Resultados de búsqueda - "deforestation"

Biodiversity in an agroecological landscape: Harnessing ecosystem services for agriculture por Krishnan, Abhiram, Sinu, Palatty Allesh, Baby, Ashly, Hariraveendra, M, Viswan, Gopika, Jose, Thomas, Krishnan, Smitha, Maliappan, Sudharsan, Acharya, Pradyumna, Pawar, Manohar

“…In addition to intensive agricultural practices, deforestation for agriculture further degrades ecosystems, disrupting pollinator populations and natural pest control mechanisms. …”
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Toward understanding the scaling out of sustainable land use systems in Colombia: Integrating case study insights and national pathways design for cacao farming por Del Rio Duque, Martha Lilia, Lohr, Katharina, Pérez-Lora, Ángela Patricia, Lana, Marcos, Castro Nunez, Augusto, Sieber, Stefan, Bonatti, Michelle

“…The analysis reveals that key variables, including land availability for agricultural use, water use risk level, deforestation, social conflict, land tenure informality, and agricultural productivity, influence the successful scaling out process across diverse regions. …”
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Restoring Degraded Landscapes for Sustainable Crop Intensification and Improving the Livelihood Security of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Odisha, India por Anantha K.H., Garg, K.K., Venkataradha, A., Barik, Rashmi Ranjan, Singh, Ramesh, Padhee, K.P., Nayak, M., Dhal, N.C., Arthanari, P., Jat, Mangi L.

“…Moreover, rapidly changing land use and deforestation in uplands leads to accelerated land degradation and generates large volume of runoff along with high rate of siltation. …”
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Management of secondary forests in colonist swidden agriculture in Peru, Brazil and Nicaragua por Smith, J., Finegan, B., Sabogal, C., Gonçalves-Ferreira, M.D.S., Siles Gonzales, G., Kop, P. van de, Díaz Barba, A.

“…Recent studies have shown that although swidden agriculture contributes to tropical deforestation in Latin America, swidden farmers also regenerate significant areas of secondary forests on their farms as part of the following process. …”
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Decentralisation of policies affecting forests and estate crops in Kutawaringin Timur district, Central Kalimantan por Casson, A.

“…Although Kotawaringin Timur’s forests still supply 49 percent of Central Kalimantan’s log production and half of its sawn timber and moulding, its forest resources are close to being exhausted. The rate of deforestation and forest degradation in the area is also increasing as the illegal logging trade takes hold. …”
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Carbon forestry: who will benefit?: proceedings of Workshop on Carbon Sequestration and Sustainable Livelihoods, held in Bogor on 16-17 February 2005 por Murdiyarso, Daniel, Herawati, H.

“…These are dealing with issues, such as, avoiding deforestation and adaptation measures for vulnerable ecosystems and communities, who have relatively low adaptive capacity. …”
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Sustaining local livelihoods through carbon sequestration activities: a search for practical and strategic approach por Murdiyarso, Daniel

“…Strategic approaches, such as inclusion of deforestation avoidance in the next round of negotiations and subsequent commitment period, were critically reviewed. …”
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From tree to tea to CO2 in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a framework for analyzing the market chain of fuelwood around Kinshasa and Kisangani por Schure, J., Ingram, V.J., Awono, A., Binzangi, K.

“…Recently however, especially around the big cities in Central Africa, the supply of firewood and charcoal has become associated with environmental issues, such as deforestation, contributing to vicious circles of soil erosion and climate change (Brown, Cabarle et al., 1997; White, Cannell et al., 1999) . …”
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Value chain analysis of furniture: action research to improve power balance and enhance livelihoods of small-scale producers por Purnomo, H., Achdiawan, R., Parlinah, N., Irawati, R.H., Melati

“…At international level, we are comparing this study with lesson learned from value chains of bamboo in China, honey bee in Zambia, potential for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) credit in Indonesia, and palm heart/ palmito in Brazil.…”
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From conflict of use to multiple use: forest management innovations by small holders in Amazonian logging frontiers por Shanley, P., Serra Silva, M. da, Melo, T., Carmenta, R., Nasi, Robert

“…Pará is situated in the Brazilian “arc of deforestation” and the state accounts for 47% of all timber produced in the Legal Amazon. …”
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Environmental and social Impacts from palm based biofuel development in Indonesia por Andriani, R., Andrianto, A., Komarudin, Heru, Obidzinski, K.

