United Nations: 284 books

The objective of this volume is to present in an easily accessible format the richness of the dialogues at Sharm el Sheikh. It presents extended and edited extracts of the main sessions, as well as the reports on the workshops and other events that were submitted by their organizers. In addition, to...

These guidelines shall assist countries to implement the Second GPA in harmony with other relevant national and international commitments. Cognizant of each country’s needs, capacities and constraints, national strategies for PGRFA should identify a national vision, goals and objectives, and the...

Los datos de composición de los alimentos son esenciales para diversos fines en numerosas esferas de actividad. El establecimiento de una red mundial de bases de datos de composición de alimentos compatibles es una tarea importante que requiere un enfoque sistemático tanto para la obtención como...

This report updates the global assessment provided in the first report on The State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, published in 2007. It focuses particularly on changes that have occurred during the period since the first report was published. It serves as a basis...

This report presents strategies that can leverage the potential of food systems to become the engine of inclusive economic development and rural prosperity in low-income countries. It analyses the structural and rural transformations now under way, and examines the opportunities and challenges they...

Le rapport présente une évaluation annuelle du progrès global vers la réalisation des OMD, en indiquant les secteurs où des progrès ont été réalisés, ainsi que ceux qui restent à la traîne. Il indique les efforts requis pour garantir que les OMD soient atteint dici à 2015. progrès continuent....

Women are among the most competent, yet marginalized, unnoticed and underutilized actors in efforts to rebuild war-torn societies. Opportunities for sustainable peacebuilding are lost — and sustainable peace is at risk — when significant stakeholders in a societys future peace and conflict architecture...

New technologies hold the promise of tackling the most pressing needs of human development: vaccines for HIV and malaria, drought-resistant seeds for sub-Saharan Africa, sustainable energy sources for the 2 billion people who have no access to electricity and accessible information technologies for people...

El informe presenta la valoración anual del progreso global hacia la consecución de los ODM, determinando las áreas que han registrado progreso, y aquellas que se quedan por detrás. Además, subraya los sectores en los que son necesarios importantes esfuerzos para conseguir los ODM para 2015. El...

The report shows that some hard-won gains are being eroded by the climate, food and economic crises. But even though the economic crisis took a heavy toll on jobs and incomes around the world, the world is still on track to achieve the MDG target of cutting the rate of extreme poverty in half by 2015,...

In the run-up to Rio+20, the report reveals how the world's most dynamic region can prepare itself, produce and consume differently, build rural resilience and create cities for the future we want.

The World Youth Report focuses on youth and climate change, and is intended to highlight the important role young people play in addressing climate change, and to offer suggestions on how young people might be more effectively integrated as individuals and collective agents of change within the realm...

The State of the African Cities 2010 goes above and beyond the first report, which provided a general overview of housing and urban management issues in Africa. With the subtitle: Governance, inequity and urban land markets, the report uncovers critical urban issues and challenges in African cities,...

The Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Liberty in Todays Diverse World argues that states must actively devise multicultural policies to prevent discrimination on cultural grounds religious, ethnic and linguistic. The Report states that the expansion of cultural freedoms, not suppression, is the...