Resources
Review of Models of Care for Trafficking Survivors in Thailand
As a country of origin, destination, and transit for forced labor and human trafficking, Thailand has been expanding its efforts to offer shelter and assistance to both Thai and foreign citizens, however, some gaps remain. Using international standards and good practices as benchmarks for quality of assistance, the study reviews victim care models in Thailand […]
VCRD Learning Across Value Chains
USAID/Burma’s Value Chains for Rural Development project (“the project”) is helping farmers, processors, and exporters improve the quality of selected commodities – soy, ginger, coffee, sesame and melons – and transact in more efficient, inclusive, and transparent ways. Now in its fifth and final year of implementation, this report highlights key cross-cutting learning since late […]
VC-RD Public-Private Partnerships That Are Changing the World
The Darden School of Business’ Institute for Business in Society partners with Concordia and the U.S. Department of State Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships to present the annual P3 Impact Award, which recognizes leading public-private partnerships that improve communities around the world. This year’s award will be presented at the Concordia Annual Summit XXX September […]
Inundaciones, deslizamientos y huaycos
El cambio climático causará eventos más severos de El Niño y mayores ocurrencias de lluvias intensas que a sus vez causarán inundaciones, deslizamientos y huaycos más frecuentes y de mayor envergadura. Además, en el corto y mediano plazo, el derretimiento de los glaciares provocará un aumento del flujo de los cuerpos de agua que alimentan, […]
Escasez de Agua
El cambio climático empeorará los problemas de escasez de agua en algunas partes de Perú debido al retroceso de los glaciares, los cambios en los patrones de precipitación, y a la variabilidad climática asociada a más incidencias de sequías.
Olas de calor y aumentos de la temperatura
En Perú, el cambio climático está causando un incremento de las temperaturas promedios anuales en todo el país. Esto, a su vez, conduce a temperaturas máximas mayores y una mayor frecuencia de eventos cálidos extremos, es decir, olas de calor, especialmente durante los años de El Niño.
Aumento del Nivel del Mar
El cambio climático está causando un aumento del nivel del mar por dos razones: 1) el derretimiento de glaciares y otras formaciones de hielo en la tierra; y 2) la expansión del volumen de agua del mar, porque está más caliente (expansión térmica). Entre 1993 y 2018 el nivel medio global del mar, en el […]
Success Story: Building Resilience of Agricultural Businesses
Shahnoza, LLC is a small-scale agri-enterprise based in Jayhun district in southwest Tajikistan. The company was started by Abdugaffor Kurbonov in 1999 and, over time, has diversified its agricultural activities from lemon production and a range of homeproduced value-added products to introducing strawberry production for the first time in 2017. With his wife and four […]
Success Story: Networking for Business Development
Tajikistan’s agricultural sector is a very important segment of the Central Asian country’s economy, and its southwestern Khatlon province is particularly famous throughout the region for its beautiful fruit and vegetables. However, most farmers are not able to sell their produce outside of the province due to a combination of poor business skills and limited […]