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Nearly three years ago, world leaders agreed to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – the central framework for guiding development policies throughout the world. This edition of The State of the World’s Forests is aimed at enhancing our understanding of how forests and their sustainable management contribute to achieving…

This Guiding Note aims to conceptualize and raise awareness on the nexus between gender equality and food loss while offering practical guidance on and tools for integrating gender concerns into the carrying out of food loss case studies and the planning and implementation of reduction strategies and interventions.A gender-sensitive mapping of food losses provides…

The objective of the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services is to provide Governments, the private sector, and civil society with scientifically credible and independent up-to-date assessments of available knowledge to make informed decisions at the local, regional and international levels. Global Assessment Report on biodiversity and…

Everlyne Nairesiae is a Lead author of paper - Land degradation neutrality and tenure security — the SDG’s prospects; A Better World, volume 4 is a Tudor Rose publication in partnership with UNCCD for the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF 2018) and beyond. There is increasing recognition by policymakers, and practitioners worldwide, that secure tenure rights to land are strongly…

Today, over 50% of the world’s population lives in cities and by 2050, urban centres will increase by 80%. It is widely believed that current food systems cannot sustainably meet the growing food demands of cities. We need transformative change to nourish people sustainably, while simultaneously preserving and restoring our ecosystems. Urban residents consume the largest share of food and…

Sub-Saharan Africa has just experienced one of the best decades of growth since the 1960s. Between 2000 and 2012, gross domestic product (GDP) grew more than 4.5 percent a year on average, compared to around 2 percent in the prior 20 years (World Bank various years). In 2012, the region's GDP growth was estimated at 4.7 percent- 5.8 percent if South Africa is excluded (World Bank 2013). About one…