting from modern biotechnology from one country to another...
Designing warehouse receipt legislation: Regulatory options and recent trends. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome, 2015. Warehouse receipt systems allow agricultural producers to access credit by...
Publication Date: 2012 Report by the Ministry of Land and Environment Protection of North Korea on the country's environment and cllimate change outlook. Technical assistance for the report was provided by UNEP.
Desertification, along with climate change and the loss of biodiversity, were identified as the greatest challenges to sustainable development during the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. Established in 1994, UNCCD is the sole legally...
The edited volume “Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade and Employment” is the outcome of a project financed under the EC Thematic Programme Investing in People “Assessing and Addressing the Effects of Trade and Employment”...
Release Date: 28 July 2011 The 4th issue of the UNEP Policy Series on Ecosystem Management focuses on the synergy and trade-offs in ensuring food and ecological security.
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...
Release Date: 21 February 2011 UNEP's Green Economy report is a ground-breaking report. It demonstrates that the greening of economies is not generally a drag on growth but rather a new engine of growth; that it is a net generator...