This guide describes two of the main approaches to greenhouse gas mitigation planning in developing countries: Low-Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs). It explains the possible relationships between them and their status within the United…
The Global Soil Partnership (GSP) was formally established by members of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) during its Council in December 2012. The Council recognized soil as an essential natural resource, which is often overlooked and has not received adequate…
This review of national greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation planning in the agriculture sector provides national policy makers and others in the agriculture sector with an overview of national mitigation planning processes to aid them in identifying the relevance of these processes for promoting…
Meeting symbol/code: GSPPA-I/13/Report
Session: Sess.1
This document contains the proceedings of the technical workshop entitled “Expanding mariculture: technical, environmental, spatial and governance challenges”, held from 22 to 25 March 2010, in Orbetello, Italy, and organized by the Aquaculture Branch of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department…
Resumo Após uma década da aprovação do Estatuto da Cidade - marco regulatório da política urbana no Brasil inserido no ¢mbito das reformas políticas e jurídicas anunciadas pela Constituinte de 1988 - cabe debater se, onde, quando e de que forma este tem sido implementado no país. Este balanço…
Key messages:
- Smallholder farmers and forestry producers have a crucial role to play in food security, sustainable land use and emissions reductions initiatives.
- Producers and investors alike require appropriate incentive structures to facilitate participation in sustainable land…
Up to 75% of deforestation in Brazil is associated with cattle ranching. To reduce forest conversion and increase sustainability in the cattle supply chain, government, private sector and civil society support interventions based on combinations of institutions and policies, incentives, and…
This report explores alternative ways to
finance municipal capital expenditures while maintaining
macroeconomic stability and fiscal discipline. It tries to
estimate the financing effort that municipalities will need
to make…
Pinto, L. H. (2015). Conflictos Ambientales y apropiación de territorios rurales en Brasil y Argentina, un análisis a partir de los actores sociales involucrados : estudio comparativo de la acción internacional de La Vía Campesina (Tesis de Doctorado). Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Bernal,…
The first central message of this report
is that Brazil has over the last years achieved great
progress in its social policies and indicators. The second
central message is that poverty remains unacceptably high
for a…
The first central message of this report
is that Brazil has over the last years achieved great
progress in its social policies and indicators. The second
central message is that poverty remains unacceptably high
for a…