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The handbook covers key areas such as mainstreaming climate policies, gender and climate change, climate finance and market based mechanisms for mitigation adaptation. Journalists are also advised on best practices in reporting on climate governance and given ideas on how to bring in climate governance perspectives into stories that would otherwise be considered as unrelated.

The negative effects of climate change are projected to affect the populations with the least capacity to adjust, but with the greatest need for improved agricultural performance to achieve food security and reduce poverty. The purpose of the paper is to identify how climate change affects how we should approach the process of transforming agricultural systems (including crops, livestock,…

The land-use sector serves key environmental and social functions and supports the livelihoods of around a half of the world’s population. Despite its importance, however, the climate regime fails to formulate a coherent vision or set of incentives for mitigation and adaptation from the sector. The negotiation of a future climate treaty that will take effect in 2020 presents a key…

In 2013, the International Land Coalition (ILC) marked a historic expansion in its membership, reaching 152 member organisations in 56 countries, representing diverse interests and entities from national civil society organisations (CSOs) and grassroots movements to international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and United Nations agencies, all with a common agenda to work together on behalf…

The guide is intended to assist extension agents in the East African region conduct training events for farmers and other interested stakeholder in Conservation Agriculture With Trees (CAWT) specifically farmers and those wishing to practice Conservation Agriculture may also find this guide useful. CAWT involves the integration of crop-friendly trees (mainly high value agroforestry tree species…

The contribution of agriculture, forestry and fisheries to global emissions of greenhouse gases is well recognized. So are the critical gaps in information, knowledge and capacity development which need to be addressed with urgency. Meeting these challenges can allow member countries to reduce their emissions through changes to management practices that can simultaneously improve productivity,…