Search
Now showing items 71-80 of 154
The Cost of the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity: Five African Countries
(2018)
Women represent over half of the agricultural labour force in Sub-Saharan Africa. Their substantive contribution to agriculture and their vital role in ensuring family food security have been widely documented. However, ...
Jordan Country Study on Biological Diversity: Mammals of Jordan
(2000)
This work is an update for the mammals of Jordan, with emphasis on their distribution, ecology and conservation.
Factors Driving the Gender Gap in Agricultural Activity: Malawi
(2018)
This study confirms the presence of a gender gap in agricultural productivity in rural Malawi. Agriculture comprises 30% of Malawi's gross domestic product. Closing the gender gap in Malawi could result in an increase of ...
Factors Driving the Gender Gap in Agricultural Activity: Tanzania
(2018)
Agriculture employs 67% of Tanzania's workers and accounts for about 23% of the country's gross domestic product. An elimination of the gender gap in agricultural productivity in Tanzania would increase agricultural ...
Factors Driving the Gender Gap in Agricultural Activity: Uganda
(2018)
This study identifies policy proposals - consistent with Uganda's Second National Development Plan - to confront gender stereotypes and address women's time-poverty and lack of assets, the lack of attention to gender-responsive ...
Poverty-Environment Initiative Africa: Achievements and Lessons Learned 2005–2018
(2019)
This report reviews the Initiative’s successes and failures, and its responses to these. In so doing, it documents how robust and integrated evidence—along with changes in policy, budgeting, investment and monitoring ...
Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI) Africa: Achievements and Lessons Learned 2005–2018 - Summary
(2019)
This Summary report reviews the Initiative’s successes and failures, and its responses to these. In so doing, it documents how robust and integrated evidence—along with changes in policy, budgeting, investment and monitoring ...
Development and Harmonization of Environmental Laws Volume 2 : Report on the Development and Harmonization of Environmental Standards in East Africa
(1999)
Environmental law is an essential tool for the governance and management of the environment and natural resources. It is the foundation of national and regional policies and actions to ensure that the use of natural resources ...