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We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the session "Andean communities in the face of global change" (see attachment) which Wageningen University and Research Centre propose together with Giuseppe Feola at the Resilience 2014 Conference taking place 4-8 May 2014, Montpellier, France (http...
In the most vulnerable regions of our planet, the impacts of extreme weather events such as floods and droughts threaten lives and livelihoods. The most affected regions include large deltas, small islands, and exposed coastal regions, as well as arid and semiarid lands, and areas affected by glacier and...
On 8-19 April, the UN Forum on Forest 10 (UNFF) will gather the world community to focus on some of the pressing issues at stake to secure healthy forests worldwide. Jan McAlpine, Director of the UN Forum on Forest Secretariat, shared some of her hopes for this major event and beyond, in an exclusive DESA News interview.
Forests cover one third of the Earth’s land mass,...
Food security for many Africans requires exploiting a wide variety of resources. People living on the coastal savanna of southern Mozambique use the landscape’s diversity to supplement domestic food production. This photo essay highlights the variety of resources used and problems faced in achieving food security in two communities in Matutúine District, Mozambique. Although the focus of essay...
<p>Kitini Gaon Panchayat is located in the south eastern fringe of the Kathmandu Valley about eight miles from the headquarters of Lalitpur District Panchayat in Pata. Kitini is connected with Kathmandu by a motorable road. Agriculture is the main occupation, but some people gain their livelihood from other sources such as quarrying.</p>
<p>The article examines the...
In the author's tour of east Nepal hills, starting from Solu and proceeding eastwards to Dharan by Okaldhunga, Bhojpur, Chainpur and Hile, the author noted the regular appearance of certain manufactured goods. Batteries, biscuits, cigarettes, cloth etc. could be seen. Copy books, rubber or canvas shoes, kerosene brass lamps, candles, glass tumblers, aluminium vessels, traditional brassware,...
Until the 1990s, Tibetan studies was dominated by historians, religious scholars, and philologists. The occasional anthropologist who attended these seminars usually worked in the ethnically Tibetan borderlands of Nepal and India, or among the refugee communities of South Asia. Representatives of other disciplines, notably demography, sociology, geography, economics, and political science,...
Nepal is a land of ethnic diversity. The proper understanding of Nepal's ethnic diversity is not possible without understanding the role of international migration. The population of Nepal represents waves of migration from the north and the south at different periods of history. As such, Nepal contains both the Mongoloid and the Indo-Aryan races as well as their admixture. The legend of...
This study was conducted in collaboration with HarvestChoice (IFPRI) and evaluates the potential impacts of the Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project run by CIMMYT and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in 13 countries of eastern, southern and west Africa, describing cumulative economic and poverty-reduction benefits to farmers and consumers in those...
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