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Biodiversity and the Great Green Wall : Managing nature for sustainable development in the Sahel

The Great Green Wall is one of the main vehicles for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals and the Rio conventions in the Sahel. Biodiversity is the foundation of the Great Green Wall in many ways, determining soil productivity and water cycles and providing the foundation for risk management and resilient ecosystems. The Great Green Wall can make a major contribution to achieving many of…

Biodiversity and the Great Green Wall : Managing nature for sustainable development in the Sahel
Improving ways to record tenure rights

This guide addresses the recording of tenure rights with the particular focus on improving existing ways to record rights. There are many recording systems around the world that help to bring tenure security and other benefits to people who hold tenure rights, but there are also many systems that do not function well, and barriers can be placed …

Improving ways to record tenure rights
Valuing land tenure rights. A technical guide on valuing land tenure rights in line with the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

Valuations of tenure rights are required by the State and by the private sector for a wide variety of reasons, often forming and informing the basis of transactions, taxation, compensation and accounting. Value and the valuation process form a part of our everyday lives, and yet these are often shrouded in mystery and are not clearly understood. …

Valuing land tenure rights. A technical guide on valuing land tenure rights in line with the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security
A New Textiles Economy: Redesigning Fashion’s Future

It is hard to imagine living in a world without textiles. Nearly everyone, everywhere comes into contact with them nearly all the time. This is especially true of clothing, the focus of this report. Clothes provide comfort and protection, and for many represent an important expression of individuality. The textiles industry is also a significant sector in the global economy,…

A New Textiles Economy: Redesigning Fashion’s Future
The Impact of Multi-fibre Agreement Phase-out on Sub-Saharan Africa’s Textiles and Clothing Exports

This paper analyses exports of textiles and clothing (T&C) from Sub-Saharan African countries in the decade leading to and after a phase out of the Agreement on Textile and Clothing (ATC) (Multi-fibre Agreement restrictions on T&C export)—from 1990s to 2016 using WTO and World Bank data sets—to ascertain the initial effects of the end of quotas and other restrictions on global trade in textile…

The Impact of Multi-fibre Agreement Phase-out on Sub-Saharan Africa’s Textiles and Clothing Exports
Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in Practice in the Kagera Basin: Lessons learned for scaling up at landscape level - Results o fthe Kagera Transboundary Agro-ecosystem Management Project (Kagera TAMP)

The Kagera Transboundary Agro-ecosystem Management Project (Kagera TAMP) is part of the TerrAfrica Strategic Investment Program (SIP) for sustainable land management (SLM) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The SIP was the response from the Global Environment Fund (GEF) to support SSA countries under GEF 4 to tackle land degradation. The SIP provided a challenging framework bringing together the World…

Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in Practice in the Kagera Basin: Lessons learned for scaling up at landscape level - Results o fthe Kagera Transboundary Agro-ecosystem Management Project (Kagera TAMP)