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Vulnerability Mapping in Two Tanzanian Water Basins to Improve Water Resources Management

Complex relationships between the climate, population growth, land cover change, and other interactions make decisions on land use planning, water permitting, and donor investments in natural resources management challenging. Decision-making on how and where to make investments is improving in Tanzania due to development partners becoming more proficient in using sophisticated environmental analysis tools such as composite index mapping.
  • Leif Kindberg, John Whiting
Emissions from the livestock sector account for about 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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New Guidance Launched to Help Countries Track Livestock Emissions

92 developing countries included livestock-related emissions as a target for mitigation in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). One of the biggest challenges to achieving mitigation in the sector is tracking emissions, for which national inventories are a key tool.
  • CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security CCAFS
Tomando muestras de suelo en una turbera de palmeras.
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Transformar la evidencia en acción para conservar las turberas en Perú

Perú es el cuarto país con el mayor volumen de turba tropical, cuya mayor parte se encuentra relativamente menos degradada en comparación con otras regiones del mundo. Sin embargo, esto podría cambiar. La creciente presión del desarrollo y la carencia de políticas específicas de protección ponen en riesgo a las turberas de Perú y sus reservas de carbono.
  • Isabela Barriga
Farmers receiving seed at release of new bean variety
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Improved Seed Varieties Address a Changing Climate

Residents of Guatemala’s dry corridor are hungry. In 2018, drought-related crop failures directly affected one in 10 Guatemalans and caused extreme food shortage for upwards of 840,000 people according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Thousands of Guatemalans support and feed their families with subsistence farming and the alarming climate trends of the dry corridor are making each year harder to survive.
  • Agrilinks