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Housed within the Carbon Finance Unit of the World Bank, the BioCarbon Fund (BioCF) is a public private initiative mobilizing resources for pioneering projects that sequester or conserve carbon in forest- and agro-ecosystems, mitigating climate change and improving local livelihoods. The overall goal of the Fund is to demonstrate that land-base activities can generate high-quality emission...
The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) has released Ramsar Technical Report No. 6, titled "Healthy wetlands, healthy people: a review of wetlands and human health interactions." The report was published jointly with the World Health Organization (WHO).
The report focuses on providing advice to wetland managers and decision...
The majority of the mountains and Himalayan population depend upon agricultural and forest based natural resources for their livelihoods (Singh et al., 1994; Sundriyal et al., 1994) The traditional farming system in the Himalaya is a mixture of crop and animal husbandry, which provides fodder, firewood, food and medicine for human and timber for house construction (Upreti et al., 2001)....
Do you have a creative idea on how video can be used to capture experiences in the field? Do you want to see your project documented from a grassroots perspective? Send us your proposals.
Thanks to the generosity of Cisco, IFAD has obtained a number of flipcams (a video camera the size of a mobile phone). The broadcast unit invites proposals for creative ways to visually document the...
We are pleased to inform you that the 2012 Asia-Pacific Leadership Program on Environment for Sustainable Development will be held from 4th June to 8th June in Shanghai, China. The theme of this year is Green Economy and Sustainable Development. If you have any friends who may have interests in this program, please help us to send the...
MRD is pleased to announce the publication of a Supplement Issue containing keynote papers, a synthesis paper, and policy papers that emerged from the 2010 “Global Change and the World’s Mountains” conference, which took place in Perth, Scotland, from 26–30 September. The peer-reviewed keynote papers address issues ranging from mountains as a global common good to mountain communities’...
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This five-day course explores the challenges of employment creation in the Middle East and North Africa. It examines both demand and supply-side factors and introduces participants to practical policy prescriptions gathered from other country experiences from...
Today, a multitude of agents plays a significant role in earth system governance, ranging from traditional state actors to international organizations, civil society organizations, science networks, city coalitions, or business associations. At the same time, the overall governance architecture, from local to global levels, is becoming more complex as a consequence of ever increasing needs for...
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is a regional knowledge development and learning centre serving the eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas (HKH) – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. Mountains are one of the global...
Grand Challenges Canada has announced a Request for proposals for investigators in low and middle income countries who are within 10 years after their latest degree (Young innovators) .
With this proposal, Grand Challenges Canada is seeking emerging innovators (within 10 years of graduation from a Masters level or PhD) from developing countries. We are looking for bold ideas with big...
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