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As part of a special initiative by African and Nordic countries, a subregional meeting, involving the countries from West Africa and the Sahel, will be hosted by Norway and Senegal on 3 and 4 March 2020 in Dakar, on the topic of multilateral cooperation to address climate related security and development risks in Africa. The purpose of the meeting is to deepen our collective…

There has been considerable attention on the conventional climate mitigation and adaptation debate in Africa, including the prominent efforts of the African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change in global climate forums. However, there is little understanding of how the African Union (AU) is discussing and responding to the security implications of climate change. A background…

In the 2019 Global Report “Harnessing the power of data for gender equality: Introducing the 2019 EM2030 SDG Gender Index”, we introduce the 2019 SDG Gender Index. The index is the most comprehensive tool available to explore the state of gender equality across 129 countries (covering 95% of the world’s girls and women), 14 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and 51 targets linked to…

The General Assembly, in its resolution 62/195, declared 2010–2020 the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification. At the sixty-ninth session of the Assembly, the Secretary-General presented a report on the activities and special events carried out in the first half of the Decade (A/69/311) by the secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification…

In Niger, since the droughts of the 1970s and 1980s, one of the most successful land restoration strategies has been the regeneration of native trees in farmers’ fields. This has led to a reduction in soil erosion and an improvement in soil fertility (Garvi 2001; Birch et al. 2016). But the focus has often been on the positive effects of trees on annual crop yields, missing the other direct…

In Ghana and elsewhere, FFPOs and forest and farm producers are on the front line of the risks and impacts of land degradation. But as has been illustrated during the Covid-19 crisis, FFPOs also have a key role in supporting or directly providing services that governments sometimes find it challenging to deliver. Supporting FFPOs is thus key to building long-term resilience to risks and shocks…