The impacts of a warming world are affecting food production in every corner of the globe. From shifting rainfall patterns and growing seasons, to more frequent and extreme droughts and floods, to increasingly severe pest and disease outbreaks among crops and livestock, farming as we know it is u...
Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Birch, James
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Meza, Laura
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Sunga, Ishmael
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Bong, Bui Ba
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Rabbinge, Rudy
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Reddy, Matthew
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Dinesh, Dhanush
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Korner, Jana
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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Millan, Alberto
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Hansen, James
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Huyer, Sophia
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Feeding the World in a Changing Climate: An Adaptation Roadmap for Agriculture]
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Feeding the World in a Changing Climate: An Adaptation Roadmap for Agriculture
This paper looks into the causes contributing to the development of dairy imports in Nigeria. The first part of the paper provides a brief background on the overall patterns of agricultural and livestock production, dairy imports, domestic milk production as well as milk consumption. The second p...
Tukahirwa, J.M.B.
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[Policies, people and land use change in Uganda: a case study in Ntungamo, Lake Mburo and Sango Bay sites]
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Policies, people and land use change in Uganda: a case study in Ntungamo, Lake Mburo and Sango Bay sites
The erosion of genetic resources and hence diversity continues at an alarming pace. Simultaneously, technologies which develop and make use of these resources outpace the ability of laws and societies to understand and cope with them. Spurred by technological advances, appreciation of the monetar...
Bragdon, S.
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Downes, D.
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[Recent policy trends and developments related to the conservation, use and development of genetic resources]
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Recent policy trends and developments related to the conservation, use and development of genetic resources
Bioversity International trabaja con una amplia gama de asociados internacionales y nacionales para aplicar el Tratado Internacional sobre los Recursos Fitogenéticos para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (TIRFAA) y el Protocolo de Nagoya del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica de forma que se ...
Programa conjunto de creacion de capacidad
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[Aplicacion del Tratado Internacional sobre los Recursos Fitogeneticos y el Protocolo de Nagoya de forma que se respalden mutuamente: Casos practicos para su consideracion por parte de los coordinadores nacionales y otras partes interesadas.]
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Aplicacion del Tratado Internacional sobre los Recursos Fitogeneticos y el Protocolo de Nagoya de forma que se respalden mutuamente: Casos practicos para su consideracion por parte de los coordinadores nacionales y otras partes interesadas.
Maggioni, L.
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Turok, J.
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Smith, M.
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Weibull, J.
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Mulvany, P.
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Batlle, I.
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Spellman, O.
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European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources
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[Report of the Steering Committee: Eight meeting, 14-17 October 2001, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation]
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Report of the Steering Committee: Eight meeting, 14-17 October 2001, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
This report provides highlights from a workshop entitled “Embedding mutually supportive implementation of the Plant Treaty and the Nagoya Protocol in the context of broader national policy goals. A workshop for national teams of policy actors”. The workshop brought together eleven national teams ...
ABS Capacity Development Initiative
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Bioversity International
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[Imbrication de la mise en oeuvre concertée et solidaire du Traité sur les ressources phytogénétiques et du Protocole de Nagoya dans le conexte d’objetifs de politiques nationales plus larges: un atelier destine à des équipes nationales d’acteurs de politiques]
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Imbrication de la mise en oeuvre concertée et solidaire du Traité sur les ressources phytogénétiques et du Protocole de Nagoya dans le conexte d’objetifs de politiques nationales plus larges: un atelier destine à des équipes nationales d’acteurs de politiques
The Convention on Biological Diversity calls for benefits flowing from the use of biological diversity to be shared with the country of origin of the material. In the main, discussions around benefit sharing have focused on monetary benefits, with the sharing of such benefits often seen as a prec...
Raymond, R.
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Fowler, Cary
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International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
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[Sharing the non-monetary benefits of agricultural biodiversity]
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Sharing the non-monetary benefits of agricultural biodiversity
The role of local and external institutions in natural resource management (NRM) is gaining attention in the literature, fostering greater understanding of the relationship between collective action and poverty, collective action and equity, and the conditions under which collective action instit...
German, L.
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Ayele, Seife
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Tanui, J.
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Nyangas, S.
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Taye, H.
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Admassu, Z.
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Mazengia, W.
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Tirwomwe, W.
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Begashaw, L.
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Tsegaye, M.
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Alinyo, F.
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Mekonnen, A.
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Aberra, K.
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Chemangeni, A.
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Cheptegei, W.
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Tolera, T.
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Jotte, Z.
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Bedane, K.
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[Enabling equitable collective action and policy change for poverty reduction and improved natural resource management in the Eastern African highlands]
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Enabling equitable collective action and policy change for poverty reduction and improved natural resource management in the Eastern African highlands
This background paper summaries the issues raised by the Kyoto Protocol as background information for discussion aimed at assessing whether joint implementation (JI) and the clean development mechanism (CDM) are opportunities for forest sustainable management through carbon sequestration projects...
Mulongoy, K.J.
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Smith, J.
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Alirol, P.
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Witthoeft-Muehlmann, A.
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[Are joint implementation and the clean development mechanism opportunities for forest sustainable management through carbon sequestration projects?]
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Are joint implementation and the clean development mechanism opportunities for forest sustainable management through carbon sequestration projects?