Climate change and the right to food: a comprehensive study
Climate change and the policies instituted to combat it are affecting the realization of the right to food in myriad, often unnoticed ways.
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Review of evidence on drylands pastoral systems and climate change
In light of global concerns over the impacts of climate change and climate variability, this document provides an overview of opportunities for adaptation and mitigation in dryland pastoral and agropastoral systems. It makes a case for a concerted global effort to promote mitigation practices that also have benefits for adaptation and livelihoods of pastoralists and agropastoralists in drylands.
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Action and ambition for a global deal in Copenhagen
This paper sets out an assessment of the latest national positions regarding emission reduction targets and actions going into the forthcoming negotiations in Copenhagen. These targets and intentions are quantified and translated into global emissions to give an understanding of how close we are to a possible agreement consistent with keeping temperature increase below 2
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Review of water governance in the Narmada river basin
Water governance in the Narmada river basin has been in the eye of a controversial storm from the time of independence.
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Commercial aquaculture and economic growth, poverty alleviation and food security
Within the framework of its continued efforts to reduce food insecurity and alleviate poverty, the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department encourages commercial or business-oriented aquaculture as a means of increasing food availability and accessibility, employment and income, and improving national economies, especially in developing countries.
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Mountains as early indicators of climate change
The overall objective of the conference was to discuss the role of mountains as early indicators of climate change and the impact of global warming on mountain ecosystems. Specially, the actual state and the open gaps of scientific research were presented on several early indicators and in different mountain regions around the world.
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The global food challenge: towards a human rights approach to trade and investment policies
The number of undernourished people in the world has set a scandalous new record of one billion in 2009, in spite of a record grain harvest in 2008. This book argues that the
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Water productivity improvements in Indian agriculture: potentials, constraints and prospects
In 2005, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) started a three-year research study on
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Green benches: what can the Peoples Republic of China learn from environment courts of other countries?
This paper examines the effectiveness of environment courts in the PRC and elsewhere, so that the lessons learned can be applied in the PRC and in other developing countries. It also recommends ways to promote environmental justice in the PRC, given that the 11 environment courts are no longer enough to handle the rapidly increasing caseload throughout the country.
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Indias forests and the judiciary: the Godavarman story
A comprehensive analysis of the Godavarman case instituted to address timber felling in the Nilgiri range of Tamil Nadu. Each and every order and its implications at state and national level has been analysed, to bring out not only the complexity of forest conservation in the country but also highlight various strategies adopted by Courts.
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World economic situation and prospects 2010: global outlook
In the outlook, global economic recovery is expected to remain sluggish, unemployment rates will stay high and inflation will remain low. Developing countries, especially those in Asia, are expected to show the strongest recovery in 2010. Nonetheless, growth is expected to remain well below potential and the pre-crisis levels of performance in the developing world.
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Karnataka industrial policy 2009-14
Karnataka is one amongst the industrially developed States in the Country. The State has all potential to stand out on the fore front and has been focusing on development of industries, trade and service sectors. The State Government understands that the challenges poised due to global economic recession have to be addressed to promote economic growth of the State.
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Strengthening capacities for planning of sanitation and wastewater use: experiences from two cities in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
This report starts with a description of the methodology followed in the Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation (WASPA) in Asia Project, including the overall project approach and some key concepts applied.
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Climate disaster resilience: focus on coastal urban cities in Asia
Recognizing the ever-increasing vulnerability of coastal urban cities in Asia due to climate change impacts and variability and also due to fast-growing urban development, this study focusing on climate disaster resilience is conducted in order to measure the existing level of climate disaster resilience of the targeted areas using a Climate Disaster Resilience Index.
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Organic agriculture and carbon sequestration
This document discusses the opportunities and constrains of carbon accounting for organic agriculture management in developed and developing countries. The aim of this document is to describe the potential of organic agriculture to sequester carbon and to meet the requirements of carbon accounting systems, including factors such as carbon permanence, leakage and additionality.
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Estimating the value of improved wastewater treatment: the case of river Ganga, India
This paper employs a stated preference environmental valuation method, namely the choice experiment method, to estimate local public
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Poverty and climate change: reducing the vulnerability of the poor through adaptation
Climate change is a serious risk to poverty reduction and threatens to undo decades of development efforts. As the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development states,
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Innovations in multi-level governance for energy efficiency
Recent IEA analysis highlights member countries
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The little climate finance book: a guide to financing options for forests and climate change
The Little Climate Finance Book is a companion piece to the Global Canopy Programme