Agriculture

By Fred Snijders, Senior Natural Resources Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Food security can’t wait and neither can decisive action on climate change FAO reported in its publication “State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015” last June that the number of hungry people has dropped to 12.9%. This […]

Evolving international sustainability norms demand greater environmental and social responsibility from business across global commodity chains – from countries of origin to countries of consumption. Conventional commandand-control regulation has had limited success in addressing negative environmental and social impacts. As a result, advocacy groups and NGOs have championed a diversity of market-based and multi-stakeholder governance […]

Climate Smart Agricultural Landscapes from EcoAgriculture Partners

Written by Gabrielle Kissinger (Consultant, UNEP) with input from Ivo Mulder (REDD+ Economics Advisor, UNEP) and Johan Kieft (Green Economy Advisor, UNORCID) UN-REDD Programme This brief corresponds to the session: ‘Changing agricultural fiscal policies to stimulate sustainable economic growth, food production, and reduced deforestation‘ happening at the Global Landscapes Forum, 11.30 – 13.00, Sunday, 6 December, […]

Originally posted on CGIAR WLE’s Thrive blog. By Sophie Theis, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, and Chiara Kovarik. This post is part of the “Science on the Pulse” series – a two-part quarterly review on the latest literature on ecosystem services and on gender. What are we actually talking about when we refer to women’s land rights? […]

This UN-REDD Info Brief assesses whether and how soft commodity risk policies by banks and investors could potentially benefit UN-REDD countries to achieve REDD+ results based on an analysis of risk policies from a range of financial institutions. This brief has been produced in parallel with a report by UNEP (2015) titled ‘Bank and Investor […]