May 13th, 2010 | Events
The Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research is participating in a series of Side Events at SBSTTA14 to launch and International Partnership carried out by the Satoyama Initiative. “Socio-ecological production landscapes” such as muyong, uma and payoh in the Philippines, mauel in Korea, dehesa in Spain, terroirs in France and other Mediterranean countries, chitemene in northern Malawi [...]
More »March 10th, 2010 | Publications
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has just released a new booklet titled “Carbon Finance Possibilities for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) Projects in a Smallholder Context“. This booklet aims to guide extension service advisors and institutions who work with small-scale farmers and foresters with an interest in carbon [...]
More »March 1st, 2010 | Events, Projects
The Worldwatch Institute’s Sustainable Agriculture Program highlights the benefits to farmers, consumers, and ecosystems that can flow from food systems that are flexible enough to deal with shifting weather patterns, productive enough to meet the needs of expanding populations, and accessible enough to support rural communities. Nourishing the Planet, a Worldwatch Institute project supported by [...]
More »February 16th, 2010 | Events
The CIMO Mountain Research Center and the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal will hold a IUFRO Landscape Ecology Working Group International Conference “Forest Landscapes and Global Change: New Frontiers in Management, Conservation and Restoration” from 21 to 27 September 2010 in Bragança, Portugal. Ongoing changes driven by environmental, technological, political, economic and social factors produce [...]
More »February 2nd, 2010 | Events
Each year 2 February is World Wetlands Day. The theme for this year is on wetlands, biodiversity and climate change, with the 2010 slogan: Caring for wetlands – an answer to climate change. What is World Wetlands Day? It marks the date of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in [...]
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