“…The development of oil palm in all three sites has caused deforestation and is likely to lead to further loss of forest as expansion continue to take place. …”
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Towards sustainable biofuel development: Assessing the local impacts of large-scale foreign land acquisitions in Ghana por Schoneveld, George C., German, L., Nutakor, E.

“…The development of oil palm in all three sites has caused deforestation and is likely to lead to further loss of forest as expansion continue to take place. …”
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Micro watershed to basin scale impacts of widespread adoption of watershed management interventions in Blue Nile Basin por Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele, Tenaw, Mequanint

“…High population pressure, inappropriate agricultural policies, improper land-use planning, over-dependency on agriculture as source of livelihood and extreme dependence on natural resources are inducing deforestation, overgrazing, expansion of agriculture to marginal lands and steep slopes, declining agricultural productivity and resource-use conflicts in many parts of Blue Nile. …”
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Synthesis of local knowledge on drivers of tree cover change in the Blue Nile basin por Cronin, M., Lamond, G., Balaguer, F., Venturini, F., Sida, T., Pagella, Tim, Sinclair, Fergus L.

“…Local knowledge revealed that all three sites suffered from rapid deforestation of native tree cover over the last 20 years. …”
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Scaling up agroforestry to achieve food security and environmental protection among smallholder farmers in Malawi por Beedy, Tracy, Ajayi, Oluyede C., Sileshi, Gudeta W., Kundhlande G, Chiundu G, Simons AJ

“…Increasing population, accelerating deforestation, poor soil and water management, and increasing poverty and land degradation directly impact the food security and human health of millions of Malawians. …”
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Hydrological consequences of armed conflicts and massive migrations in the Lower Mekong Basin over the second half of the 20th Century. [Abstract only]. por Lacombe, Guillaume, Pierret, Alain, Hoanh, Chu Thai, Sengtaheuanghoung, Oloth

“…These results illustrate the high responsiveness of flow regime to forest cover changes in tropical areas where deforestation is expected to perpetuate at a high rate over the coming decades.…”
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Assessment of farmers' view on the current use of manure around Holetta Agric.Res. Center por Kumsa, T., Madsen, J.O., Tegegne, Azage

“…Natural forests that used to support the firewood requirement of the rural society in the past disappeared as a result of intensified deforestation in the quest for expansion cf croplands to feed the growing population. …”
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Winner or loser of climate change? A modeling study of current and future climatic suitability of Arabica coffee in Indonesia por Schroth, Götz, Läderach, Peter R.D., Blackburn Cuero, Diana Sofia, Neilson, Jeffrey, Bunn, Christian

“…However, this forced adaptation process could become a major driver of deforestation in the highlands. We highlight the need for public and private policies to encourage the expansion of coffee farms into areas that will remain suitable over the medium term, that are not under legal protection, and that are already deforested so that coffee farming could make a positive contribution to landscape restoration.…”
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Runoff and sediment monitoring in an agricultural watershed in the Ethiopian Highlands por Zehetbauer I, Strohmeier S, Ziadat, Feras M., Klik, Andreas

“…Land degradation due to soil erosion is a major issue in the Ethiopian Highlands. Deforestation leads to ongoing gully erosion during the rainy season (June to September) and thus the hydrology of a watershed changes as dense gully networks cause direct drainage of rain water. …”
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Major atmospheric emissions from peat fires in Southeast Asia during non-drought years: evidence from the 2013 Sumatran fires por Gaveau, D.L.A., Salim, Mohammad A., Hergoualc'h, Kristell, Locatelli, Bruno, Sloan, Sean, Wooster, Martin, Marlier, Miriam E., Molidena, Elis, Yaen, Husana, DeFries, Ruth S., Verchot, Louis V., Murdiyarso, Daniel, Nasi, Robert, Holmgren, Peter, Sheil, Douglas

“…We expect major haze events to be increasingly frequent because of ongoing deforestation of Indonesian peatlands.…”
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