natural resources
Teniendo en cuenta los grandes condicionantes naturales del Departamento de Caldas, CORPOCALDAS desarrolla tareas y proyectos concretos de prevención, control y mitigación de riesgos ambientales. La entidad parte de un diagnóstico de los principales recursos naturales (agua, suelo y flora), concluyendo que el recurso suelo es el mayormente degradado especialmente por la...
The vast natural resources of India’s forests, including non-timber forest products (NTFPs), such as medicinal and aromatic plants, leaves, fruits, seeds, resins, gums, bamboos, and canes, offer employment that provides up to half the income of about 25 per cent of the country’s rural labour force. However, poor harvesting practices and over-exploitation in the face of increasing market demand...
Every year, nearly 17 million hectares of tropical rain forests are destroyed, thousands of irreplaceable plant varieties are lost and millions of hectares of land turn into deserts.
Will increased agricultural production, with its associated use of fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation and farm machinery only exacerbate these severe global environmental problems? In short, does the goal...
Poverty, low agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are severe interrelated problems in less-favoured areas of the tropics. Less-favoured areas include lands that have low agricultural potential because of limited and uncertain rainfall, poor soils, steep slopes, or other biophysical constraints, as well as areas that may have high agricultural potential but have limited...
Agricultural production relies on environmental services to transform raw inputs into the nutritious and diverse food that humans rely on for survival. Although the practice of agriculture is essential for human health, careless and inappropriate agricultural practices can degrade and contaminate natural resources and in so doing, harm human health. Modified agricultural practices can help...
Livestock-poultry, small ruminants (such as goats and sheep), cattle, and pigs-provide many benefits for human well-being. Livestock production systems, especially in developing countries, are changing rapidly in response to population growth, urbanization, and growing demand for meat and milk. The need for action by all sectors to mitigate climate change adds additional complexity to the...
Protection of large natural forest landscapes is a highly important task to help fulfill different international strategic initiatives to protect forest biodiversity, to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and to stimulate sustainable forest management practices. This paper introduces a new approach for mapping large intact forest landscapes (IFL), defined as an...
The catchment area in Vietnam, and selected watersheds in particular, are vitally important in terms of socio-economic and environmental development as well as natural resources protection. They are the livelihood of all ethnic minorities - the most prioritised target groups of a number development projects of Vietnam at present and in future. Major constraints for catchment development...
Over the last 40 years, the Yucatan Peninsula has experienced the implementation and promotion of development programs that have economically and ecologically shaped this region of Mexico. Nowadays, tourist development has become the principal catalyst of social, economic, and ecological changes in the region. All these programs, which are based on a specialization rationale, have historically...
In 2005, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC) conducted a regional workshop entitled 'Capitalisation and Sharing of Experiences on the Interaction between Forest Policies and Land Use Patterns in Asia' for the beginning of a larger knowledge management initiative within SDC...
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