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Houselisting and housing census data highlights - 2011

These are highlights of the first phase of Census 2011 known as Houselisting and Housing Census. It indicates that there is a substantial improvement in the quality of housing both in rural and urban areas & says that around half of the households have drainage connectivity with two-third have the open drainage and one-third have the closed drainage.

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Addressing climate change and migration in Asia and the Pacific

Climate change will increase the frequency of extreme weather events, making more geographic places inhospitable to human habitation and secure livelihoods. This report presents a detailed picture of the potential impacts of climate change on migration in Asia and the Pacific.

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Forest management and climate change: a literature review

The FAO has released a working paper summarizing knowledge and experience in forest management as a response to climate change, based on a literature review and a survey of forest managers. The paper is part of an FAO-led process to prepare climate change guidelines for forest managers.

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Energy for economic growth: energy vision update 2012

As the world struggles to emerge from a global financial crisis and its fallout on the real economy, countries are looking for solutions to improve domestic economic performance and put people back to work.

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Urbanization, gender and urban poverty: paid work and unpaid carework in the city

The majority of the world’s population now live in urban centres, which will also absorb virtually all population growth in the next century.

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Good environmental practices in bioenergy feedstock production: making bioenergy work for climate and food security

In order to ensure that modern bioenergy development is sustainable and that it safeguards food security, a number of good practices can be implemented throughout the bioenergy supply chain.

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Crop prospects and food situation 2012

FAO forecast that 2012 world wheat production will be the second highest on record at 690 million tonnes and also announced that international food prices rose one percent in February — the second increase in two months.

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Progress on drinking water and sanitation 2012

World has met the Millennium Development Goal target of halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water, well in advance of the MDG 2015 deadline, according to this report by UNICEF & WHO.

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A compilation of tools and methodologies to assess the sustainability of modern bioenergy

The FAO’s Bioenergy and Food Security Criteria and Indicators (BEFSCI) project has compiled a set of thirty relevant tools and methodologies that can be used to inform the development of a sustainable bioenergy sector and of sustainable operations, and to assess, both ex-ante and ex-post, the main environmental and socio-economic impacts arising

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Impacts of bioenergy on food security

FAO’s Bioenergy and Food Security Criteria and Indicators (BEFSCI) project has developed a set of indicators that be used to assess the impacts of bioenergy on food security at both national and levels. In addition, BEFSCI has identified range of possible responses to these impacts.

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