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We live in a world of ecosystems – and our existence would not be possible without the life-supporting services they provide. Properly-functioning ecosystems in turn are fundamentally related to water security. This report, although brief in content, is meant to serve as food for thought about the linkages and interactions between human survival and well-being, and about the ecosystem...
The mountain areas of Latin America and the Caribbean occupy a substantial proportion of the Region and include significant segments of the population, including indigenous and cultural groups whose stability depends on the rational management of natural resources. The conservation of these areas has an impact on the quality of local, national and global environments and, in many cases, on the...
The paper aims to chart aspects of the political, economic and social contexts in which scaling up of girls' education will take place in Commonwealth countries in Africa and considers what the implications of these contexts are for projects and programmes.
The first section of the paper develops a scorecard to map Commonwealth countries in Africa with regard to the policy and social...
This manual, produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Nepal, encapsulates the experiences and lessons learned from a recent project on "Incorporating the Needs and Roles of Women in Water and Energy Management in Rural Areas in South Asia - Capacity Building of Women in Rural Areas of the Himalayas...
This publication is part of a continuous and systematic analysis by IFAD of the roots and prevalence of rural poverty in the Latin American and Caribbean region. Initial analysis of regional data started in 1999 as part of the process of gathering the basic elements for an IFAD-sponsored worldwide poverty analysis.
Since then, several pervasive changes have occurred in the...
For climate politics, 2009 will be a year setting the switches for our future course. The prelude was given by the UN climate summit, which took place in Poznan shortly before the end of last year. There, the international "climate train" reached its minimum goals, creating the formal preconditions for the achievement of an ambitious post-2012 global deal twelve months later in Copenhagen. At...
The economic recovery packages put forward by many countries amount in total to a large amount of money, some of which may have a beneficial impact on greening the global economy. But many packages are woefully small, few contain adequate detail for full assessment and some indeed are actually counterproductive if the aim is to move rapidly to a low carbon economy in the face of the climate...
The Southeast Asian uplands provide livelihood opportunities for more than 100 million people. Many of these are poor smallholder farmers who are economically, socially and politically marginalised, suffer from tenure insecurity and have few options other than drawing on the uplands' natural resources to sustain their living. Forest conversion, inappropriate land use practices and timber...
Adaptive management has become increasingly common where natural resource managers face complex and uncertain conditions. The collaboration required among managers and others to do adaptive management, however, is not always easy to achieve. The authors describe efforts to work with villagers and government officials in Malinau, East Kalimantan Indonesia, where a weak, uncertain institutional...
The severe tensions between conservation and development are illustrated by events in Malinau Dstrict (Kalimantan, Indonesia). Conservationists decry proposed plans for logging and conversion of pristine tropical forest to oil palm (Elaeis guineensis). Although the local government is willing to declare the district a “conservation district,” at the same time, it shows interest in...
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