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This series is brought to you through the Gender and Disaster Resilience Alliance and EPI Global. Both organizations are committed to building awareness about the importance of gender in disaster vulnerability and resilience.Gender and Climate ChangeWednesday, April 10, 2013, at 1 pm ESTA global discussion conducted in English and Spanish Meeting climate challenges in the US and beyond:...
This conference (Foro Internacional Glaciares: el reto de la investigación al servicio de la sociedad en el marco del cambio climático) will bring together scientists, practitioners and representatives from public and governmental institutions to exchange experiences, recent progress and coordinate current and future initiatives in the field of glaciology and high mountains in Peru and the...
A session titled “Networks for Sustainable Monitoring of Global Environmental Change” is being organized by CONDESAN, with support from the Mountain Research Institute. The session looks to use case studies of ongoing monitoring networks in global environmental change, showing how the role of networks has been important in their organization and how their results have been applied to decision...
A workshop held in October 2012 in Lima, Peru, brought together more than 40 scientists and policy makers working in Andean forest ecosystems, one of the richer and most threatened ecosystems of the world. Among the various results of the workshop, there is the formation of the network “Red de Bosques Andinos”. The goals of the network include to stimulate scientific research in Andean forest...
Two complementary on-going research projects aim to understand the likely relationships between climate change, human migration and the (re)emergence of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) in the Andes-Amazon region. The FAPESP project focus on Climate Change and the (re)emergence of both American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) and Bartonellosis (Enfermedad de Carrion), in the South-western...
In the ELLA Programme, we have systematized, analysed and produced development knowledge of evidence and lessons from Latin America in selected themes in environmental management, economic development and governance.We have recently begun publishing knowledge materials about Brazil's ethanol programme. So far, readers can access short briefs on three key issues:Government Intervention to...
This Working Paper considers some of the various drivers behind countries’ climate compatible development strategies and their incentives for engaging on this agenda. It also looks some of the challenges and disincentives to promoting climate compatible development reforms and considers some of the options for overcoming these. The paper provides an introductory overview, based on CDKN’s...
On 8-19 April, the UN Forum on Forest 10 (UNFF) will gather the world community to focus on some of the pressing issues at stake to secure healthy forests worldwide. Jan McAlpine, Director of the UN Forum on Forest Secretariat, shared some of her hopes for this major event and beyond, in an exclusive DESA News interview.Forests cover one third of the Earth’s land mass, performing vital functions...
Sustainable Agriculture and the World Food System | 11-25 August 2013 | Rheinau, SwitzerlandThe ETH Zurich World Food System Center is pleased to announce the call for applications for this year’s summer school on “Sustainable Agriculture and the World Food System”. The two week intensive academic program will be hosted on the Gut Rheinau, one of Switzerlands largest organic farms, and will...
Land reforms in Liberia must learn from and protect communities' customary land and resource rights, urge Grand Cape Mount communities in new reportInstances of conflict between communities and large-scale agricultural concessions have recently brought the issues of land and human rights into focus in Liberia, and throughout Africa. Rural communities in Grand Cape Mount, north-western Liberia,...