he booklet highlights success stories from FAO’s work with the GEF over the past two decades in addressing the critical nexus between agriculture and the environment.
The review identifies a basic level for a common understanding of the problems and gaps in food security and nutrition, thereby facilitating the coordination of priority actions needed to eradicate hunger by 2030.
The Land Degradation Monitoring Project is a Global Environment Facility (GEF)-funded project that provides guidance on robust methods and a toolbox for assessing, monitoring status, and estimating trends in land degradation using remote sensing technology.
The GEF has quickly responded to decisions of UNCCD COP12 in Ankara (2015) and started to support Land Degradation Neutrality target setting and implementation through several projects in GEF-6, which are summarized in this brochure.
The Central Asia Hydrometeorology Modernization Project is helping countries in the region adapt to disaster and climate risk by bolstering their weather forecasting and early warning efforts.
Extreme weather is rolling back development gains in Central Asia. Modernizing weather services can reduce climate & disaster risk. Learn more about the World Bank’s efforts to reduce climate & disaster risk in Central Asia.
For 26 years the GEF demonstrated through its portfolio the crucial importance of all types of forest in providing a range of important environmental services, in particular to sustain biodiversity, to face the challenges of climate change and land degradation, and at the same time offering livelihood options for many
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WFP is the partner of choice for the Government in leading the process of coordination and policy development for the national school feeding programme.
Climate change is the defining challenge of our time, yet it is still accelerating faster than our efforts to address it. Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide are higher than they have been for 800,000 years, and they are increasing. So, too, are the catastrophic effects of our warming planet –
