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Book (stand-alone)Adaptation to Climate-Change in Semi-Arid Environments - Experience and Lessons from Mozambique 2012
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No results found.Southern Africa is one of the regions highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Mozambique is one of the least developing countries in the region experiencing this devastating effect on the agricultural livelihood of its rural population. Climate change will have a significant impact on the Limpopo River Basin and its tributaries which flow across the vast areas of the semi-arid plateau of the southern provinces of Mozambique where the United Nations Joint Programme (UNJP) on Environme ntal Mainstreaming and Adaptation to Climate Change is operating. This publication documents the experiences, successes and challenges being faced in implementing the adaptation interventions in one of the remote districts where very few development agencies are operating. It identifies, at farm and community level, adaptive interventions that have been tested and applied and which have shown positive impact on productivity, broadened livelihoods basis, and improved resilience to climate change in the face of current and future climate-related stresses. -
Policy briefConsumption-based water management 2023
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No results found.Water scarcity and rising competition for water are facts of life in semi-arid and arid parts of South and West Asia and are emerging, often in localized hotspots, in South-East Asian countries with high but seasonal rainfall. The main drivers of rising water scarcity are population growth, consequent food demand, associated economic development and changing dietary preferences. In addition, water development in Asia has overlooked the importance of environmental flows to sustain aquatic ecosystems and the ecosystem services that many water users rely upon for their livelihoods. Comparatively speaking, irrigation is the largest water use that needs to be balanced with environmental water needs. The purpose of this brief is to provide policy-makers and experts with an understanding of consumption-based water management (CBWM) so that they can consider whether it may – or may not – be possible to apply it in irrigation- dependent parts of Asia that are currently experiencing, or are expected to experience, overextraction of water resources, in particular groundwater. -
BookletGreater Horn of Africa and Yemen | Desert locust crisis appeal, January 2020–December 2021
Revised appeal for sustaining control efforts and protecting livelihoods (six-month extension)
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No results found.A desert locust upsurge is still underway in the Greater Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, while the situation has returned to normal in Southwest Asia and the potential spread to West Africa was stopped in July 2020, thanks to massive control operations from May to July 2020 in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. As anticipated, although substantial control operations are underway, the battle to control the desert locust is not yet over. In response, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has revised its previously published desert locust crisis appeal, providing an update and extension of FAO's funding requirements for rapid response and sustained action in the Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen to address the ongoing desert locust crisis. This extended Appeal will therefore focus on extended surveillance and control operations in Ethiopia and Somalia, with continued surveillance and readiness to conduct control operations in Yemen.
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