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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    Global

    The UNEP foresight report contains a description of the 21 emerging environmental issues identified through the UNEP Foresight Process. The process resulted in a list of 21 emerging environmental issues tagged 21 Issues for the 21st Century covering the major themes of the global environment including food, land, freshwater, marine, biodiversity, climate change, energy, waste, and technology, as well important cross-cutting issues ranging from the need for better environmental governance, to the need for human behavioral change towards the environment.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    Global

    Violent conflicts typically cause significant changes to land tenure and its administration. A widespread conflict
    lasting for a number of years may result in successive waves of displacement of people. People may lose their land because they have been forcibly evicted, or they may abandon their land because of fear of violence. Those displaced are forced to seek land to settle, either within the country as Internally Displaced Persons, or externally as refugees. People living in safer areas may have lost access to their land with the

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2020
    Guatemala, Nigeria, Rwanda, Vietnam

    Investments that reduce food loss and waste can deliver big wins on two pressing issues of our time: food security and environmental sustainability, according to a new World Bank report. But the results are not automatic -- countries need well-targeted solutions.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2020
    Africa

    The 2020 Africa SDG Index and Dashboards Report provides an assessment of where African countries stand with respect to the SDGs and their progress toward the goals, with the additional lens of “leave no one behind.” The report also includes a preliminary analysis of the impact of COVID‑19 on the SDGs in Africa.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2006
    Ethiopia

    Empirical investigation of the impact of institutional and socioeconomic factors on agricultural productivity and natural resource conditions is important for an informed evaluation of current policies, and to identify areas for future improvements. In this line, the current study addresses three topics of relevance to the process of agricultural intensification and natural resource management in the context of the less-favoured Highlands of Tigray, Ethiopia.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Global

    Efficient land governance has long been recognized as a major driver of sustainable and equitable
    development. Carried out effectively, it can enable us to address critical challenges such as those of climate
    change, urbanization, gender equality, and food security. But the technical complexity of land administration,
    together with institutional and political hurdles, often made the governance of land weak and ineffective,
    thereby reinforcing deep-seated inequalities and creating inertia, instead of contributing to growth and

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Global

    This report explores how the management of land-based biomass production and consumption can be developed towards a higher degree of sustainability across different scales: from the sustainable management of soils on the field to the sustainable management of global land use as a whole. Under business as usual conditions, the growing demand for food and non-food biomass could lead to a gross expansion of cropland in the range of 320 to 850 million hectares by 2050.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Global

    The development of modern high efficiency bioenergy technologies has the potential to improve energy security and access while reducing environmental impacts and stimulating low-carbon development. While modern bioenergy production is increasing in the world, it still makes a small contribution to our energy matrix. At present, approximately 87% of energy demand is satisfied by energy produced through consumption of fossil fuels.

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2018
    Global

    Land degradation is becoming a serious environmental issue threatening fertile agricultural soils and other natural resources. There are many driving forces behind land degradation. The expansion of artificial surfaces due to various economic activities, such as housing, industry, and transport infrastructure, known as soil sealing, constitutes one of the most intensive forms of land degradation in urban regions. Measures to halt and reverse land degradation require both strong land-use management policies, as well as effective spatial planning mechanisms.

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