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The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) at its Sixteenth Session (CSD-16) to be held in 2008, will focus on the assessment of the progress made in implementing programs and actions on sustainable development under the thematic cluster of issues covering agriculture and rural development, land, drought, desertification and Africa. This review will be conducted taking into…

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the nature and scope of the linkages between the resource environments, livelihoods and food security of households and individuals. These are analyzed using the livelihood systems framework with the biophysical environment as the entry point. The biophysical and socio-economic environments are investigated as the conditioning and influencing factors that…

The Practical Guide to Designing Integrated Financing Strategies for Combating Desertification is a reference manual of instruments and methodologies used in the formulation of Integrated Financing Strategies. It illustrates the steps to be followed in the development of the strategy, highlighting the main concepts that should be elaborated, and proposes approaches for addressing the central…

The core objective of this book is to better understand the role of foreign policy – the crossovers and interactions between domestic and international politics and policies – in efforts to preserve the environment and natural resources. Underlying this objective is the belief that it is not enough to analyze domestic or international political actors, institutions and processes by themselves. We…

The publication provides practitioners and policy-makers with practical guidance on the mainstreaming of gender considerations in sustainable land management (SLM). It argues that such approaches will not only provide women with a platform to fully engage in development, but will also enhance the delivery of impacts and effectiveness of our interventions.

This report seeks to perform a comparative analysis of compliance mechanisms under selected multilateral environment agreements (MEAs). Nineteen MEAs were selected on the basis of their being global in scope, widely ratified and representative of treaty arrangements across environmental management sectors. After going through the major global compliance mechanisms this report draw an analysis on…