The Challenge of Biodiversity in Farming Practices as a Research Topic
by Rob D. van den Berg
Journal: Agricultural Research
Publisher: Springer India
Issn: 2249-720X
Saving the world's plant species has been a concern ever since botanical gardens were…
Building a Line of Defense against Climate Change: From reactive coping to adaptive capacity in China's irrigated agricultural development
by Bjorn Conrad, Qun Li
Climate change threatens to undermine decades of development achievements in China's Huang-Huai-Hai…
El Salvador began receiving GEF support in 1994 with investments around $11.4 million and $22.7 million in co-financing (data as of end of 2010). Eleven national projects have been funded by the GEF that include six projects in biodiversity, three in climate change, one in POPs, and one…
Energy efficiency remains a promising but elusive means for combining local economic benefits with greenhouse gas reductions. It is a keystone of plans to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees, but many apparently profitable opportunities for energy efficiency remain ungrasped, due to…
The Global Environment Facility Evaluation Office, in cooperation with the GEF Secretariat and the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group, participated at two exciting side events at COP 17 in Durban, South Africa.
Evaluations provide lessons learned from the first generation of adaptation interventions, from the development of National Adaptation Plans for Action (NAPA) to innovative approaches to specific adaptation problems. This event will present these lessons from the portfolios of the GEF, the…
In 2011, the Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) conducted two country portfolio studies in El Salvador and Jamaica. Both studies were performed in collaboration with parallel evaluations by the United Nations Development Programme's Evaluation Office. Country portfolio…