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Book (series)Manual / guideA guide to forest–water management 2021Many people worldwide lack adequate access to clean water to meet basic needs, and many important economic activities, such as energy production and agriculture, also require water. Climate change is likely to aggravate water stress. As temperatures rise, ecosystems and the human, plant, and animal communities that depend on them will need more water to maintain their health and to thrive. Forests and trees are integral to the global water cycle and therefore vital for water security – they regulate water quantity, quality, and timing and provide protective functions against (for example) soil and coastal erosion, flooding, and avalanches. Forested watersheds provide 75 percent of our freshwater, delivering water to over half the world’s population. The purpose of A Guide to Forest–Water Management is to improve the global information base on the protective functions of forests for soil and water. It reviews emerging techniques and methodologies, provides guidance and recommendations on how to manage forests for their water ecosystem services, and offers insights into the business and economic cases for managing forests for water ecosystem services. Intact native forests and well-managed planted forests can be a relatively cheap approach to water management while generating multiple co-benefits. Water security is a significant global challenge, but this paper argues that water-centered forests can provide nature-based solutions to ensuring global water resilience.
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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureNutrition in the trade and food security nexus
The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2015–16
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No results found.Food security is a necessary but not sufficient condition for optimal nutrition. While there are frameworks that link trade and food security, food security and nutrition, and trade and nutrition, there is not yet an established framework that links all three. This is in part because of the lack of adequate evidence on the linkages, and also because of series of related challenges. This note looks at the gaps and opportunities to strengthen policy coherence between trade, food security and nutr ition. -