Climate risk country profile: Rwanda
This report discusses Rwanda's country risk profile. Despite the country’s overall positive growth and development over the past 25 years, Rwanda is still highly vulnerable to impacts from climate change
This report discusses Rwanda's country risk profile. Despite the country’s overall positive growth and development over the past 25 years, Rwanda is still highly vulnerable to impacts from climate change
India’s rural employment guarantee is a milestone in social policy and employment creation. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was mandated in 2005 to implement an ambitious, demand-driven
The majority of the world's rich donor nations failed to meet their development aid pledges in 2013 and only one third of the money went to the poorest countries, a report said on Monday. Aid by members
The aim of this policy brief is to spread the word about forest and farm producer organizations and their increasing role in helping smallholders improve their economic and social well-being while managing
Global food insecurity remains a serious problem. In 2010, more than 900 million people are still hungry, and progress toward reaching the first Millennium Development Goal of halving the world
Bangalore, DH News Service: The government allowed NREGS works in lands owned by farmers of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe last year. From this year onwards big farmers can avail of the benefit of this project. The State government has decided to allow the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) works in lands of big farmers as well.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide US$ 47.3 million loan to Bangladesh to reduce poverty and hunger of the people living on chars (newly accreted coastal lands).
The authors analysed livelihood conditions in 10 river basins over three continents to identify generalizable links between water, agriculture and poverty. There were significant variations in hydrological
<p>During the period of Nepal’s ninth Five-Year Plan (1997–2002), agricultural growth in the predominantly rural society was disappointing. The recent peace process, however, gives the country new opportunities to develop its economy with less interference due to internal conflict.
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As NREGS is gaining popularity, finding labourers for farm work has become herculean task } DO not implement the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in the agriculture-intensive areas in the district, farmers here said in a petition submitted to District Collector P Umanath.
This publication is a joint effort by the GEF partnership to showcase some of the insights gained from the now substantial portfolio of GEF-funded adaptation projects. The GEF has invested over $13 billion
Bangladesh is often referred to as the “ground zero for climate change”. The topography and location of the country make it highly prone to extreme weather events, including cyclones, floods, salinity
During the 1960s and 1970s there was an intense debate on the observed inverse relationship between farm size and per hectare agricultural productivity in India. It was subsequently argued that the higher
Eminent agri-scientist National Professor and former Vice Chancellor of Bangladesh Agriculture University Professor Dr. A.K.M. Aminul Haque said that Biotechnology has a potential to alleviate poverty and hunger in developing countries including Bangladesh and deserves an extra focus from concerned scientists and functionaries.
This publication highlights the significance of the seed and new crop technologies. It captures the experiences of three key developments in Indian agriculture that sustained growth in agriculture, contributed to increased food production and the alleviation of poverty and hunger.
Groundwater has emerged as the main source of irrigation for smallholder farmers in India and much of it has been through private investments. West Bengal is no exception. Here, revising groundwater policies
Predicts no more than 6.5% yearly from now till FY19, and only with a stable and decisive govt Analytical firm CRISIL Research said on Sunday it expected the economy to grow by 6.5 per cent yearly, on an average, from 2014-15 to 2018-19 — roughly the period of the next government if it lasts a full term. This is way down from the nine per cent annual growth rate from 2003-04 to 2010-11, briefly snapped by the global financial crisis of 2008-09, it said.
This publication provides an in-depth analysis and study of gender-responsive adaptation approaches being implemented in six countries under the Canada-UNDP Climate Change Adaptation Facility. The study
This paper examines the evolution of poverty in India through the prism of agricultural wages and employment. It links the movement in wages (and hence poverty) to the fundamental process of sectoral labour flow that underlies economic development. It finds that despite the rapid growth of the non-farm sector, its success in drawing labour from land has been limited.