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Management of biodiversity and land use in southern Peru: Ecoan's activities to help conserve Polylepis woodlands
The Asociacion Ecosistemas Andinos (ECOAN) was founded in 2000 in Cusco, Peru, to support the sustainable use of Andean ecosystems in Peru.  The founders, local biologists from Cusco, had been working with the biodiversity associated with high-altitude woodlands since 1990. Recognising the need for effective conservation and sustainable use in the High Andes, they began a dialogue with...
ICIMOD's transboundary biodiversity management initiative in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas

This paper discusses the criteria for biodiversity management in transboundary landscapes:

  • Identify transboundary candidate priority landscapes that are critical for biodiversity management. Countries sharing the areas should be committed to develop and manage such landscapes.
  • Apply participatory management of biodiversity in the PAs of candidate...
Understanding links between gendered local knowledge of agrobiodiversity and food security in Tanzania

Tanzania, with many mountain ranges, has outstanding biodiversity due to diverse ecosystems. It is one of 14 biodiversity hotspot countries in the world. The majority of Tanzanian men and women depend directly on natural resources, biodiversity, and knowledge and experience of how to ensure their family's food security. Women and local communities have possessed specialised...

Enhancing farm tree diversity as a means of conserving landscape-based biodiversity insights from the Kigezi Highlands, southwestern Uganda
The appropriateness of targeting conservation landscapes that include biodiversity sanctuaries within a matrix of agricultural and other land uses is being increasingly recognised as a method for achieving both biodiversity conservation and livelihood improvement. An assessment of on-farm tree diversity in the Kigezi Highlands in a transect from Kabale town to Bwindi Impenetrable National...
Paying for biodiversity conservation services: Experience in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua

One of the most important reasons for the degradation of biodiversity, in mountain areas and elsewhere, is that the people who make land use decisions often receive few or no benefits from biodiversity conservation. Understandably, therefore, they generally ignore potential biodiversity benefits when choosing land use practices. The end result is that biodiversity is often...

Participatory planning for biodiversity conservation in the high tropical Andes: Are farmers interested?
The success of participatory conservation projects depends greatly on the interest shown by the local population and on the strategies used to incorporate all stakeholders from the initial stages. In the highly diverse region of the tropical Andean páramos, threats to ecosystem integrity come mainly from agriculture and cattle grazing. Approaches to biodiversity conservation have...
Managing mountain protected areas: Challenges and responses for the 21st century

This book presents 49 papers that formed the basis of a "Mountain Protected Area Field Workshop" organised by the Mountain Biome of the World Commission on Protected Areas of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) in South Africa's uKhahlama-Drakensberg World Heritage Site in September 2003.  Referring to 28 different mountain areas around the world, a collection of 49 papers is...

Fallow agroecosystem dynamics and socioeconomic development in China: Two case studies in Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan Province
Using twenty years of statistical data and household survey data from 1998 to 2001, this paper examines the link between socioeconomic factors and conservation of agrobiodiversity in fallow agroecosystems in two small rural villages, Daka and Baka, in Xishuangbanna, southwest China. These communities have long practiced traditional fallow field, or swidden agriculture, which has maintained a...
New protected areas in Norway: Local participation without gender equality

In Norway, as in many other countries, new protected areas are currently being established and managed with strong policy references to “local participation.” Is this policy implemented in a way that incorporates the concern for gender equality? The present article provides data from a study of two cases in which new protected areas have recently been established...

Key issues for mountain areas

Analysis of this book, that provides an overview of both the state of knowledge and debate on the most important topics related to mountain areas, which mountain people and scholars necessarily see as issues. It is admirable that the three co-editors contacted a plethora of recognized experts in their fields to produce a book on seemingly disparate topics in different regions of the world....

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