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The Central Asia communication needs assessment was undertaken in the frame of the Asia Pacific Mountain Network’s support to the Mountain Partnership Secretariat. It included telephonic and e-mail discussions with stakeholders from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, supplemented by online research.
Characteristic for the region is the transition to a more decentralized free market...
An historic opportunity—the eradication of poverty—is within reach of the 2005 World Summit. However, a critical barrier persists: progress on eliminating poverty will only be possible with expanded, more effectively targeted investments in environmental management as a means of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Speeding progress towards the MDGs will require...
The precautionary principle, or precautionary approach, has emerged over recent decades as a widely and increasingly accepted general principle of environmental policy, law, and management. It is an approach to uncertainty, and provides for action to avoid serious or irreversible environmental harm in advance of scientific certainty of such harm. While an important and intuitively sensible...
A team of Oxfam researchers travelled to the two provinces of Ben Tre and Quang Tri in May 2008 to take a snapshot of how poor families are experiencing the changing climate, and how they might deal with this in the future.
Main findings from the report:
- Poor men and women in Ben Tre and Quang Tri are already experiencing the...
Four conferences of the European Ministers of Forestry have addressed the role of forests as an important economic factor to date, stressing research results and needs, followed their significant contribution in protecting human settlements and infrastructure against natural hazards and providing benefits such as recreation and preservation of ecological diversity. They also focused on...
The Slovak Republic is one of the most forested countries in Europe. Forest covers about 20,000 km2 (41%) of the total area of the country, a substantial part of which is occupied by the mountains of the Carpathian Arch (highest peak: Gerlachovsky Peak, 2655 m). Forests in Slovakia have commercial functions as well as functions of benefit to the public: timber production, water...
The conference on “Conservation of Himalayan Biodiversity for Human Welfare” drew international attention to conservation and sustainable management and use of biological resources. The conference brought together various related aspects such as education, research, development, policy, production, processing, marketing, economics, energy and environment and established an...
This document provides a Strategic Framework for research and development activities with underutilised plants for Asia, including the Pacific Islands and for sub-Saharan Africa.
The document reviews current activities, provides examples of success and emphasizes the need to improve resource mobilisation in support of underutilised plant species research and development, including...
The Food Security and Agricultural Projects Analysis Unit (ESAF) of FAO has undertaken a number of pilot studies to develop a methodology for understanding why certain groups of people are vulnerable to becoming food insecure. The studies use the sustainable livelihoods approach adopted for food security analysis and are primarily based on qualitative information collection. The objective of...
Understanding women’s influence on plant biodiversity is essential to our ability to conserve plant genetic resources, especially those plants that are useful to humans. Contrary to previous thinking, it is becoming clear that women know most about these plants because, throughout history, women’s daily work has required more of this knowledge.
This paper describes how...
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