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OFID Quarterly is OFID's flagship publication. Published four times a year, the magazine contains news stories about OFID projects and other outreach activities, as well as interviews with development thought leaders in both the public and private sectors. It also includes articles on topical development issues, together with coverage of key development conferences and reports.

Each issue of Our Planet concentrates on one specific theme, tying into international conferences (the 10th anniversary of the Basel Convention), meetings (UNFCCC COP-15), events (World Environment Day), or dealing with issues of our time (Water or Climate Change). Our Planet contains articles by leaders of United Nations organizations, national governments, non-governmental organizations,…

The UNEP magazine for youth in English, French, Spanish language. Did You Know Every dollar spent restoring degraded forests can result in $30 in economic benefits. ‘Forests precede civilization,’ it is said, ‘deserts follow’. It has been so since humanity first settled down from a nomadic life. More than 3,000 years ago, Gilgamesh – the world’s first ever written story …

The ITTO Tropical Forest Update is published quarterly in English, French and Spanish. ITTO is an intergovernmental organization promoting the conservation and sustainable management, use and trade of tropical forest resources. Its members represent about 80% of the world's tropical forests and 90% of the global tropical timber trade.

Global: the international briefing is a new, editorially independent magazine commissioned by the Commonwealth Secretariat, and launched at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago in 2009. Balancing the expertise of global leaders, the insights of the world’s foremost writers and thinkers and the real life experiences of ‘ordinary’ citizens, Global aims to…

Often barren natural rangelands are directly utilized for pastoral livestock farming, which is by nature mobile (transhumance). This activity is on the rise in sub-Saharan Africa, providing a living for a great number of herders, generating marketable animal products, while also supporting pastoral-oriented societies. Pastoral livestock farming prevails especially in dry tropical regions…