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Mainstreaming environment and climate change in national development planning, policies and implementation is central to UNDP’s mission of reducing poverty and achieving the MDGs. The UNDP Drylands Development Center is dedicated to fighting poverty and achieving sustainable development in the drier regions of the world, contributing to the effective implementation of the United Nations…

Through a comprehensive analysis of Africa’s most pressing competitiveness challenges, the report discusses the barriers to increased trade, including the state of Africa’s infrastructure and its legal and regulatory environment. It similarly considers how innovative public-private partnerships, often anchored to potential growth poles, can serve as incubators for self-sustaining…

This publication sets goals of 20% improvement per decade on each of its three goals: economic growth and opportunity, food security and nutrition, and environmental sustainability. Realizing these goals on a global level will require the right combination of actions, balancing agriculture-sector growth with sustainability.In the coming decades, a growing and increasingly affluent global…

The first ever Soil atlas of Africa uses striking maps, informative texts and stunning photographs to answer and explain these and other questions. Leading soil scientists from Europe and Africa have collaborated to produce this unique document. Using state-of-the-art computer mapping techniques, the Soil Atlas of Africa shows the changing nature of soil across the continent. It explains the…

Finding business solutions to tackle hunger and undernutrition in sub-Saharan Africa continues to sit at the top of the global political agenda. We have seen firsthand the power that providing enterprise skills and market access can have in empowering smallholder farmers to boost their production, improve their nutrition and increase their incomes – when managed effectively and coupled with…

At the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in June 2012 world leaders recognized land degradation, desertification and drought as serious global challenges, impeding sustainable development of all countries and committed to “strive to achieve a land-degradation neutral world” by restoring land and avoiding further land degradation. They also reaffirmed their resolve under the…