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This book encompasses a broad range of natural resource sectors, with discrete chapters on water, land, forestry, fisheries, mining, petroleum and agriculture. Given this broad range of areas...

Highlights: Globally, 2.2 billion people have no access to clean water while 3.5 billion people are forced to manage daily without hygienic...

As both a cause and a victim of climate change, the interconnected food, land and water systems must undergo rapid, far-reaching, and sustained transformation. Measuring, mobilising and dispersing climate...

Key messages: Climate change and malnutrition are two of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. A common set of risks and vulnerabilities across people and societies means...

Agri-food systems face multiple challenges. They must deal with prevailing structural weaknesses, partly deepened by the disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, civil conflicts, and climate change...

For decades, global coffee consumption has grown, as tastes and offerings for consumers have increased around the world, and global demand for coffee will continue to grow in the years...

Highlights: The report focuses on eight of the SDGs (1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 12, 14 and 15). At the mid-point of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, there is...

Key messages: The thematic assessment of invasive alien species and their control produced by the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ( IPBES) critically...

This resource identifies and evaluates water risks around the world. It includes an Atlas and several tools, including a tool to understand and identify current and future water risks...

This guide explains the integration between fish culture and conventional crop agriculture and discusses how farmers can maximize the benefit of using these resources. The main concept...