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In 2014 delegates from several countries came together to discuss each country’s needs for achieving their environmental protection goals and addressing more than 25 pressing environmental topics that were listed. It was at this meeting that the Global Environmental Education Partnership (the GEEP) was established. The GEEP is comprised of EE...

Effective national level education legislative/policy mandates with sound financial backing and human resource capacity, etc. will go a long way in the education/EE implementation process.This presentation is a 'research update' on an attempt to evaluate the existing national EE Acts in the world aimed to serve as a baseline for improvement and...

Quality learning can be transformative by providing empowerment, leadership and wise investments in individual and collective lives as well as revamp the local economies of cities to become inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. It can also contribute to transitioning cities towards achieving the remaining sustainable development goals...

Synthesis report of the LCS-RNet 8th Annual Meeting

COP21 marked a significant turning point for global climate policy; all nations in the world are called on to address greenhouse gas emissions down to the maximum 2 degrees threshold (in the effort to limit temperature increase to 1.5 degrees). For this target to be achieved during the next half century, knowledge and wisdom from around the world...

Owing to a high prevalence of rural poverty in Lao PDR, improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers by increasing their productivity is a high priority for the Government. Smallholder farming relies primarily on rainfall, which is prone to shortfalls and occasional droughts during the crop planting season. Reliable irrigation supplies would...

The presentation firstly provided an overview on Satoyama Development Mechanism (SDM), a seed funding scheme to promote the activities of the members of the International Partnership for Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) in line with IPSI objectives, followed by highlights of the achievements by the SDM grant recipients particularly relating to the...

Lack of economic opportunity has been identified as one of the important bottlenecks for achieving development and empowerment as a result of which several financial inclusion projects and programs have been introduced globally in the past several decades. These financial inclusion instruments range between providing cash at hand to invest in...

Risk insurance has been proposed to provide as a means of buffering the financial shocks and to inculcate the habit of risk awareness among the farming communities. As a result, there have been several agricultural insurance programs put in place. However, the progress in the spread of insurance has been sluggish owing to several reasons which...

The presentation is based on the policy brief written for CAPSA (Promoting sustainable agriculture production and products in the Asia and Pacific region) for providing an overview of the sustainable agriculture policies in Asia. The presentation introduces the broad classification of sustainable agricultural policies in Asia and provides a...