African cities face critical challenges in delivering essential services due to limited financial resources and vulnerabilities to climate change impacts, such as floods, and water and energy insecurity. Many cities lack adequate stormwater drainage infrastructure and capacity, hindering their ability to implement environmental sustainability proje...
The environmental summits in Rio de Janeiro, Kyoto, Johannesburg, Bali, Copenhagen, and Paris significantly contributed to raising awareness among nations about the need to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In this context, the energy transition from carbon-based energy sources to renewable energy sources is one of the main goals for both stat...
In the year 2021, when this study began, the department of Arauca was positioned as one of the largest recipients of international cooperation resources in Colombia, due to the fact that the department presented problems that coincided with some of the issues prioritized by the country in the international cooperation agendas. This article analyzes...
An unavoidable question guides the content of this article: why does the Black, Afro- Colombian, Raizal and Palenquera (NARP) population present the lowest social and economic development indices in Colombia? The answer to this important question constitutes the central axis that gave rise to the investigative process that aims, in general terms, t...
According to World Economic Forum, gender inequalities are still present in several countries, despite the international agreements reached as a consequence of the struggles of the feminist movement. The Beijing platform for action (1995) proposed several recommendations among which, the need to advance in the institutional architecture as a tool t...
Development processes and action on climate change are closely interlinked. This is recognised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its fifth assessment report, which reports on climate-resilient pathways, understood as development trajectories towards sustainable development which include adaptation and mitigation. The upcomi...
Lake Ziway is providing water for a wide variety of sectors in the central rift valley of Ethiopia. However, there is a lack of systematic study that informs the effect of water abstraction on the lake water balance. In the present study, we conducted a Water Abstraction Survey (WAS) to estimate actual water withdrawal from the lake and developed a...
Este documento presenta un análisis de competitividad de la cadena de valor del cacao y chocolate en Ucayali realizado bajo el marco del proyecto Sustainable Amazon Businesses (SAB) (Modelos de negocios para abordar los motores de la deforestación en Perú) liderado por la Alianza de Bioversity International y el CIAT, en coordinación con el Ministe...
