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BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library. As the open access movement grows and prospers, more and more repository servers come into being which use the "Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting" (OAI-PMH) for providing their contents. BASE collects,…

Big Facts is a resource of the most up-to-date and robust facts relevant to the nexus of climate change, agriculture and food security. It is intended to provide a credible and reliable platform for fact checking amid the range of claims that appear in reports, advocacy materials and other sources. Full sources are supplied for all facts and figures and all content has gone through a process of…

Over 60 experts from organizations, institutions, governments and the private sector, concerned with the implementation of SDG 15 and its target 15.3, aiming at halting and reversing land degradation trends, participated in the meeting (see list of participants below). Opening remarks by the co-organizers offered an overview and framed the discussion for the two-day meeting. A presentation by the…

Globally, women’s earnings are 24 percent less than men’s. Less than 40 percent of countries provide girls and boys with equal access to education. Many rural women spend up to four hours a day collecting fuel for household use, sometimes travelling 5 to 10 kilometres a day.n developing countries in Africa, and Asia and the Pacific, women typically work 12 to 13 hours per week more…

The region is one of the world’s climate change hotspots. Increasingly unpredictable weather patterns, more frequent droughts and floods and land degradation threaten the livelihoods of a population in which the majorrelies on agriculture for survival. Environmental shocks, insecurity, chronic hunger and malnutrition have a dangerously symbiotic relationship in the Sahel. A spike in armed…

Over 60 experts from organizations, institutions, governments and the private sector, concerned with the implementation of SDG 15 and its target 15.3, aiming at halting and reversing land degradation trends, participated in the meeting (see list of participants below). Opening remarks by the co-organizers offered an overview and framed the discussion for the two-day meeting. A presentation by the…