Items in the category "Natural resources management"
[Document] In this paper/presentation addressing CG perspectives in research on agro-biodiversity, the focus and emphasis is on the plant dimension of agricultural biodiversity, with particular emphasis on the in situ conservation and on-farm management and use of agro-biodiversity.
[Document] The problems being addressed in this session are related to ensuring global food and nutrition security, as well as promoting resilience in production systems and delivering ecosystem services through agricultural biodiversity. Whole landscape management approaches embody biodiversity management,...
[Document] Communities worldwide have begun adopting integrated landscape management approaches that work deliberately to support food production, ecosystem conservation and rural livelihoods across landscapes mosaics. While researchers working on landscape and ecosystem processes fully recognize the...
[Document] AIRCA will bring an integrated and holistic approach to solving development problems at a landscape scale through the mobilisation of nine agricultural R&D centres with a wealth of expertise across a range of ecosystem types and crops. AIRCA’s members have a demonstrated ability to...
[Document] The adaptation and adoption of conservation agriculture (CA)-based crop management through innovative techniques like reduced soil movement, adequate surface retention of crop residues and economically viable and diversified crop rotations are the way forward to address the emerging challenges...
[Document] In the region of central Asia and Caucasus (CAC), collection, assessment and sharing of information on water and land resources, previously under central command of the Soviet Union, have been fragmented during the past decades. In fact, the regional program has supplemented an important role in...
[Document] The CGIAR Research Program No. 6: Forests, Trees and Agroforestry: Livelihoods, Landscapes and Governance (CRP6), brings together four of the world’s leading research centers in their respective subjects: the World Agroforestry Centre, CIFOR, CIAT and Bioversity International —...
[Document] The Water, Land and Ecosystems Program addresses the dangers facing development in a world of finite resources. Its goals are: sustainable intensification; to improve the sharing of benefits and risks on which our future depends; to support the political discourse that underpins a long-term,...
[Document] Looking for quality improvement of No Till system at the farmer level as a goal, FEBRAPDP and ITAIPU BINACIONAL developed a participatory methodology for assessing the quality of the Conservation Agriculture in the Paraná 3 basin.
[Document] Enhancing diversity through the use of neglected, underutilized crops and species will not only diversify agro-ecosystems and rotations, but also likely to improve adaptability to extreme climatic conditions, provide resilience to biotic and abiotic stresses and produce harvestable yields where...
[Document] Background document for the GFAR Steering Committee meeting in Montevideo (August 2008): the Declaration of the High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy (Rome, June 2008)
[Document] A CGIAR Science Council Policy Statement on Biofuels Production
[Document] Statement from GFAR to the FAO High Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy, Rome, 3-5 June 2008. On behalf of the global community for research for development, GFAR calls on all people of the world to take stock of the central importance of...
[Document] FAO on Conservation Agriculture. PowerPoint presentation at the Programme Committee on 28/11/2007 during the GFAR Statutory Meetings, Bejing, China, 28/11/2007-01/12/2007.
[Document] NTFP GPP progress report 2007. PowerPoint presentation at the Programme Committee on 28/11/2007 during the GFAR Statutory Meetings, Bejing, China, 28/11/2007-01/12/2007.
[Document] Conservation Agriculture GPP report 2007. PowerPoint presentation at the Programme Committee on 28/11/2007 during the GFAR Statutory Meetings, Bejing, China, 28/11/2007-01/12/2007.
[Document] Report on FAO-GFAR collaboration 2007. PowerPoint presentation at the Programme Committee on 28/11/2007 during the GFAR Statutory Meetings, Bejing, China, 28/11/2007-01/12/2007.
[Document] The program of the meeting tried to answer the following questions being the main workshop objectives: a) To discuss how bioenergy production may have an impact on global and regional food security and the sustainability of key agricultural systems in Asia; b) To summarize current understanding of...
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[Document] Most of the plants which are cultivated worldwide have healthy effects and have been increasingly used by people suffering from various diseases. Therefore these plants can be considered as medicinal ones. Olives and date palms have similar effects. With regard to cotton and post harvest products...
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[Document] A Global Partnership Programme is being built on the initiative of NGOs concerned with agricultural research and development. With the support of IFAD (Inter-national Fund for Agricultural Development), NGOs in three countries in Africa ¿ Ethiopia, Ghana and Uganda ¿ have already started a process...
[Document] PROmoting Local INNOVAtion in ecologically-oriented agriculture and natural resource management. Overall Objective: The GP-PROLINNOVA is designed to strengthen research and development partnerships and methodology to promote processes of local innovation in ecologically-oriented agriculture and...
[Document] llMainstream agricultural research has focused primarily on technical and biophysical aspects and is aimed at controlling or manipulating nature through the use of external inputs, such as agricultural chemicals, or through genetic improvement of crops and livestock. The results of this research...
[Document] PROLINNOVA is envisaged as a learning network on ways to promote local innovation in ecologicallyoriented agriculture and natural resource management (EA/NRM). The focus will be on learning from and encouraging field activities that strengthen the capacities of smallholders, livestock-keepers and...
