The present report was informed by the work of the Intergovernmental Working Group on Drought under the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and its holistic approach with the other Rio Conventions, as well as the international sustainable development and disaster risk reduction communities. The publication builds on a recent review of drought risk mitigation, preparedness and response measures commissioned by FAO with partners in the Integrated Drought Management Programme, alongside a range of other recent global reviews, and the work of the Intergovernmental Working Group of the UNCCD on drought.

“Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest)” is a project led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and financed by the Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) trust fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) with a lifespan of two and a half years. 

The global project strengthened the institutional and technical capacities of developing countries to collect, analyze and disseminate forest-related data. It supported countries in meeting the enhanced transparency framework (ETF) requirements of the Paris Agreement and contributed information necessary to track progress related to implementing and achieving their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

The case study highlights how a roadmap of actions and their targeted implementation can assist Madagascar in coping with the main challenges of addressing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reporting requirements. It describes the starting point for the roadmap of actions and explains how the approach chosen, the tools used, and sustained effort made it possible to overcome the country’s challenges. It also highlights the importance of developing sustainable in-house capacity for continuous future improvement.

The atlas describes the country’s climate and how it has changed over the last 30 years. It presents information such as minimum and maximum temperatures; the number of days with extreme temperature events; and agroclimatological studies during the 1990–2019 period. 

This report presents the results of a rapid assessment of climate technologies in Kazakhstan’s agrifood sector. It finds that precision agriculture, fattening units and conservation agriculture are attractive to private investors given their high rates of return and shorter payback periods.