Mountain Climate Change
Hyrcanian vegetation zone is a green belt stretching over the northern slopes of Alborz mountain ranges and covers the southerncoasts of the Caspian Sea. This area stretches from Astara in the northwest to Gorgan vicinity in the northeast of Iran that covered some parts of three rovinces of Iran including: Golestan, Mazandaran and Gilan Provinces. This area has a total area of 1.85 million ha...
To understand how agriculture and poverty interact, we analysed water availability, productivity and institutions for the Andes basins. Water limits agricultural productivity in the southern basins but is plentiful in the northern basins where steep slopes or poor land and water management limit productivity. The dominance of small, steep basins results in important upstream–downstream...
In this interview, Dr. Echeverria, Director General of CIAT (Colombia), indicates that a new “doubly green” agriculture is necessary in order to continue the necessary increase in food production, biofuel and other commodities while contributing to the restoration of degraded ecosystem functions. It will be based on a multifunctional use of land that considers not only the production of...
