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This booklet aims to introduce the reader to the importance of preserving our soil resources by attending to the reciprocal relationship between soils and pulses. The ecosystem services provided by soil are presented together with the role of pulses in improving soil health, adapting to and mitigating climate change, and ultimately contributing to food security and nutrition. The book also…

Investment in agriculture is essential to reducing food insecurity and poverty. Since 2008, demand for agricultural land in developing countries has increased sharply. Land is considered to be an attractive asset. In social terms, investments in land have produced mixed results. Such investments have the potential to benefit local communities by giving small farmers …

This technical guide on Governing Tenure Rights to Commons provides strategic guidance and suggested practices for proactively implementing the standards and recommendations of the Guidelines, with the aim of recognizing and protecting tenure rights to commons and community-based governance structures. The guide was prepared by the Institute for Advanced …

While academics have largely shifted their focus from ‘women in development’ to addressing women and men as part of broader ‘gendered’ social relations, this shift is yet to be fully translated into development practice. This requires development practitioners to be sensitive to local contexts and to the various inequalities they contain with regards to land rights and land use …

This new UNEP Frontiers report advances this work, signalling environmental issues and solutions for effective and timely responses. Some issues may emerge as a result of new scientific findings and understanding of interactions between environmental, social and economic systems; others may be persistent issues for which new approaches and technologies have emerged to equip decision-makers…

Mortality and burden of disease from unhealthy environments: In 2016, 13.7 million people died as a result of living or working in an unhealthy environment, representing 24% of all deaths. When accounting for both death and disability, the fraction of the global burden of disease due to the environment is 23%. In children under five years, up to 28% of all deaths could be prevented, if…