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...
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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: April 2013 Around three-quarters of the world's natural resources are already consumed in cities, and the proportion of the global population living in urban areas is set to rise to 70 per cent by 2050. At the...
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...
Amman Workshop 2011 Performance Management Unit - Ministry of Water and Irrigation PMU Director: Basem Telfah
Publication Date: June 2013 This paper calls for cooperation on Omo-Turkana transboundary water issues. A number of transboundary water agreements exist in Africa. However, many of these agreements are limited to larger basins...
Publication Date: 2009 Introduction to UNEP's Ecosystem Management Programme, which works to change the piecemeal (i.e., sector by sector) approach to environmental management and to move to an approach that integrates forests...
Publication Date: September 2012 This bulletin highlights the need for more reliable and consistent data about the state of Himalayan glaciers so that the contribution of glacial melt to the Himalayan river basins can be better...
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...
Release Date: October 2011 This report provides a review of selected transboundary river basins to ascertain the application of ecosystem-based approaches and to draw specific lessons for effective IWRM in international contexts.