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The Trade & Development Chart shows the extent to which the EU's deforestation regulation will apply to a country's exports as a share of total exports or GDP. The regulation will...

This note summarizes lessons and practices deployed in embedding climate resilience into the design of projects that received catalytic funds from The Africa Climate Resilience Investment Facility (AFRI-RES). It...

Highlights: Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 - adopted by the co-legislators on 31 May 2023 - aimed at tackling deforestation and forest degradation driven by the European Union (EU)...

The prices of the main tropical commodities, which were generally up in 2021 against the backdrop of a post-Covid recovery and occasional labour shortages, have evolved in 2022 in a very disordered...

Climate variability affects agricultural production systems and rural communities, generating risks to food security and increasing rural poverty. Therefore, improving the capacity of rural households...

The story of global agriculture is largely one of small farms, as small-scale operations account for 90% of the 570 million farms around the world and are responsible for a notable share...

Highlights: Despite efforts to promote sustainable agriculture, food and agricultural production remain the main driver of global biodiversity loss. However, where food production conflicts...

The program: The FOLUR program - $345 million initiative funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and led by the World Bank – aims to play a significant role...

About 1.5 billion people, most of the world’s poor, live on small farms in developing countries. Improving livelihoods requires investing in their “agriculture human capital”...

Highlight This paper used publicly-available remote-sensing and supply chain data to examine the links between cocoa production and deforestation in Côte d'Ivoire, the world's largest cocoa producer...