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The number of city dwellers is at an all-time high of about 3.5 billion and will nearly double in the next 30 to 40 years, with almost all the growth in developing countries, the head of the U.N. agency focusing on cities said Monday.
Joan Clos said even though the rate of population growth is…
Combler les inégalités entre les sexes dans l’agriculture est pour beaucoup indispensable dans la lutte contre la pauvreté et le renforcement de la sécurité alimentaire. Le changement climatique aggraverait aussi les conséquences de ces inégalités.
« Si nous voulons un développement durable, les…
In 2010, I was sitting in a World Bank meeting where initial principles were being discussed for guiding large-scale agricultural investments – which had grown dramatically after the food price spike of 2008.
Governments, the private sector, civil society, and others all wanted to promote…
Satellites provide a wealth of information about our planet’s resources. NASA’s Landsat satellite, for example, produces images that can be analyzed by complex algorithms to calculate areas of forest loss with greater precision than ever before. These advances allow Global Forest Watch to create an…
By 2050, the world will have to feed 9 billion people, which will require 50 percent more agricultural productivity over current levels. Meeting this challenge will be increasingly difficult, given the threats to global food supplies not only from climate change but also from large-scale…
Source: Rural 21
Published: 10 November 2014
After a two-year negotiation process, the Committee on World Food Security has approved the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems.
The Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems recently…
Le Portail foncier recrute les membres du Conseil de la toute nouvelle Fondation du Portail foncier et est à la recherche de candidates.
Contexte
Le Portail foncier est un site Internet à portée internationale ayant pour vocation de recueillir les informations foncières provenant de sources…
El Land Portal busca nuevos miembros para la Junta Directiva de la recientemente establecida Land Portal Foundation (Fundación Land Portal) y está buscando candidatas.
Antecedentes
El Land Portal es un portal global que lleva hacia información relacionada con la cuestión de la tierra, agregando…
REMINDER: Call for expression of interest still open. Women are particularly encouraged to apply. ()
The Land Portal is recruiting new Board members of the recently established Land Portal Foundation and is looking for female candidates.
Background
The Land Portal is a global gateway for aggregating information on land from multiple sources and building a specialized community of land experts…
Source: LANDESA
This infographic is the first to document the wide range of benefits that flow from women’s land tenure security.
The infographic makes clear that women’s secure tenure can help us reach a number of our most critical sustainable development goals – from improved nutrition,…
The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), a joint center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute, is excited to announce an interdisciplinary executive-level training course on sustainable investments in agriculture, designed primarily for public sector officials and civil…
WOCAN in collaboration with RECOFTC- The Center for People and Forests has developed an infographic to highlight the discussions and recommendations of the Regional Dialogue on Women’s Inclusion in Landscape Management, held on 7-9 October 2014 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The dialogue brought together…