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Book (stand-alone)Guideline on the Integration of Sand and Dust Storm Management into Key Policy Areas 2024
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No results found.The Guideline aims to raise awareness on development challenges related to sand and dust storm (SDS) risk, vulnerability, and exposure that are often not fully appreciated or considered by policy makers. In addition to greater political attention, it underscrores the need for assessments and actionable data to address SDS hazards more effectively. The guideline is informed by scientific, technical, and evidence-based knowledge resources that have been produced by the UNCCD, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and members of the United Nations Coalition on Combatting Sand and Dust Storms as well as other partners and experts from around the world. The Guideline is voluntary and can be used by regonal, national, and sub-national authorities and actors responsible for designing and implementing SDS-related initiatives in key policy areas (e.g., agriculture, human health, infrastructure). It builds upon the UNCCD Policy Advocacy Framework for Sand and Dust storms which outlines the principles and enabling environment to prevent and reduce SDS sources and their socioeconomic impacts while improving productivity and resilience. -
Book (stand-alone)Guidelines for insurance value and risk assessment of small fishing vessels 2025These Guidelines for insurance value and risk assessment of small fishing vessels have been developed to facilitate the provision of insurance services to the small‑scale fisheries sector worldwide. These guidelines complement the 2015 Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small‑Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines).The purpose of these guidelines is to enable the insurance industry to develop tailored products for small-scale fishers and to support collaboration and sharing of information among insurance providers. The guidelines focus on motorized small fishing vessels, defined as those up to 12 metres in length and typically using outboard motors or inboard engines.The document describes the existing methods for value and risk assessment of small fishing vessels. It provides recommended value and risk assessment methods for small fishing vessels, engines and onboard equipment. The guidelines recommend a standardized, rule-based fast-track assessment process, suited for low-risk vessels which represent most small fishing vessels. The document discusses how digital technologies and local knowledge can accelerate insurance application and review processes. It provides checklists, self-declaration forms, guidance on depreciation and methods for value assessment of small fishing vessels. Practical guidance is given to insurers, government institutions and other stakeholders to facilitate implementation of the guidelines and improve insurance access for small-scale fishers.
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Book (stand-alone)Rinderpest and its eradication 2022
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No results found.This book tells the story of rinderpest and its eradication. The focus is on the international coordination that came together after the Second World War in the confident belief that, with vaccines available, the eradication of rinderpest was a practical possibility. In both Africa and South Asia, beginning in the 1960s, there was an initial dramatic success through the coordinated vaccination of cattle across the continents. Unfortunately, follow-up measures could not prevent the return of epidemic rinderpest, albeit to a lesser extent. Chastened by failure, the international community refocused with renewed energy to achieve eradication. The vaccination programmes broadened to reflect a multidisciplinary approach to disease eradication. FAO and the OIE, together with international aid agencies, coordinated policy with the nation states and guided implementation of the era¬dication programmes until success was achieved.
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