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The UNESCO publication "Tomorrow Today" helps to nurture an international spirit of knowledge exchange for increasing collective intelligence to advance a holistic, interdisciplinary and quality education. It creates a global strategic landscape that private and public policymakers can use to improve their decision making and understanding. The publication helps to nurture an international spirit…

To integrate the principles, values and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning and to enhance the profi le of education and learning in sustainable development, the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) was launched in 2005. The vision of the DESD is to create a world in which everyone has the opportunity to benefi t from education and…

Mauritania is one of the Sahelian countries most severely affected by the repeated periods of drought that have been occurring since the end of the 1960s. Desertification control has always been a national priority and a central concern of successive governments, taking the practical form of various development plans and programmes over the past four decades. …

In general, interfaces between the Earth’s larger material reservoirs (i.e., the land, atmosphere, ocean, and sediments) are important in the control of the biogeochemical dynamics and cycling of the major bio-essential elements, including carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), sulfur (S), and silicon (Si), found in organic matter and the inorganic skeletons, shells, and tests of benthic and…

The incipient global bioenergy boom is giving rise to vigorous and strongly polarized debate. Different underlying aims, such as reducing dependence on imported oil and gas or using biofuels to reduce the CO2 emissions of road traffic, predominate in different quarters and shape the political agenda. Supporters of bioenergy argue that, at a time of sharply increasing demand for…

This report examines the role of European Union (EU) member States, both collectively and individually, in the current reported wave of foreign land investment in Africa that has led to the current use of the term ‘land grabbing’.It discusses whether this role is consistent with the EU’s commitment to advance agriculture in Africa in order to help achieve the Millennium Development…