Colombia
Since 1986, the Centre for Research on Sustainable Farming Systems (CIPAV) has worked in the south-west of Colombia, conducting participatory research studies with peasant farmers and entrepreneurial producers on different aspects of integrated systems. Presently, much of the progress made in generating, validating and applying new know-how regarding these systems...
The Full Value of Parks is the first comprehensive look at the values associated with parks and other kinds of protected areas. Much has been written about the importance of parks to the tourism industry, yet the reasons why people care deeply about them usually have little or nothing to do with money. Instead, people value parks as sacred sanctuaries and places of spiritual self-discovery, as...
As the effects of climate change join and exacerbate the conflicts, natural disasters and development projects that drive displacement, Christian Aid fear that an emerging migration crisis will spiral out of control. Unless urgent action is taken, it threatens to dwarf even that faced by the war ravaged world all those decades ago. Christian Aid predicts that, on current trends, a further 1...
Se presentan registros adicionales de Atelopus nahumae y Atelopus laetissimus en la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Magdalena), Colombia, y una caracterización actual de su ecosistema. Las especies son endémicas del macizo montañoso y están clasificadas en Peligro Crítico de extinción por su vulnerabilidad ecológica y por la ausencia de registros...
Process to measure and interpret physical and chemical characteristics that regulate soil behaviour in relation to water, nutrient storage and infiltration: Case of the Fuquene Lake.
The Fúquene river basin is located in the central part of Colombia near the city of Bogotá and has an area of 187,000 hectares. This watershed was selected because the lake is suffering...
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