”Enhancing country capacity for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change reporting processes for the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use sector: Uruguay” summarizes the support provided by FAO between 2014 and 2015 to the government of Uruguay, through the Monitoring and Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Mitigation in Agriculture (MAGHG) project.

This guide complements the Food Security and Climate Change Challenge Badge activity booklet. The resources and activity ideas are designed to support you and your group and to help you educate children and youth about climate change and food security. The guide contains simple teaching tools to make learning appealing and fun, and provides a selection of activities and exercises to carry out individually or in your group. The guide can be used to achieve the Food Security and Climate Change Challenge Badge or can be used separately.

The Agricultural Water Solutions Project aims to unlock the potential of smallholder farming by identifying, evaluating and recommending a variety of agricultural water management (AWM) solutions - including technologies as well as the necessary supporting policies, institutions, financing arrangements and associated business models. This is being achieved through a series of interlinked activities in the seven project sites in Africa (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia) and in India (Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal).

Les forêts représentent bien plus que des arbres: elles sont fondamentales pour la sécurité alimentaire et l'amélioration des moyens d’existence. Lorsqu’elles sont gérées dans une optique durable, les forêts peuvent renforcer la résilience des communautés en fournissant des services économiques, sociaux et environnementaux fondamentaux, tels que l’alimentation, le bois-énergie, le logement, le fourrage et les fibres.

The Country Programming Framework for Thailand has the overall objective of providing a strategic guideline for future work programmes to be implemented by Royal Thai Government and FAO in close partnership with other UN agencies and development partners. The CPF has been formulated through a number of meetings and consultations with Thai government ministries and departments, United Nations organizations, development partners, civil society organizations, non-government organizations and the private sector.

Meeting symbol/code: FO:LACFC/2015/Inf.2
Session: Sess. 29

Cuando en el año 2000 se aprobaron los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM), la comunidad internacional contrajo un compromiso sin precedentes para satisfacer las necesidades de los pobres del mundo y salvaguardarlos de las amenazas del siglo XXI2. Los mandatarios de 147 Estados reafirmaron los principios de reducción de la pobreza, gobernanza democrática y protección de los derechos humanos, que han sido el núcleo del sistema de las Naciones Unidas desde su creación tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

La publication de ce numéro d’Unasylva coïncide avec deux événements marquants pour les forêts. Les 196 Parties à la Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques viennent de se réunir à la Conférence Paris climat 2015 en vue de négocier un accord qui soit en mesure de changer la donne en matière de changement climatique. Toujours à Paris, le Global Landscapes Forum 2015, Forum mondial sur les paysages, a été le théâtre de discussions de haut niveau portant sur la recherche et les politiques qui sous-tendent les questions d’utilisation des terres.

Rapid urbanization is coming together with great challenges regarding employment, food and nutrition security and infrastructures. Simultaneously, many rapidly growing cities are facing increasing water shortages, often aggravated by the effects of climate change, and insufficient sanitation coverage with higher exposure to contaminants.

This user instruction guide provides detailed description of the Emissions Overview On-line Tool, which is part of the AFOLU Emissions Analysis Tools aimed at supporting Member Countries in improving their national capacity to address UNFCCC reporting requirements and to design climate policy actions (i.e. GHG Inventories, Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions – NAMAs – and Nationally Determined Contributions – NDCs) for the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector.

تشكِّل التربة السليمة أكبر مستودع للكربون الأرضي. ويمكن للتربة عندما تدار بطريقة مستدامة أن تقوم بدور هام في التخفيف من آثار تغيُّر المناخ عن طريق تخزين الكربون )احتجاز الكربون( وتخفيض انبعاثات غازات الدفيئة في الغلاف الجوي. وفي المقابل، عندما تساء إدارة التربة أو تزرع باتباع ممارسات زراعية غير مستدامة، يمكن لكربون التربة أن ينطلق في الغلاف الجوي في شكل ثاني أكسيد كربون وهو ما يمكن أن يساهم في تغيُّر المناخ. وأدّى استمرار تحويل الأراضي العشبية وأراضي الغابات إلى أراضٍ لزراعة المحاصيل وللرعي خلال السنوات العشرين الأخيرة إلى إحداث خسائر تاريخية في كربون التربة على نطاق العالم.

Where do forests and forestry stand today in international climate change negotiations? What exactly does it mean to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+)? What are the opportunities and risks for forests in today’s changing climate and is there a clear path forward? The articles in this issue address these and other questions.