Search Results - "Forestry"

Skötsel av tätortsnära skogliga rekreationsområden : besökares upplevelser i norra och södra Sverige by Sandström, Emma

“…People with education from forestry or being forest owners, were larger at Nydalasjön compared to the visitors at Härlanda tjärn. …”

1900- talets skogsbruk i kronoparksskogar : en skogshistorisk studie om Håckren och Bjurfors kronoparker by Prestberg, Therese

Resource book: Earth observation and climate data analysis for agricultural drought monitoring in South Asia by Qamer, Faisal M., Krupnik, Timothy J., Pandey, Pradyumna R., Ahmad, Bashir

“…In South Asia, a large majority of people lives in rural areas and depends on agriculture, forestry, fisheries and livestock. These livelihood sources are highly vulnerable to climate induced hazards such as erratic precipitation, floods and droughts, as well as market price volatility. …”
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Cryopreservation and In Vitro banking: a cool subject – Preface from the editors by Ochatt, Sergio, Lambardi, Maurizio, Panis, Bartholomeus, Pathirana, Ranjith, Revilla, Maria Angeles, Wang, Qiao-Chun

“…Such “synthetic seeds” proved to be of great value in the medium- (slow-growth storage) and long-term (cryopreservation) conservation of germplasm of fruit, ornamental, horticultural and forestry species in small spaces. However, more research is still needed. …”
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The context of REDD+ in Indonesia: Drivers, agents and institutions [Update edition] by Dwisatrio, B., Said, Z., Permatasari, A.P., Maharani, C., Moeliono, M., Wijaya, A., Lestari, A.A., Yuwono, J., Pham Thu Thuy

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Commune-level institutional arrangements and monitoring framework for integrated tree-based landscape management by Vu, T.P., Nguyen, V.T., Do, T.H.

“…It is also considered critical to the successful implementation of land-based climate mitigation, such as under Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), because the Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sector is included in the mitigation contributions of nearly 90 percent of countries in Sub-Saharan and Southern Asia countries and in the Latin American and Caribbean regions (FAO 2016).…”
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Financing climate change mitigation in agriculture: Assessment of investment cases by Khatri-Chhetri, Arun, Sapkota, Tek Bahadur, Sander, Bojern O., Arango, Jacobo, Nelson, Katherine, Wilkes, Andreas

“…These investment cases expand support for existing agricultural best practices, integrate forestry and agricultural actions to avoid land-use change, and support the transition to market-based solutions.…”
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Tìm hiểu về quản trị rừng ngập mặn: Các phương pháp và hướng dẫn nghiên cứu by Pham Thu Thuy, Mwangi, E., Vu, T.P., Hoang, T.L.

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Streamlining climate change, climate risk management in Agriculture, climate information services, and climate-smart agriculture innovations into undergraduate university curriculu... by Belay, Berhanu, Ambaw, Gebermedihin, Amha, Yosef, Makonnen, Brook T., Solomon, Dawit

“…Its vulnerability is further exacerbated due to the high poverty level and its dependence on key sectors most likely affected by climate change: agriculture, water, tourism, and forestry. The country is considered a climate hotspot where climate change poses grave threats to human well-being and natural environments. …”
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Participatory rangeland management-an enabling process for improving silvopastoral management and governance by Flintan, Fiona E.

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Grazing with trees: A silvopastoral approach to managing and restoring drylands by Haddad, Fidaa, Herrera, Pedro, Besbes, Badi

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Climate Risk Management for Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change by Baethgen, Walter E.

“…The agricultural and forestry sectors can play a key role in both paths. …”
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Forest landscape restoration: A comparison of two participatory approaches by Colfer, C.J.P., Prabhu, R.

“…CIFOR’s version of SFM included equal parts forestry, ecology and human well-being, and in this case focused on the community level. …”
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New e-learning course to tackle complex challenges of managing dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral systems by Carleton, Elliot, Louhaichi, Mounir, Flintan, Fiona

“…a blog about the e-learning course, "Transforming Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems" introduced by The Committee on Forestry Working Group on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems (COFO-WG) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). the course is designed to address challenges faced by these ecosystems covering 41% of the global land area. …”
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Pembelajaran dari Aksi Restorasi Gambut Berbasis Masyarakat di Indonesia dan Asia Tenggara by Purnomo, H., Puspitaloka, D., Junandi, B., Juniyanti, L., Dharmawan, I.W.S.

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The Community-Based Restoration Monitoring System (CBRMS): A guide to using CBRMS in peatland restoration monitoring by Okarda, B., Basuki, I., Baral, H.

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The Organization of a Small-Country Agricultural Research System with Broad Research Demands: Institutional Diversity in Honduras by Contreras, Mario

“…These include the crop and livestock research departments of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the research units of commodity institutes such as the Instituto Hondureño del Café (IHCAFE), for coffee, and the Centro Nacional de Invcstgación Forestal Aplicada (CENIFA), for forestry. The private sector plays a crucial role with the participation of the Fundación Hondureiña de Investigación Agrícola (FHIA) and the research departments of two private agro-export multinationals. …”
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Does agricultural official development assistance facilitate foreign direct investment in agriculture: Evidence from 63 developing countries by Tian, Junyan

“…Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood estimations reveal that agricultural ODA considerably promotes FDI in the agriculture, fishery and forestry sectors (FDI_aff) by approximately 0.5%, while its impact on FDI in the food, beverages and tobacco industries (FDI_fbt) is overall insignificant. …”
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Informal cross-border trade in Africa by Bouët, Antoine, Cissé, Brahima, Traoré, Fousseini

“…We present two interesting initiatives that are intended to assess the phenomenon of ICBT in African regions: (1) an initiative coordinated by the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (Comité permanent Inter-État de Lutte contre la Sécheresse au Sahel, abbreviated as CILSS) and implemented by the West African Association for Cross-Border Trade in Agro-forestry-pastoral and Fisheries Products - (AOCTAH, Association Ouest Africaine du Commerce Transfrontalier des produits Alimentaires, Agro-sylvo-pastoraux et Halieutiques) that measures informal/unrecorded trade in agricultural commodities in West Africa; and (2) an initiative designed by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBoS) and Bank of Uganda (BoU) which assesses informal/unrecorded trade in agricultural and industrial commodities at Uganda’s borders with its neighboring countries.…”
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How to prevent and cope with coincidence of risks to the global food system by Fan, Shenggen, Cho, Emily EunYoung, Meng, Ting, Rue, Christopher

“…Climate change, extreme weather events, and degradation and depletion of natural resources, including water, arable, forestry, and pastural lands, loss of biodiversity, emerging diseases, trade chokepoints and disruptions, macroeconomic shocks, and conflicts, can each seriously disrupt the system. …”
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