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Kangchenjunga Landscape conservation and development strategy and regional cooperation framework
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017The Kangchenjunga Landscape (KL) encompasses a part of eastern Nepal, Sikkim and part of West Bengal in India, and the western and south western parts of Bhutan. It has a total area of 25,086 km2 and elevation range from 40 to 8,586 masl.DocumentMitigating human-wildlife conflict in Nepal: a case study of fences around Chitwan National Park
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017IntroductionDocumentFramework for integrated ecosystem management in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (for pilot testing within transboundary landscapes)
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017Management of ecosystems for sustaining services is a major focus area of the transboundary landscapes programme of ICIMOD.DocumentThe Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A new approach in support of food security and sustainable agriculture
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2014This FAO note gives a brief introduction to the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus conceptual framework as a useful way to describe and address the complex and interrelated nature of our global resource systems. It puts forward WEF as a conceptual approach:DocumentThe rise of environmental crime: a growing threat to natural resources, peace, development and security
United Nations Environment and Development Forum, 2016The environment provides the very foundation of sustainable development, our health, food security and our economies. Ecosystems provide clean water supply, clean air and secure food and ultimately both physical and mental wellbeing.DocumentThe resource bites back: entry-points for addressing corruption in wildlife crime
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2016Corruption has recently risen up the global wildlife conservation agenda with a series of international agreements highlighting the role of corruption in facilitating wildlife crime.DocumentPanama Papers and the looting of Africa
2016On the 3rd of April 2016 the German Newspaper Sud Deutsche Zeitung in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) made an unprecedented release of documents from a database of the Panama based offshor e law firm Mossack Fonseca which is the world’s fourth largest offshore services law firm.DocumentWhose waters? Large-scale agricultural development and water grabbing in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin, Tanzania
Water Alternatives, 2016In Tanzania like in other parts of the global South, in the name of 'development' and 'poverty eradication' vast tracts of land have been earmarked by the government to be developed by investors for different commercial agricultural projects, giving rise to the contested land grab phenomenon.DocumentThe 'Trickle Down' of Integrated Water Resources Management: a case study of local-level realities in the Inkomati Water Management Area, South Africa
Water Alternatives, 2016The historical legacy in South Africa of apartheid and the resulting discriminatory policies and power imbalances are critical to understanding how water is managed and allocated, and how people participate in designated waDocumentThe Complex Politics of Water and Power in Zimbabwe: IWRM in the Catchment Councils of Manyame, Mazowe and Sanyati (1993-2001) - file
Water Alternatives, 2016In the mid - nineties Zimbabwe formed participatory institutions known as catchment a nd sub - catchment councils based on river basins to govern and manage its waters. These councils were initially funded by a range of donors anticipating that they could become self - funding over time through the sale of water.Pages