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Despite substantial success in establishing National Drought Policies, drought impacts continue to increase around the globe. This session will review progress since the High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP) held in 2013 and discuss o the way forward to scaling up and accelerating implementation of Integrated Drought Management. In March 2013, a High-Level Meeting on…

Determined to empower women and young people in Tunisia, Sarah Toumi initiated a reforestation programme to promote agro-ecological techniques and plant forest gardens and green corridors. Leading organisation: Dream in Tunisia The country where the team is based: Tunisia Theme: Biodiversity, Education for Sustainable Development Sub-themes: Climate change,…

The SDG Update compiles the news, commentary and upcoming events that are published on the SDG Knowledge Hub each day, delivering information on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to your inbox.

For many rural mountain communities, tourism is a lifeline, contributing in particular to SDGs 1, 2 and 8. However, mountain tourism can also negatively affect fragile mountain ecosystems, endanger biodiversity, fail to ensure local people benefit from revenues, and even threaten the identity of mountain communities themselves. In anticipation of the return of large…

The Climate Policy Journal announced the top ten downloaded papers from among those published in 2021. Congratulations to all the featured authors! Please check the Climate Policy website to view all papers. Use the links above

Protecting our land, soil and water resources for the future of our food. Soil, land, water. These are the basics, the building blocks of our agrifood systems, and supply over 95 percent of food consumed. Though there is much more to it than that, a new FAO report is reminding us of these foundations. And the foundations, it seems, are cracking. FAO’s new State of the World’s…