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A framework for identifying country-specific MRV improvement needs in the livestock sector: Lessons from Kenya, Ethiopia and Nigeria

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Dezembro, 2019

The working paper presents a framework for assessing country-specific needs, opportunities and priorities for improving measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of livestock greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and emission reductions. The framework consists of 13 guiding questions that are implemented in an eight-step assessment. The steps are:
Phase 1: Clarify the context

Dynamics of Rural Economy: A Socio-Economic Understanding of Oil Palm Expansion and Landscape Changes in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Dezembro, 2019
Indonesia

The fast-growing palm oil economy has stimulated a significant expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia. The uncontrolled development of large oil palm plantations has raised complex socio-ecological issues, including changes of ecological landscapes, organization of production, and farming household livelihood systems.

Diversity, use and production of farmers’ varieties of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L., Fabaceae) in southwestern and northeastern Ethiopia

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Dezembro, 2019
Ethiopia

Legumes are a critical component of many agricultural systems and a major contributor to global food systems. Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most widely grown legume crop in Ethiopia. It is an important source of food, income, and soil fertility management in southwestern (SW) and northeastern (NE) Ethiopia, and used as medicine, fodder, and honeybee forage in the NE.

Including access and benefit sharing in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

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Dezembro, 2019

This paper was prepared for consideration by the 2nd meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, Rome, Italy, February 2020. It includes proposals for how access and benefit-sharing rules, practices and impacts could be integrated in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (Post 2020 Framework).

A proposal of community-based firefighting in peat hydrological unit of Kahayan – Sebangau River: methods and approaches

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Dezembro, 2019
Global

In 2019, Indonesia has experienced a very recent El Nino event, which generates an impact on the severity of forest and peatland fires both in Kalimantan and Sumatra. Some provinces such as Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, Riau, South Sumatra, and Jambi have been covered in a thick and poisonous haze for months.

Assessing the Adaptive Capacity of Households to Climate Change in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia

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Dezembro, 2019
Ethiopia

This paper explores the different components of the adaptive capacity of households in the Central Rift Valley (CRV) of Ethiopia and quantifies their relative contributions. The data were derived from a survey of 413 households randomly selected from four Kebeles (the smallest government administrative units) in the CRV.

Improved remote sensing methods to detect northern wild rice (Zizania palustris L.)

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Dezembro, 2019
Global

Declining populations of Zizania palustris L. (northern wildrice, or wildrice) during
the last century drives the demand for new and innovative techniques to support monitoring of
this culturally and ecologically significant crop wild relative. We trained three wildrice detection
models in R and Google Earth Engine using data from annual aquatic vegetation surveys in

The diffusion of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia: stakeholder analysis using Net-Map

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Dezembro, 2019
Ethiopia

Small-scale irrigation (SSI) provides great benefits to farmers in terms of increased yields and profits, better food and nutrition security and greater resilience to climate shocks. Ethiopia has high potential for expanding SSI and has invested considerably in this area in recent years. Despite these investments, several challenges to further expansion of irrigation technologies remain.