Africa Agriculture Status Report 2017
<p>Africa's food market may be worth more than US$1 trillion each year by 2030, according to this latest report on the state of agriculture in Africa.</p>
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Gender approaches in climate compatible development: lessons from India
Women’s economic contribution to India’s rapid economic growth is now being recognised and supported by the Government of India through concrete policy and financial measures. In this context, the report
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Third Global Science Conference on Climate -Smart Agriculture, 16-18 March 2015, France
According to the FAO, Climate smart agriculture (CSA) is a way to achieve short and long term agricultural development priorities in the face of climate change and serve as an integrator to other development
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Realizing the full potential of social safety nets in Africa
Poverty has been declining in Sub-Saharan Africa, but millions are still poor or vulnerable. To address this ongoing and complex problem, all countries in the region have now deployed social safety net
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Set for success: climate-proofing the Malabo declaration
Launching on 14 June 2016, the Montpellier Panel briefing paper ‘Set for success: Climate-proofing the Malabo declaration’ explores the climate change-related targets set out by the Malabo Declaration,
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Set for success: climate-proofing the Malabo declaration
Launching on 14 June 2016, the Montpellier Panel briefing paper ‘Set for success: Climate-proofing the Malabo declaration’ explores the climate change-related targets set out by the Malabo Declaration,
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Mapping Indian agricultural emissions: lessons for food system transformation and policy support for climate-smart agriculture
This paper is an attempt to provide a guide for database creation and the development of a district-level database on emissions from agriculture in India. In this study, all the Indian districts are categorized
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Third Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture, 14-16 March 2015, France
Discussion sessions will be devoted to a range of topics including: metrics of adaptation, mitigation and food security; uncertainties and risks; synergies and tradeoffs; economics and low hanging fruits;
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Climate-smart trade and investment in Asia and the Pacific: towards a triple-win outcome
Managing climate change caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been recognized as one of the world's greatest challenges in current times, in particular in Asia and the Pacific which accounts for
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The State of Asian and Pacific Cities 2015: urban transformations shifting from quantity to quality
<p>By 2050, the urban population in Asia and the Pacific is expected to reach 3.2 billion says the State of Asian and Pacific Cities 2015. This report launched at Sixth Asian Pacific Urban Forum (APUF-6) in Jakarta warns of the urban environmental challanges and calls for urgent response to harness Asia-Pacific’s urban transformation</p>
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Climate-smart livestock interventions in West Africa: a review
The livestock sector is one of the major contributors in agriculture, by some estimates contributing up to 18% of the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Of this, about one third is reported to be due
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Future smart food: rediscovering hidden treasures of neglected and underutilized species for zero hunger in Asia
For centuries people in Asia and the Pacific region have grown and consumed a wide variety of nutritious foods. Unfortunately, more recent generations have slowly but surely changed their diets and have
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Charting new waters: state of watershed payments 2012
<p><span id="itro1">This report tracks a rich and diverse portfolio of over 200 programs worldwide in more than 30 countries that have found creative ways to finance safe drinking water and instream supplies
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Dampener on carbon trading
The high aspirations that the Indian green energy-based companies had nurtured for generating additional resources through carbon trading have begun to fade. Their Chinese counterparts have out-smarted them by wooing away customers, largely from the European Union (EU), and forcing them to search for new buyers and even opt for lower prices. Though India, on paper, is still the second largest seller of carbon credits, its market share, reckoned in 2007 at an abysmal 6 per cent, looks insignificant when compared with the 73 per cent market share enjoyed by China.
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Energy access and renewables: is a leapfrog possible?
<p>Energy access and renewables: is a leapfrog possible? - a presentation by Sunita Narain, Director General, CSE at Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2014: Energy Access and Renewable Energy, February 27-28, 2014,
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Taking the heat out of farming
The World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) has released a report on its “Taking the Heat Out of Farming” project that helps Indian smallholders to join the global carbon market in Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan.
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Leveraging urbanization in South Asia: managing spatial transformation for prosperity and livability- Conference Edition
<p>Despite progress, South Asia has failed to capitalize on urbanization says the World Bank report released this week. Instead of using increasing urbanization as a vehicle to convey prosperity to a greater number of people, the countries of the region have “difficulty in dealing with the pressures that increased urban populations put on infrastructure, basic services, land, housing and the environment,” which in turn has fostered “messy and hidden” urbanization</p>
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State of Indian agriculture 2015-16
<p>This report on the State of Indian Agriculture 2015-16 seeks to present a comprehensive analysis of the recent growth and performance of the agriculture and allied sectors and also to analyze the major emerging challenges. </p>
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South Asia's hotspots: impacts of temperature and precipitation changes on living standards
<p>Climate change could cost India 2.8 per cent of GDP, and lower living standards of nearly half of its population by 2050, as average annual temperatures are expected to rise by 1-2 per cent over three decades, warns this new report released by the World Bank</p>
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ClimaAdapt: Adaptation through innovation
<p>How should India and other countries adapt their agricultural practices to a changing climate? In a new film, researchers explain how they go about in the ClimaAdapt project when developing new rice growing technologies and undertaking capacity building of farmers.</p> <p>There is growing consensus among the world’s scientific community that our climate is changing. Countries in the tropics and sub-tropics are particularly vulnerable as extreme weather conditions pose a serious threat to their food security. For India, the rapidly growing economy, climate change and variability may have a negative impact on the well-being of a steadily increasing population, of which the vast majority reside in rural areas and are highly dependent on natural resources for their food, shelter and income.</p>