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The SHARP+ tool is currently being used as part of the Drylands Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (DSL-IP), a FAO-led initiative funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). With the overarching goal of mitigating environmental degradation and achieving Land Degradation Neutrality [...]

Over 450 SHARP+ surveys have just been conducted in the Cattle Corridor in Uganda, within the Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture through Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) programme (SCALA), led by FAO [...]

The latest version of the SHARP+ tool is now available on KoBoToolbox in English, French and Turkish. In order to access the digital version of the tool, please create a user account on KoBo and contact the SHARP+ team to get access. This [...]

The SHARP+ tool was used in a comparative study conducted with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ) to explore resilience and better understand its prerequisites in two different contexts, Uganda and Switzerland. Data were collected in two different [...]

SHARP+ has been selected as a tool to report under the Paris Agreement's Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF).  In collaboration with FAO's Office Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, the SHARP team tailored SHARP+ to make it EFT ready. This implied fine-tuning SHARP+ [...]

Through the Regional Hub of the IFAD and GEF-funded Impact Programme Resilient Food Systems (RFS), FAO has played a central role in developing innovative tools and methodologies to monitor and assess ecosystem services and socio-economic benefits. Together with the RFS Programme Coordination Unit [...]

FAO, in close collaboration with IFAD and national governments is supporting smallholder farmers from West and Central Africa to adapt small-scale irrigation systems to climate change to be more resilient. SHARP was implemented in 691 households in 21 sites located [...]

Resilience Measurement, Evidence and Learning Conference 2018 From the 12th-15th of November the Resilience Measurement, Evidence and Learning (RMEL) Conference will take place in New Orleans, USA. This conference is an ideal venue for scientists and practitioners from around the world [...]

The Forum Origin, Diversity and Territories is a meeting point for an international community of practitioners, scientists and policy-makers to share ideas and develop strategies on the interactions between diversity and the territorial origin of agricultural and non-agricultural products. Its [...]

In the last year the SHARP team has conducted a major technical review of the tool based on the experience gathered from the implementation in the field over the past 3 years. Currently, the team is working in close collaboration with [...]