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Application to design field forms, it is as entry point for data collected in field-based inventories using Collect Mobile or copying paper froms, and it cleans the collected data. It provides a fast, easy, flexible way to set up a survey with a user-friendly interface. Collect handles multiple data types and complex validation rules, all in a multilanguage environment.

Resource book for field-level practitioners and local decision-makers involved in Watershed Management, primarily at the district or municipality level. It provides overall guidance and reflection and presents the main elements and principles of the new paradigm, compared to earlier approaches to watershed management.

The forestry module provides a modelling tool to assess the impacts of climate change on forests at the national level. Results from MOSAICC form a solid evidence-base about projected impacts of climate change for an improved climate change adaptation planning.

In many regions of the world, sustainable and reliable delivery of water services has become increasingly complex and problematic. Complexities that are very likely to increase, considering the unprecedented confluence of pressures linked to demographic, economic, dietary trends, and climate change. Particularly if overall demand for freshwater exceeds supply, the delivery of water services is often less about engineering, although engineering is still required, and more about politics, governance, managing and protecting sources, resolving conflicts about water, ensuring rights to water are respected, and so on. It is also about understanding and monitoring the hydrological cycle at the appropriate scale of analysis. This is where water accounting and auditing can play a crucial role. The rationale behind this water accounting and auditing sourcebook is that scope exists worldwide to improve water-related sectoral and inter-sectoral decision-making at local, regional and national levels. Water accounting and auditing are recommended by FAO and others as being fundamental to initiatives that aim to cope with water scarcity. This sourcebook aims to provide practical advice on the application and use of water accounting and auditing, helping users planning and implementing processes that best fit their needs.

This review is a product of the Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership . The initial objective of this review was to provide the members LEAP Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on biodiversity with a common ground of knowledge on the main biodiversity indicators and assessment methods that could be applied to livestock production. The objective of this group was to develop Principles for the assessment of livestock impacts on biodiversity (LEAP biodiversity principles, LEAP, in prep.). This document went indeed beyond its initial objective providing an important body of information on biodiversity assessment which could be useful to stakeholders of the livestock and related sectors with an interest in the topic.