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Enhancing women’s rights and lives through gender-equitable restoration in Burkina Faso

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Diciembre, 2019
Burkina Faso

Gender differences and gender inequalities in rights, status and responsibilities significantly shape daily rural life and life cycles in rural West Africa (Levasseur 2003), where women face significant constraints in participating in activities aimed at restoring forests and farmland.

Generating evidence on gender sensitive Climate-Smart Agriculture to inform policy in Central America: Final technical project report

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Diciembre, 2019
Global

The overall objective of this project was to support the scaling up of gender sensitive Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) as a mechanism to increase resilience and improve livelihoods of vulnerable households in the face of climate-related impacts.

Examining the sustainability and development challenge in agricultural-forest frontiers of the Amazon Basin through the eyes of locals

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Diciembre, 2019

The Amazon basin is the world’s largest rainforest and the most biologically diverse place on Earth. Despite the critical importance of this region, Amazon forests continue inexorably to be degraded and deforested for various reasons, mainly a consequence of agricultural expansion.

Evaluation of performance of small ruminants in smallholder Climate-Smart Villages of Lower Nyando, Kenya

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Diciembre, 2019
Kenya

The productivity of small ruminants in developing countries remains low although the animals play an integral role in the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Current information on their productive performance and contribution to the household incomes of smallholder farmers in Eastern Africa is limited.

Situational analysis study of the agriculture sector in Uganda

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Diciembre, 2019
Uganda

Uganda submitted its first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in 2015 to the UNFCCC through which it committed to reduce approximately 22% of national GHG emissions in 2030 compared to business-as-usual of 49 million MtCO2eq. The country is currently in the process of updating its NDC in accordance with decision 1/CP.21 of the UNFCCC.

Foundations for common approaches to measure global adaptation actions in the agriculture sector: Highlights from an analysis of existing climate adaptation frameworks

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Diciembre, 2019
Global

"Climate adaptation has been on the back seat of the international policy agenda for many years; the Paris Agreement and relating Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) provide new momentum to frame adaptation as a global responsibility and to call for collective measurement approaches.

Assessment of land degradation in semi-arid Tanzania: Using remote sensing to inform the Sustainable Development Goal 15.3

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Diciembre, 2019
Global

Monitoring land degradation (LD) to inform the sustainable development goal (SDG) 15.3.1 (\proportion of land that is degraded over total land area") is key to ensure a more sustainable future. At the moment, there are only default medium-resolution datasets available to assess LD in Tanzania. They do not reflect local characteristics and cannot help to target exposed areas spatially.

Adapting Green Innovation Centres to climate change: analysis of value chain adaptation potential. Rice value chain in Mekong River Delta, Vietnam

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Diciembre, 2019
Global

The present report aims to provide a climate and vulnerability analysis of the Green Innovation Centres (GIC) target commodity value chains. Herein we identify climate change- related vulnerabilities, hazards, and opportunities for adaptation to the same.

Indicators for gender equality and the empowerment of women: from concept to practice

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Diciembre, 2019
Global

As part of the project “Developing Gender
Indicators in Agriculture,” we conducted a literature
review in order to understand how research and
agricultural development projects in Latin America
measure women’s empowerment and gender
inequalities. The research allowed us to conduct
a close examination of the theoretical concepts

Ecosystems-based adaptation in the forest and agriculture interface: Operationalizing action in Mondulkiri and Koh Kong

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Diciembre, 2019
Philippines

A range of interventions within the scope of ecosystems-based adaptation (EbA) are being deployed to address the continuing degradation of forest cover, within protected areas and biodiversity conservation corridors in Cambodia. Ecosystem adaptation has involved the use of ecosystem services as part of the overall adaptation strategy.

Toolkit for Developing Skills and Capacity in Applying Foresight to Climate Resilient Agricultural Development in the SADC Region. Module 2: Understanding Trends and Multi-sectoral and Systems Linkages

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Diciembre, 2019
Netherlands

The SADC Futures project has developed a range of foresight training materials. The SADC Futures Foresight Training Toolkit forms part of this knowledge series and presents content that was given during the SADC Futures webinar series, a six-part virtual webinar series and facilitated training.