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The star anise fruit resembles stars: the Thach Ngoa group has five hectares of Illicium verum trees ready for harvest (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Star spice in Vietnam's forests
… system, in a way that will help them both mitigate and adapt to climate change. Building locally-controlled forest business models of this type …
Insight, 05 August 2015
UN food treaty on plant genetic resources must protect farmers’ rights
… and so limiting the options farmers have to adapt to a changing climate, which has implications for global food security." The FAO …
News, 14 March 2011
Mountains, forests and rice paddies in Nepal. Photo: Sajal Sthapit
Forest businesses 'fit for life'
… income generation, gender equity, food security, energy security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity conservation and soil conservation without …
Insight, 18 February 2013
UN agency ignores indigenous approach to knowledge protection
… and would limit the abilities of poor communities to adapt to climate change through, for instance, sharing climate-resilient plant varieties. IIED and partner organisations in …
News, 29 June 2009
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PLA 66 - Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods
… Islands has generated multiple benefits, including ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change. How a modified form of scoring, used within a livelihoods …
Article, 31 August 2013
United Nations decision prompts potato celebration in Peru
… because intellectual property rights, neoliberal development models, climate change and genetically modified crops all pose threats to the culture, … and return them to the communities who can use them to support local adaptation systems," said Alejandro Argumedo, director of Asociacion …
News, 31 October 2007
Sub Saharan African woman drying fish. Photo: Patrick Dugan via WorldFish on Flickr
The missing 't'
… and shocks such as food shortages and reduced adaptive capacity to climate change. Source: Data extracted from World Resource Institute database; …
Insight, 13 July 2010
Green shoots and REDD herrings
… vital moves towards locally controlled forestry, viable forest-based climate strategies and practical forest governance. Locally-controlled … that marginalise rather than empower forest people. Securing climate change mitigation and, equally importantly, adaptation from forestry is tricky where few other forest goods and …
Insight, 15 October 2009
Coral Reef. Economists at the BioEcon conference Credit: Magnus Manske (creative commons)
The value of valuing ecosystem services
… is a need to understand what determines the costs of agriculture adaptation to climate change, and see who wins and who loses? Perhaps the interest is to …
Insight, 28 September 2012
A Raika man leading his sheep and goats to graze in the contested Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary.
How communities are protecting their biocultural resources with community protocols
… strengthen biodiversity conservation efforts by communities, support climate change adaptation, and help to establish long-term partnerships between …
Insight, 02 October 2012