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The Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) advocates for urgent and ambitious climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as a rights-based approach to climate action. This includes effective international cooperation based on the principles of equity, accountability, inclusiveness, transparency, equality and non-discrimination. State …

A joint FAO-WFP analysis of countries and situations where acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate over the coming months. Acute hunger set to soar in over 20 countries, warn FAO and WFP: call for urgent and at-scale action to avert rising hunger and risk of famine ROME -- Acute hunger is set to soar in over 20 countries in the coming months without urgent and scaled-up…

In this working paper, the biophysical factors and socio-economic conditions that led to Land Use and Land Cover Changes (LULC) and land degradation in Burkina Faso are reviewed. It is found that the country is densely populated and population continues to rise at a rate of more than 3% a year. However, nearly half of the population still lives below the poverty line. The…

Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa with a population of more than 110 million. With over 10 percent growth rate, the Ethiopian economy has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world over the last one and half decades. By any measure agriculture is the dominant economic sector in the country accounting for a sizeable portion of the GDP growth, generating…

Mali is a Sub-Saharan African country with 19.1 million people. Almost half of this population lives in poverty, due to the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource management especially land and water together with corollaries remain one of the greatest challenges for this dryland region to sustainably face climate change,…

The Sahel is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change in the world. Located in the central part, Niger is facing many complex and interconnected challenges which strongly hinder the achievement of the key sustainable development goals (SDGs). The high population growth rate (3.8% per year), weak infrastructure capacity, shortage of essential resources (including water,…