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A Conceptual Framework for a Training Curriculum on Natural Disaster Risk Reduction and Management for Agriculture and the Rural Space

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April, 2016

This paper presents the conceptual framework for a training program on
integrating disaster risk reduction and climate-change mitigation into
Agriculture and Rural Development Department (ARD) programming. Its
target audience consists of World Bank task team leaders and their national
counterparts and partners working in agriculture and rural settings.

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 °C global warming could be dangerous

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Reports & Research
March, 2016
Myanmar

Abstract. "We use numerical climate simulations, paleoclimate data, and modern observations to study the effect of growing ice melt from Antarctica and Greenland. Meltwater tends to stabilize the ocean column, inducing amplifying feedbacks that increase subsurface ocean warming and ice shelf melting.

Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (2016 anaw 3).

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Legislation
March, 2016
United Kingdom

This Act makes provision with respect to a wide variety of matters regarding the environment in Wales including: the sustainable management of natural resources (includes animals, plants and other organisms, air, water and soil) climate change and targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases from Wales; collection and disposal of waste; shellfish fisheries; marine licensing; land drainage

Ordonnance n° 2016-011 P-RM du 17 mars 2016 portant création de l’unité de gestion de la grande muraille verte.

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Legislation
March, 2016
Mali

La présente Ordonnance crée l’unité de Gestion de la Grande Muraille Verte (UGMV), rattachée au Secrétariat général du Ministère chargé de l’Environnement, ayant pour mission d’assurer la réalisation et la gestion du segment malien de la barrière verte de protection contre l’avancée du désert dans la bande sahélienne comprise entre les isohyètes 100 et 400 mm sur une distance de 2.600 km de lon

FAO/WFP CROP AND FOOD SECURITY ASSESSMENT MISSION TO MYANMAR

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Reports & Research
March, 2016
Myanmar

Highlights:

Cyclone Komen made landfall in Myanmar at the end of July 2015
causing extensive flooding to
agricultural land, which remained
submerged
in some areas until September. This caused severe
localized losses to the 2015 monsoon season crops, especially p
addy, in Chin, Rakhine,
Ayeyarwaddy, Yangon, Sagaing

Acuerdo Nº 48 - Instructivo para la Obtención de Certificaciones de Exoneración del Impuesto a las Tierras Rurales Emitidas por el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca (MAGAP).

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Regulations
March, 2016
Ecuador

El presente Acuerdo expide el Instructivo para la Obtención de Certificaciones de Exoneración del Impuesto a las Tierras Rurales Emitidas por el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca (MAGAP), que establece el procedimiento para que los sujetos pasivos obtengan de forma gratuita la certificación expedida por el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca (MAGAP)

Myanmar - Flood and Landslide Emergency Recovery Project : indigenous peoples plan : Environmental and social management framework (English)

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Reports & Research
March, 2016
Myanmar

Abstract: "The objective of the Flood and Landslide Emergency Recovery Project for Myanmar is to support recovery in priority disaster-affected areas and, in the event of another eligible crisis or emergency, to provide immediate and effective response to said eligible crisis or emergency.

Rising Tempers, Rising Temperatures

LandLibrary Resource
March, 2016

Section one of the papers provides a
brief overview of the relationship between the Sahel region
of Africa and climate variability trends and predictions,
ultimately posing the primary research question of the
study: Is the Sahel region more likely to have a higher