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It is well known that forest resources contribute to the livelihoods of many rural people throughout the world. An estimated 1.2 billion people rely on forests for some part of their livelihoods, while 350 million people are highly forest dependent and 60 million completely depend on forests for their livelihoods.
It is increasingly argued that forests can be a resource for...
In October 2008 CTA organised an international seminar on the implications of climate change for sustainable agricultural production systems in ACP countries. It brought together about 200 participants from the ACP region, EU national institutions and regional and international organisations. The CTA Seminar identified ways of improving access to climate change information in ACP countries....
Women play a critical role in agriculture throughout the world, producing, processing and providing the food we eat. Rural women are responsible for over half of the world's food production, producing around 70 percent of the food in most developing countries. Yet, despite their contribution to global food security, women farmers are frequently underestimated and overlooked in development...
About three quarters of the world’s poor live in rural areas. Among those, women constitute a particularly vulnerable, yet crucially important group for social and economic development. Investing in rural women is thus not only a moral imperative; it can also be a promising strategy to effectively fight poverty and hunger.
A fundamental characteristic of the NBSAPs should be the active involvement of all social groups in their elaboration. However, in order to ensure genuine representation, it is necessary to recognise that there is diversity within social groups due to their sex, age, ethnic group, income, occupations and civil status, among others.
Sustainable agriculture is an effective poverty reduction strategy when matched with rural development strategies to address the economic, social and political disadvantages of the poor. It can increase income and food supply at the household level and provide cheaper food, increased employment opportunities and higher wages, which contribute to broader poverty reduction.
For many years there has been the assumption that the negative impacts of climate change and the efforts to mitigate them have similar effects on both women and men. However, the world has progressively recognized that women and men experience climate change differently, and that gender inequalities worsen women's coping capacity. It has also been acknowledged that women are important actors...
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...
Adaptation to climate change is therefore no longer a secondary and long-term response option only to be used as a last resort. It is now prevalent and imperative, and for those communities already vulnerable to the impacts of present day climate hazards, an urgent imperative.
Successful adaptation must be accomplished through actions that target and reduce the vulnerabilities...
In October 2008 CTA organized an international seminar on the implications of climate change for sustainable agricultural production systems in ACP countries. It brought together about 200 participants from the ACP region, EU national institutions and regional and international organizations. The CTA Seminar identified ways of improving access to climate change information in ACP countries....
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