The Sub-Regional Office for the Caribbean (SLC) is responsible for developing, promoting, overseeing and implementing agreed strategies for addressing sub-regional food, agriculture and rural development priorities. It develops and maintains relations with sub-region wide institutions including Regional Economic Integration Organizations (REIOs). The project is aimed at scaling up the Pilot Agricultural Land Bank in Grenada to a National Land…

The fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly provides leadership, catalyzes, intergovernmental actions on the environment, and contributes to the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNEA-5 will take place in a two-step approach. The first session of UNEA-5 will be conducted virtually on 22-23 February 2021 with a revised and streamlined agenda that will focus on urgent…

Today, data is the greatest instrument, opening doors to endless possibilities and providing tools for better decision making. The future of agriculture and food production can be vastly improved by making data accessible and re-useable, providing the power to improve farming practices everywhere. Key to this change is in the proactive sharing of Open Data, ensuring information about agriculture and nutrition is placed into the hands of every…

FSC works to take care of our forests and those who rely on them: by protecting plant and animal species, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, forest workers’ safety, and much more. FSC achieve this through FSC certification, ensuring forests around the world are responsibly managed. To effectively meet the challenge of protecting the world’s forests, FSC is committed to ensuring they have the world’s most skilled people working with us. This commitment…

With respect to climate change mitigation, the sequestration of carbon by forests and soils is one of the most important ecosystem services of terrestrial ecosystems. Therefore, large efforts have been undertaken and major political initiatives started to increase the carbon storage capacity of forests and their products. Professionals with competencies in the development of land use based mitigation projects and with knowledge of related climate…

WWF is the world's largest conservation organization, founded in 1961. For nearly 60 years, WWF has worked for a living planet where people and nature thrive. WWF’s mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature. WWF-Ukraine is a member of WWF Central and Eastern Europe, a self-governing member of the WWF global network covering Ukraine, Moldova, Hungary…

WWF is the world's largest conservation organization, founded in 1961. We’re active in over 100 countries and have over 7000 employees. WWF-CEE (formerly WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme) is responsible for leading and implementing WWF’s efforts to preserve, restore and sustainably manage the natural values of the Danube-Carpathian ecoregion – the “Green Heart of Europe”. We are now seeking to recruit a dynamic and enthusiastic Regional Forest…

The Center for Development Research (ZEF) is an institute of the University of Bonn, Germany that aims to find science‐based solutions to development‐related issues. ZEF’s research departments on Economic and Technological Change, Political and Cultural Change, and Ecology and Natural Resources Management conduct inter and transdisciplinary research in, for and with emerging economies and on global issues with its collaborating research partners…

The Center for Development Research (ZEF) of the University of Bonn invites you to the next ZEF colloquium on Does food security matter for well-being? Evidence from a cross-country panel with Lukas Kornher (ZEF). The study explores the welfare impacts of food insecurity between 2005-2017, which was characterized by the period of high international food price fluctuations between 2007 and 2011, using a cross-country panel from the Gallup World…

The Center for Development Research (ZEF) is an institute of the University of Bonn, Germany. It started its research activities in 1997. ZEF's researchers aim to find science-based solutions to development-related issues. ZEF’s research departments on Economic and Technological Change, Political and Cultural Change, and Ecology and Natural Resources Management conduct inter- and trans-disciplinary research in, for and with emerging economies and…

Are you passionate about climate action? Do you believe that pledges to act are essential in creating a resilient, healthy, and prosperous society and to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement? CDP is seeking a highly motivated individual to lead CDP’s project management and pledging system work for the European Climate Pact Secretariat. CDP Europe is one of the operators of the European Climate Pact Secretariat. The European Climate Pact is an EU…

The mission of United Nations University (UNU) is to contribute, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are the concern of the United Nations and its Member States. The mission of UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) is to advance human security through knowledge-based approaches to reducing vulnerability and environmental risks. UNU-EHS and Eurac Research have…

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an international financial institution and a specialized United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating rural poverty and hunger. It does so by investing in rural people. IFAD finances programmes and projects that increase agricultural productivity and raise rural incomes, and advocates at the local, national and international level for policies that contribute to rural transformation…

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, through its Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government, will hold a virtual workshop on Sound Policymaking for Sustainable Development on 16 February 2021 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. EST (New York time) over the Zoom platform. It will focus on 5 African countries: Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa and Uganda. In 2018, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) endorsed eleven…