Reports
This report on Indigenous Peoples (IP) draws on the main emerging lessons from its caseload over 22 years. The study highlights areas where continued improvements can enhance the World Bank’s and its member countries’ approach to ensuring that Indigenous Peoples fully benefit from Bank projects. Nineteen Panel cases have involved Indigenous Peoples’ issues.
Action Plan for Mainstreaming Biodiversity across Agricultural Sectors in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 2022–2023
2023
Author(s): Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
This report deals in managing the natural resources sustainably and preserving biodiversity in a changing climate to developed the Regional Action plan for biodiversity mainstreaming across agricultural sectors and also aims at addressing the priority regional challenges.
Comprehensive Analysis of the Disaster Risk Reduction System for the Agriculture Sector in the Republic of Moldova
2023
Author(s): Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
This report concludes by providing recommendations for capacity building interventions to strengthen the current system to reduce the adverse impacts of natural hazards, in particular, floods, landslides and droughts, and climate change on agriculture in the Republic of Moldova.
WIPO Technical Study on Disclosure Requirements in Patent Systems Related to Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge
2004
Author(s): WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore
The study concerns disclosure requirements in patent law that are relevant to genetic resources (GR) and traditional knowledge (TK) that are used in inventions for which patent protection is claimed.
Connections that Matter: How Does the Quality of Governance Institutions Help Protect Our Ocean?
2023
Author(s): UNDP
The study highlights a number of examples, including how governance can regulation, management and enforcement tends to improve marine park conservation whereas lack of enforcement can lead to ‘paper parks’.
A Framework for Gender-responsive Livestock Development: Contributing to a World Free from Hunger, Malnutrition, Poverty and Inequality
2023
Author(s): Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, International Livestock Research Institute, World Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development,
This report provides an overarching framework to support the formulation of action plans and guidance documents contributing to gender equality and women’s empowerment through livestock development.
Terminal Evaluation of the Project "Enhancing Climate Change Resilience in the Benguela Current Fisheries System"
2023
Author(s): Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The report highlighted the outcome of the project Enhancing Climate Change Resilience in the Benguela Current Fisheries System.
Guide on Digital Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services: Use of Smartphone Applications by Smallholder Farmers
2023
Author(s): Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
This guide provides a set of tools to enhance their digital skills in terms of basic knowledge and skills on using digital tools, methods of access to digital AEAS, methods of access to e-commerce, and capacity building.
Global Assessment of Soil Carbon in Grasslands
2023
Author(s): Dondini M, Martin M, De Camillis C, Uwizeye A, Soussana JF, Robinson T, Steinfeld H
The present study provides a spatially explicit report on the state of grassland soils and can be used as a baseline for future work to explore the impacts of livestock management on soil carbon at regional, country and farm levels.
Biodiversity in Action
2023
Author(s): Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The mutually reinforcing and complex nature of climate change and biodiversity loss requires the consideration of a variety of outcomes and the application of coordinated solutions, including nature-based solutions, that deliver the highest benefits and the fewest trade-offs, effectively mainstreaming them together.