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  1. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    April, 2013
    Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen, Northern Africa, Western Asia

    The goal of WLI is to improve the livelihoods of rural
    households and communities in areas where water
    scarcity, land degradation, water quality deterioration,
    food security and health problems are prevalent in eight
    participating countries including Egypt, Iraq, Jordan,
    Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen. The main
    objective is to develop and pilot test integrated water and
    land management strategies.

  2. Library Resource
    National Policies
    January, 2013
    Morocco

    Dans le contexte de mettre en œuvre ses engagements dans le cadre de la Convention des Nations Unies sur la Lutte contre la Désertification, le Maroc s’est dote d’un Programme d’Action National de Lutte Contre la Désertification (PANLCD).

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    Tunisia, Syrian Arab Republic, Africa, Northern Africa, Western Asia

    This study aimed to evaluate the impact of climate change on the geographical distribution of selected native species from two areas from West Asia and North Africa. Three species representing two genera were selected for assessment of their vulnerability to climate change. The first species was Salsola vermiculata L. which is common to both study areas. The second genus was represented by two species, Haloxylon salicornicum (Moq.) Bunge from the Syrian rangelands and H. schmittianum Pomel from southern Tunisia.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    November, 2013
    Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Cape Verde, Comoros, Bahamas, Barbados, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Eswatini, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Western Africa, Middle Africa

    To ensure a food-secure future, farming must become climate resilient. Around the world, governments and communities are adopting innovations that are improving the lives of millions while reducing agriculture’s climate footprint. These successful examples show the many ways climate-smart agriculture can take shape, and should serve as inspiration for future policies and investments.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    North Macedonia, United States of America, Germany, China, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Italy, Finland, Colombia, Kenya, Jordan, Morocco, Barbados, Mexico, Moldova, Armenia, Brazil, Montenegro, Norway

    This review of national greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation planning in the agriculture sector provides national policy makers and others in the agriculture sector with an overview of national mitigation planning processes to aid them in identifying the relevance of these processes for promoting agricultural development. It also gives policy makers and advisors involved in low-emission development planning processes an overview of mitigation planning in the agriculture sector and highlights the relevance of agriculture to national mitigation plans and actions.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    Egypt, North Macedonia, Brazil, United States of America, Rwanda, Germany, China, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Guyana, Republic of Korea, Finland, Ethiopia, Kenya, Costa Rica, Philippines, South Africa, Colombia, Uruguay, Cambodia, Mexico, Norway, Mongolia

    This guide describes two of the main approaches to greenhouse gas mitigation planning in developing countries: Low-Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs). It explains the possible relationships between them and their status within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). National mitigation planning processes have policy, technical and institutional dimensions that need to be addressed in an integrated and iterative manner. For each of these dimensions four key elements are outlined.

  7. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Sudan

    The report assesses the main factors
    which constrain the sustainable development of the Gezira
    Scheme (GS), to develop medium, to long term plans,
    including short-term actions, to address those constrains.
    The GS, is described as a large and complex enterprise,
    because although it is one the world's largest
    irrigation systems, it has become one of the least
    efficient, irrespective of the fact that it uses thirty five

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    Africa, Northern Africa, Western Asia

    In the Middle East and North Africa
    Region, forest resources are generally limited, as is their
    contribution to GDP, and it is for this reason their
    importance is often overlooked. However, forestry's
    contribution to natural resource and environmental
    management, is significant, which should not be
    underestimated. The report, implemented as an input to the
    development of a Bank Forestry Strategy in guiding its work

  9. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Egypt

    The report proposes key elements for an
    agricultural export-oriented strategy in Egypt, that would
    build on the achievements of the agricultural strategy
    during the 1990s. Substantial improvements in the
    country's macroeconomic environment, following policy
    reforms - though necessary - have not been sufficient to
    improve agricultural export performance. Overall, while
    Egyptian agricultural production increased during the 90s,

  10. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Sudan

    This Country Economic Memorandum is the
    first economic report in a decade. It gives priority to
    updating knowledge about the evolution of social and
    economic developments during the 1990s. It reviewareas of
    progress in macroeconomic reforms and the lack of success in
    governance and institutional reforms. Substantial reforms
    were undertaken in this period , but the civil war continued
    to have a serious negative impact on Sudan's people and

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