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Entre a Implosão do El Dorado e a Contínua Degradação das Condições de Vida dos Reassentados

Journal Articles & Books
Septiembre, 2016
Mozambique

Este texto aborda as questões locais do impacto dos mega-projectos de mineração sobre o meio rural e agricultura - as condições de vida das pessoas reassentadas, não havendo alguma abrangência para aspectos de natureza macro. A pesquisa analisa o percurso do El Dorado Tete e a evolução das condições de vida da população reassentada em Cateme nos últimos cinco anos. A principal conclusão é de que o El Dorado Tete implodiu e as condições de vida das pessoas reassentadas em Cateme estão em contínua degradação.

Case Study: Farmer–Herder Conflicts in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana

Reports & Research
Septiembre, 2016
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Côte d'Ivoire

This chapter is a case study that tests hypotheses in order to determine if political factors can reduce violence in cases of climate-change-induced or -aggravated agro-pastoral conflicts over natural resources. Three West African countries were selected because of their common socio-economic and environmental characteristics and because they host comparable farmer–herder conflicts: Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. The level of farmer–herder conflicts is estimated to have risen between 1960 and 2000 in the three countries.

Financing Landfill Gas Projects in Developing Countries

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
Septiembre, 2016

Landfill gas (LFG) management can help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to the overall safe operation of a landfill, sometimes simultaneously generating revenue. However, financing these systems can be a challenge, particularly in low-resource settings. Recognizing that landfill emissions are expected to rise into the foreseeable future, this report outlines a variety of ways that city governments, private landfill owners, or other project developers finance LFG management systems that mitigate these emissions.

Nomadic Custodians. A Case for Securing Pastoralist Land Rights

Reports & Research
Septiembre, 2016
África

A brief on the need to secure land rights for the world’s pastoralists, who manage rangelands that cover a quarter of the world’s land surface but have few advocates. Covers the different paths pastoralists take; resource scarcity in the face of uncertainty; pastoralism and land use; loss and fragmentation of pastoralist lands and blocking of livestock routes; managing climatic variability and climate change; initiatives for securing pastoralists rights to land (Niger, Tanzania, India, Ethiopia).

The technical mitigation potential of demand-side measures in the agri-food sector: a preliminary assessment of available measures

Reports & Research
Septiembre, 2016

A number of studies have suggested that addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agricultural

production, or ‘supply-side emissions’, will be insufficient to reduce agri-food sector GHG emissions to limit

the increase of global temperatures to well below 2o

C. Recent studies have also suggested that ‘demandside

measures’ related to food consumption, food value chains, and food loss and waste, will be necessary

to reduce emissions and may have a larger technical mitigation potential than supply-side measures.

Mapping adaptive capacity and smallholder agriculture: applying expert knowledge at the landscape scale

Journal Articles & Books
Septiembre, 2016
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Honduras
América central
América del Sur

The impacts of climate change exacerbate the myriad challenges faced by smallholder farmers in the Tropics. In many of these same regions, there is a lack of current, consistent, and spatially-explicit data, which severely limits the ability to locate smallholder communities, map their adaptive capacity, and target adaptation measures to these communities.

Breves acotaciones sobre la agricultura resiliente al clima

Policy Papers & Briefs
Septiembre, 2016
Venezuela

La agricultura resiliente al clima está en vigencia hoy más que antes debido a los constantes cambios que experimenta nuestro planeta. Al comprender los orígenes de las investigaciones sobre la agricultura y el cambio climático, el autor busca unir la tecnología y los saberes ancestrales de los pueblos para la producción alimenticia más eficiente. Como parte de una serie de artículos cortos de opinión, este texto llega a plantear una postura sobre la agricultura resiliente al clima.

Rapport technique: Analyse de vulnérabilité au changement climatique du couvert forestier

Journal Articles & Books
Agosto, 2016
Túnez
África

Le site pilote retenu est celui du bassin versant de Siliana (figure 1.1). Le gouvernorat auquel il appartient, et dont il porte le nom, s’étend sur une surface totale de 464 200 ha. Ce gouvernorat est situé dans la partie sud-est de la région nord-ouest de la Tunisie qui englobe les quatre gouvernorats du Kef, Jendouba, Siliana et Béja.

Investimentos, assimetrias e movimentos de protesto na província de Tete

Journal Articles & Books
Agosto, 2016
Mozambique

O texto pretende analisar a distribuição do grande investimento económico pelos diferentes distritos da província de Tete, procurando identificar impactos socio-económicos, a emergência de novos problemas sociais e respectivas formas de protesto. Na análise constata-se a concentração do grande investimento no eixo Tete-Moatize, a reboque da indústria extractiva, alimentando assimetrias sócio-espaciais e atraindo movimentos migratórios, que concorreram para a saturação das infraestruturas urbanas.

Options for agriculture at Marrakech climate talks: messages for SBSTA 45 agriculture negotiators

Reports & Research
Agosto, 2016

SBSTA 45 in Marrakech represents a unique opportunity for Parties to decide on the future of agriculture within the UNFCCC. The process of discussions on issues related to agriculture initiated at COP17 in Durban 2011 culminates at COP22 in Marrakech 2016. The explicit reference to food security in the preamble of the Paris Agreement and the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions which prioritize agriculture as a sector for adaptation and mitigation actions, provide a foundation for Parties to develop appropriate frameworks to support