Turkey
Turkey's Millennium Development Goals Report was published in 2005. In this report, Turkey's commitments and goals for achieving the MDGs are explicitly presented, and activities carried out since the year 2000 and their concrete results are also included. Turkey takes the MDGs as a national challenge. Providing primary education to the entire country is one of the country's...
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is one of the great intellectual powerhouses of thought about water management. This book is an edited volume written largely by researchers associated with IWMI.
Case studies come from France, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey, Vietnam and the USA.
Grasslands and forests are degraded in Turkey’s Mediterranean Region (TMR), the centre of the widespread traditional Yoruk silvopastoral system. Government efforts to halt degradation focus on afforestation, a policy that reduces the amount of land available to the Yoruks for their traditional livelihood system, which is further endangered by socioeconomic dynamics subject to the...
This book is an attempt at quantifying 'Total Economic Value' (TEV) of Mediterranean forests across 18 countries. TEV represents the ways in which a natural resource, such as a forest, is valuable to people. Mediterranean forests have always been managed for multiple users, not just timber harvesting. The many benefits from forests include timber, non-timber products such as...
Underutilised plant species play a fundamental role in the livelihoods of poor communities living in harsh environments such as mountain areas, although they only have a small share in production and trade. Emmer (Triticum dicoccon) is a typical example of an underutilised species suitable for development in mountain areas; it is important for food security and cultural value and has a...
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