Thursday, September 19, 2019
The Global Commission on Adaptation seeks to highlight the adaptation challenges confronting poor people, notably poor farmers whose livelihoods are fragile and dependent on the weather and launch a year of action to begin rising to meet this challenge.
In...
Location:
America, United States
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 to Friday, November 30, 2018
The annual Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo), will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 28 to 30 November 2018. Organized by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) in collaboration with United...
Location:
America, United States
Monday, November 26, 2018
The Caribbean region’s already high vulnerability to natural disasters is likely to be exacerbated as the frequency and severity of disasters increase from climate change effects. But for several reasons, countries in the region invest little in building...
Location:
America, United States
Monday, March 19, 2018 to Friday, March 23, 2018
The Land and Poverty conference, taking place in Washinton DC, will present the latest research and practice on the diversity of reforms, interventions, and innovations in the land sector around the world. The 2018 conference theme will be: Land Governance in...
Location:
America, United States
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Following the Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa in 2015, there is consensus around the need for developing countries to raise more domestic resources to finance the Sustainable Development Goals. Developing countries have committed to ‘step...
Location:
United States, America
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs can improve nutrition outcomes for young children, however documentation of the extent of their effectiveness has been limited. Recent evidence from Burkina Faso published by IFPRI and Helen Keller International (HKI...
Location:
America, United States
Tuesday, February 02, 2016
Speaker:
Rob Vos, director, Agricultural Development Economics (ESA), Economic and Social Development Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Discussant:
Daniel Gilligan, deputy division director of Poverty, Health, and...
Location:
America, United States
Friday, September 25, 2015 to Sunday, September 27, 2015
The United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda will be held from 25 to 27 September 2015, in New York and convened as a high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly.
Further information, outcomes and documents from the...
Location:
America, United States
Monday, February 09, 2015 to Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Academics and development specialists explore the relationships between climate change and poverty by examining the impact on poor people’s livelihood and well-being, on the risk for non-poor individuals to fall into poverty, and on the ability of poor people...
Location:
America, United States