This first volume of The State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources constitutes a major step in building the information and knowledge base required for action towards better conservation and sustainable management of forest genetic resources at the national, regional and international levels.

The report analyses family farms and the role of innovation in ensuring global food security, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. It argues that family farms must be supported to innovate in ways that promote sustainable intensification of production and improvements in rural livelihoods. Innovation is a process through which farmers improve their production and farm management practices.

The goal of this project is to support the effective conservation and sustainable use of forest biodiversity by indigenous peoples of indigenous lands. The project is catalyzing the consolidation of indigenous lands as essential protected areas for the conservation of biodiversity in Brazilian forest ecosystems.

This report assesses key technologies that must be developed in order to convert current, out-dated grids to smart grids, which are essential for a critical area of energy harnessing –using energy efficiently.

This paper provides a summary of a more detailed full Report commissioned by the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Measuring Sustainability. Its purpose is to provide a framework and guide for people engaging with the complex and evolving sustainability literature and the development and application of sustainability assessment tools.

This study highlights the complex trade-offs and dependencies that beset attempts to secure an energy system that performs well across all key objectives. Different countries are of course variously endowed with natural resources and are pursuing economic development from very different starting places.

This report illustrates the science and technology plan for disaster risk reduction from the 12 countries in Asia. It consists of two parts: Science Technology Plan for DRR and Country Report.

This special issue of Participatory Learning and Action explores two important participatory tools that indigenous people and local communities can use to help defend their biocultural heritage against these pressures and threats, and assert their rights over resources and traditional knowledge.

This report outlines the study's methodology and findings on the status and trends relating to TK, genetic resources and farming systems. It reviews the existing policy framework for TK protection, and explores responses based on customary laws and the need to go beyond these. Non-legal tools developed for TK protection are presented, along with key conclusions and proposals for ways forward.

The study underpins the imperative of the market to keep track of TK, from start to end. Treating it as raw material, law and policy approach TK through access rules with a view to guarantee its assured supply for manufacturers of TK-based products and services.