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We live in a world of ecosystems – and our existence would not be possible without the life-supporting services they provide. Properly-functioning ecosystems in turn are fundamentally related to water security. This report, although brief in content, is meant to serve as food for thought about the linkages and interactions between human survival and well-being, and about the ecosystem...
Human well-being ultimately depends on the health of the ecosystems which envelope and sustain us. People exploit ecosystems for the food, water, and timber needed for everyday living. We depend on ecosystem processes to regulate natural cycles and keep diseases at bay. We rely on them for recreation, instruction and mental and spiritual enrichment.
UNEP places emphasis on...
The mountain areas of Latin America and the Caribbean occupy a substantial proportion of the Region and include significant segments of the population, including indigenous and cultural groups whose stability depends on the rational management of natural resources. The conservation of these areas has an impact on the quality of local, national and global environments and, in many cases, on the...
Policies of devolving management of resources from the state to user groups are premised upon the assumption that users will organise and take on the necessary management tasks. While experience has shown that in many places users do so and are very capable, expansion of co-management programmes beyond initial pilot sites often shows that this does not happen everywhere. Yet, much is at stake...
In October 2008 CTA organised an international seminar on the implications of climate change for sustainable agricultural production systems in ACP countries. It brought together about 200 participants from the ACP region, EU national institutions and regional and international organisations. The CTA Seminar identified ways of improving access to climate change information in ACP countries....
Hydropower generation within the Sierra Nevada, California involving more than 115 powerhouses, 421 jurisdictional dams, and 2,561 diversion dams (UCD Watershed Center FERC Database), creates the most significant bioregional impact on the health of Sierran aquatic ecosystems. The periodic relicensing of hydropower facilities regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is the...
Though community forests have a vital role in environmental services and sustainable development in developing countries such as in India and Nepal, the credit cannot yet to be claimed under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). It is due to difficulties of assessing the biomass and carbon storage in the community forests for monitoring and verification. However, forest carbon monitoring is...
It is important that the Cartagena Protocol of the Convention on Biological Diversity recognizes that the impact of introducing GMOs could be gender-differentiated because men and women have different knowledges, needs and vulnerabilities. Women worldwide, and specially women from indigenous groups and local communities, need to have access to information, skills, equipment, regulatory...
In this article from the CGIAR Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), questions are raised about forestry policy and poverty. In 1978, Jack Westoby challenged participants in the World Forestry Congress in Jakarta to make forest management serve the needs of local people. Thirty years later, how well has we done?
Not very well at all, according to a new article by...
This study was carried out in Bhodkhore Community Forest Users Group in Parbat district, Nepal with the overall objective to develop a clearer understanding of the challenges for service providers while working towards improving the Community Forestry governance. The primary data were collected through personal interviews, group discussions, key informant interviews and direct observations...
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