Biblioteca

This slide presentation introduces the role of micro-insurance and, in particular, weather-indexed insurance as an option for adaptation to climate change in the agricultural sector. In fact, there are many constraints in the traditional crop insurance especially due to moral hazard and asymmetric information. The presentation ends with an overview of the IFAD-WFP Weather Risk Management Facility. 

This activity report looks at the benefits of biogas including providing poor rural women and men in developing countries with clean and renewable energy all year round. The advantages of biogas technology are illustrated by a case study from Eritrea.

This video introduces the issue of heat waves in Jordan. This climatic phenomenon creates considerable concern among the local population: exceptionally hot weather across Jordan made many farmers worried. Jordan, already among the world’s top 10 water-poor countries, is the only country in the Middle East to ration water year round.

This activity report presents an IFAD supported project aimed to turn waste into energy in China. In particular the project recognised that animal manure is a source of methane, the main component of natural gas and a potent greenhouse gas when released to the atmosphere. But methane can also be captured and used as a source of clean, renewable and affordable energy. The project provided about 30,000 poor households with nearly 23,000 ‘biodigester’ tanks for biogas production. As a result, methane emissions dropped, incomes rose and household sanitation and health improved. 

This video introduces the issue of biogas as an alternative source of energy. Animal manure is a source of methane, the main component of natural gas and a potent greenhouse gas when released to the atmosphere. But methane can also be captured and used as a source of clean, renewable and affordable energy. An IFAD-supported project in China provided about 30,000 poor households with nearly 23,000 ‘biodigester’ tanks for biogas production. As a result, methane emissions dropped, incomes rose and household sanitation and health improved.

This slide presentation provides an overview of the efforts undertaken by IFAD’s Asia and Pacific Division to address climate change. Examples include the cooperation with the Global Mechanism to link climate change and land in the Country Strategic Opportunities Programme (COSOP) for Viet Nam, the promotion of payment for environmental services (PES) through the RUPES project, and the pilot of index-based weather insurance products through the IMI funded pilot-project in China.

This slide presentation is about the main findings of an IFAD portfolio review carried out by the Environment Desk in IFAD’s Technical Advisory Division. The portfolio review revealed that IFAD strengths concerning adaptation lie in the following areas: (i) community empowerment, (ii) promoting access to land and natural resources, (iii) supporting community-based approaches, (iv) addressing the gender dimension, (v) building on traditional and indigenous knowledge, and (vi) supporting pro-poor research.

This curriculum covers the CLIMTRAIN project: a climate change tailor-made training programme for IFAD’s Programme Management Department. The main goal of the CLIMTRAIN project is to support directly IFAD’s Programme Management Department (PMD) in building its capacity both in climate change mitigation and adaptation.

This activity report  observes that national frameworks to reduce poverty and adapt to climate change rarely, if ever, interlink. Most Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs) and National Development Strategies (NDSs) screened during a review by ODI ignore climate change issues almost entirely. Gaps and disconnects between climate adaptation and poverty reduction frameworks undermine efforts to cushion the poverty impact of climate change. More effort is needed to improve links between climate change adaptation plans and projects and country-led poverty reduction strategies.

This analytical report examines the impact of desertification on women, their role in the management of natural resources and drylands, and the constraints they face. It presents the experiences of several IFAD-supported programmes and projects in addressing women as natural resource users and managers in dryland areas, and highlights some of the approaches used to reach women more effectively. It also presents lessons learned from IFAD programmes and projects, and recommendations for expanding women’s roles in order to restore dryland areas. 

This analytical report discusses the impact of climate change on poverty reduction and development. It stresses that generally attention has focused on mitigation – slowing the pace of climate change – and adaptation – helping people cope with its effects. However, remarkably little has been said or written about the people who will feel the impact most – the poor rural people of developing countries – and even less attention has been given to how they can contribute to slowing its advance.

This activity report outlines the role of agriculture in climate change adaptation and how IFAD and GEF are contributing to adaptation in this sector. The GEF supports actions to address climate change by financing mitigation and adaptation activities. As a GEF executing agency, IFAD can also assist developing countries in accessing GEF grants for adaptation. There are currently three international financing sources for adaptation, all administered by the GEF: the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), and the Piloting an Operational Approach to Adaptation (SPA) under the GEF trust fund.

This document addresses the issue of gender and desertification. It looks at how women and men have different roles and needs, and often their access to land, water and other assets is not equal. Lessons from IFAD-supported projects show that both women and men benefit from a gender approach that reinforces their joint participation in restoring the productivity of degraded land, and ensures that women are involved in planning and in carrying out dryland development activities.

This analytical report explains why renewable energy has been a fundamental pillar of the operations of the GEF, and looks at how the institution has demonstrated unique leadership by investing in initiatives in almost 100 countries and economies in transition.

The activity report consists of two parts. Part I reports project activities approved by the GEF during the reporting period from September 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009. They include both climate change mitigation and adaptation activities funded from the GEF Trust Fund, the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF). Part II describes GEF’s response to convention guidance.

This analytical report looks at how and where GEF is investing funding to increase energy efficiency and decrease emissions. Today the GEF is one of the public sector’s largest funders for energy efficiency in the world, with direct investments of US$850 million in more than 90 developing and transition countries and an additional US$5.9 billion in cofinancing. These investments are expected to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 1.3 billion tonnes by 2020.

This analytical report presents the different ways in which GEF is supporting adaption action and looks at specific projects in a number of countries. It addresses particularly the issue of finance and the creation of new climate change funds following GEF’s Strategic Priority on Adaptation. Through this program, the GEF has financed the first concrete adaptation projects, implementing measures for the specific purpose of reducing vulnerability and increasing the adaptive capacity of vulnerable communities and the ecosystems on which their lives depend.

This technical document aims to describe the GEF programmatic approach, a long-term and strategic arrangement of individual yet interlinked projects that aim at achieving large-scale impacts on the global environment. This approach enables countries to achieve such impacts through (a) strengthening country ownership; (b) promoting horizontal and vertical integration of global environmental concerns into decision making; and (c) increasing opportunities for cofinancing from a variety of other sources. Furthermore, the document aims to enhance understanding among GEF’s wide range of stakeholders on the comparative advantages of the GEF programmatic approach.

This activity report summarises the main outcomes and recommendations of the GEF roundtable on sustainable energy. The roundtable was one of four sponsored by GEF to address critical environmental and sustainable development issues as a contribution to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). Each roundtable was held in conjunction with a WSSD preparatory meeting.

This activity report presents the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and its action to fight climate change.  GEF unites 176 member governments—in partnership with international institutions, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the private sector—to address global environmental issues while supporting national sustainable development initiatives. It is particularly committed to support the development of renewable energy technologies through innovative financial mechanisms.