A presentation from a workshop on developing pastoral system resilience indicators, held in Addis Ababa on 14-15th December 2023.
Ruth Meinzen-Dick POLICY SEMINAR Research Findings on Resilience & Social Cohesion in Burkina Faso and Niger Co-organized by IFPRI, World Food Programme (WFP), Institute for Peace and Development (IPD), and the CGIAR Research Initiative on Fragility, Conflict, and Migration (FCM) JUL 11, 2023 - 9:00 TO 10:30AM EDT
On December 4 to 7, 2023, The United Nations World Food Programme will host the first Impact Evaluation Forum in Rome, Italy.
Livestock production is a major livelihood in many parts of Africa, providing multiple benefits and uses that include milk, meat, payment of dowry, measure of wealth, draft power among others. In particular, extensive livestock systems support most of Africa’s livestock population, with 63%, 82% and 70% of the continent’s cattle, sheep and goats, respectively. Mostly, they are raised in climate-sensitive arid and semi-arid areas of Africa in subsistence level rain-fed systems.
The report documents the results of the country launch of the CGIAR Initiative on Securing the Food Systems of Asian Mega-Deltas for Climate and Livelihood Resilience (AMD) held in Dhaka City, Bangladesh on 10 August 2022.
This case study in Zambia examines existing Early Warning, Early Action and Financing (EWEAF) initiatives in response to floods. It looks at the institutional gaps, arrangements, innovations and challenges that may affect progress and speed of actions. It employs the concept of anticipatory governance and polycentric governance arrangements to identify the appropriate institutional conditions to support Governance 4 Resilience.
CGIAR Initiative on Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia and North Africa (F2R-CWANA) proposal for 2022-2025 (Q1) business cycle, revised from original submission based on ISDC feedback.
This publication synthesizes climate characteristics and projections, vulnerability to natural hazards, sectoral climate change impacts, and adaptation priorities in Kazakhstan.
Secure land tenure is key to eradicating poverty;increasing agricultural investment and ensuring food security;and is an essential element of climate action and climate resilience. Yet women have far weaker rights to land than men. These disadvantages exist broadly and with few exceptions globally and are especially limiting to the well-being of women and their families in rural areas;where land is the basis for livelihood;identity;social standing and social security.
Includes overview;the problem: Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) finance a destructive model;current situation: DFIs write off loans;impacted communities face repression;human rights abuses;the role of European DFIs;recommendations. The negative outcomes experienced in the case of Feronia Inc.
Growing external pressures from human activities and climate change can exacerbate desertification, compromising the livelihoods of more than 25% of the world’s population. The dryland mosaic is defined by land covers that do not behave similarly, and the identification of their recurring or irregular changes over time is crucial, especially in areas susceptible to become desertified.