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Building climate-resilient dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral production systems
With climate change impacts already felt in the world’s drylands, there is an urgent need for action, at various scales and initiated by different stakeholders, to ensure the sustainability of food production and livelihoods in these regions in the coming decades. There is also the need to rapidly establish baselines, assess and start monitoring progress on sustainability, emerging as result of the action taken. To aid in this effort, this paper provides a short list of expected transformations (under each of the three sustainability pillars) for guiding the planning and implementation of policy, governance and practice-level actions. Gender and indigenous people’s rights and knowledge w...
Catalysing climate solutions
Due to the urgent need to protect communities, ecosystems, and economies from the impacts of a changing climate, adaptation is becoming increasingly relevant. Climate change is already a significant stressor on most global and local value chains and threatens food security. This makes timely implementation of sustainable adaptation actions that catalyse agrifood system resilience indispensable for working towards better nutrition, better environments and better production, leaving no one behind. Recognizing the important role adaptation plays for agrifood systems, and its prominence in the Paris Agreement, the paper presents and reflects on FAO’s repertoire of different adaptation actions ...
Valuing, restoring and managing “presumed drylands”: Cerrado, Miombo–Mopane woodlands and the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau
The study "Valuing, restoring and managing presumed drylands: Cerrado, Miombo–Mopane woodlands and the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau" confirms the existence of 1 075 million hectares of presumed drylands that are under threat from unsustainable use and climate change. This is in addition to the 6.1 billion hectares of official drylands that already cover 41 percent of the planet’s land surface and are home to 2 billion people. All these areas contain high levels of biodiversity and are home to a large number of people reliant on agriculture to sustain their livelihoods, this is why it's so important to research, analyse and work to protect them. The report contains concrete information on the environmental and ecological value of these dryland areas, and key recommendations for actions to limit land degradation, sustain biodiversity and mitigate climate change.
Forests for a better world
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of FAO’s Committee on Forestry, this edition of Unasylva showcases ways in which forests are delivering the "four betters" and underscores how forests are crucial for resilient and sustainable agrifood systems in a changing climate. As FAO’s longest running periodical, Unasylva focuses on issues and themes relevant to forestry and forest industries and aims to bring globally significant developments in forestry to policy-makers, forest managers, technicians, researchers, students and teachers around the globe.
Créer des forêts et des systémes de production agrosylvopastoraux résilients au climat en zones arides
Les efforts de transformation visant les forêts arides et les systèmes agrosylvopastoraux sont le plus souvent centrés sur des aspects techniques de la gestion des systèmes. Ils ciblent généralement la gestion des pâturages, la restauration ou l'ajout d'arbres et la gestion de la matière organique, de l'eau et de la fertilité des sols. Les impacts primaires anticipés et les effets secondaires peuvent varier selon le contexte dans les terres arides et le but et l'intention des acteurs intervenant. Cependant, les impacts escomptés de la transformation ciblent souvent des aspects généraux couvrant la sécurité alimentaire, la réduction de la pauvreté et l'amélioration de la ges...
Agile Data-Oriented Research Tools to Support Smallholder Farm System Transformation
Smallholder farming systems contribute a substantial quantity of the food consumed in many lower and middle-income countries and contribute to the national and local economies. Despite the importance of smallholder farming, a transformation is needed in order to deliver food security and decent incomes for the farmers themselves and at the national level. This transformation must also be sustainable in terms of environmental impacts and social equity in order to be successful in the long term. The pressures of population growth, climate change, and land fragmentation compound the problem. Addressing these overlapping issues is a big challenge. One obstacle is the lack of good quality granula...
Manejo sostenible y restauración del bosque de la costa norte del Perú
En este informe se presenta la encuesta de línea de base realizada para la evaluación de impacto del proyecto Gestión Sostenible y Restauración del Bosque Seco en la costa norte del Perú, financiado por el Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial. El objetivo principal de este proyecto es la recuperación y gestión sostenible de los bosques secos en la costa norte peruana, a través de actividades que aumenten los ingresos de los hogares y mejoren sus medios de vida. De este modo, se pretende fortalecer la resiliencia de las comunidades frente a los efectos del cambio climático, generando simultáneamente beneficios medioambientales. Asimismo, el proyecto tiene previsto analizar el impacto de las actividades implementadas para evaluar su efectividad, en alineación con la teoría de cambio. En suma, se presenta un análisis de los datos recogidos en la línea base de la evaluación de impacto, información que puede utilizarse para retroalimentar y adaptar el diseño de las actividades al contexto específico.
Creación de bosques y sistemas de producción agrosilvopastorales resilientes en las tierras áridas
Los esfuerzos de transformación de los bosques de tierras secas y los sistemas agrosilvopastoriles se centran con mayor frecuencia en los diferentes aspectos técnicos de la gestión de sistemas. Normalmente se dirigen a aspectos como el manejo del pastoreo, la restauración o adición de árboles y el manejo de la materia orgánica, el agua y la fertilidad del suelo. Los impactos primarios anticipados y los efectos secundarios pueden variar con el contexto de las tierras secas y con el propósito e intención de los actores intervinientes. Sin embargo, los impactos previstos de la transformación a menudo se dirigen a aspectos amplios que abarcan la seguridad alimentaria y la reducción de...
Les forêts pour un monde meilleur
Pour coïncider avec le 50e anniversaire du Comité des forêts de la FAO, cette édition d'Unasylva présente la manière dont les forêts apportent les « quatre meilleurs » et souligne à quel point ils sont cruciaux pour les systèmes agroalimentaires résilients et durables, dans un contexte de changement climatique. En tant que périodique plus ancien de la FAO, Unasylva se concentre sur des questions et des thèmes pertinents pour la foresterie et les industries forestières et vise à présenter les développements forestiers d'importance mondiale aux décideurs politiques, aux gestionnaires forestiers, aux techniciens, aux chercheurs, aux étudiants et aux enseignants du monde entier.
