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AfDB serves as a key CIF partner and implementing agency, along with its fellow Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). The AfDB’s Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department (ONEC) produces this report every year as part of its contributions at AfDB to support Africa’s move toward climate-resilient and low-carbon development. The report highlights AfDB’s work to expand Africa’s access to…

World Development Indicators will report on progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals, as it did with the Millennium Development Goals. The Sustainable Development Goals cover a broader range of issues, and this edition expands coverage in the World view section. For each of the 17 goals, key indicators have been selected to identify important trends and challenges and elicit…

These WDI Highlights are drawn from World Development Indicators (WDI) 2016 - the World Bank’s compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development and the quality of people’s lives. The 2016 edition of World Development Indicators offers a condensed presentation of the principal indicators, arranged in their traditional sections, along with regional and topical…

California is facing yet another year of unprecedented, record-breaking drought. At this time of need, US agencies have turned to Australia to identify the strategies that urban water utilities and water agencies adopted to survive its worst drought in recorded history, the Millennium Drought, which lasted from 1997 until it officially ended in 2012. Overall, Australia…

The world faces a great balancing act. How will the world adequately feed nearly 10 billion people by 2050 in a manner that advances economic development and reduces pressure on the environment, while adapting to climate change? This requires balancing three needs. First, the world needs to close a roughly 70 percent gap between the crop calories available in 2006 and those needed by 2050 (the …

Natural and human disasters had major impacts on food security. Continued slow economic growth, particularly in China and Russia, combined with low oil prices reduced food security in Central Asia and the Arab region, and have slowed growth throughout Asia and Latin America. The expanding conflict in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen led to unprecedented numbers of displaced persons and refugees, with…