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Across the developing world, rural women suffer widespread gender-based discrimination in laws, customs and practices cause severe inequalities in their ability to access, control, own and use land and limit their participation in decision-making at all levels of land governance. This synthesis of submissions resulting from a consultation, to which 19 members, partners and individual experts from…

The Climate vulnerability monitor comprises 34 indicators of the economic, human and ecological effects of climate change and the carbon economy. The Monitor presents a new and original analysis, synthesizing the latest research and scientific information on the global impact – including benefits and losses – of climate change and the carbon economy in economic, environmental and health terms. If…

Over ten thousand species numbering millions of animals migrate every year, and they face some of the highest rates of extinction. Because they are integral to multiple ecosystems, migratory species serve as effective indicators of environmental changes. Migratory species make many contributions to ecosystem structure and function. On land, by moving between areas they inhabit at different times…

At its core , this book is about responding to change: the last few decades have seen the emergence of new aid actors, new aid modalities and perhaps most fundamentally, a new geography of global poverty.In light of these changes this book revisits the contested literature on aid and the uncertain evidence on aid effectiveness, and seeks to lessons and findings that might help us sketch out a…

The OECD is one of the world’s largest and most reliable sources of comparable statistical, economic and social data. It monitors trends, collects data, analyses and forecasts economic development, and investigates evolving patterns in a broad range of public policy areas such as agriculture, development co-operation, education, employment, taxation and trade, science, technology, industry and…

This classification and map of the ecosystems of the entire African continent represents the most current and finest spatial and thematic resolution characterization of African vegetation in its biophysical context available today. Each of these ecosystem types is distributed on the landscape in multiple occurrences, and this patch-level mapping of repeating ecosystem units distinguishes the…