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    Indexing the environmental vulnerability of mountain streams in Azerbaijan.

    International Water Management Institute, 2013
    A simple environmental vulnerability assessment scheme is developed and illustrated using several streams in Azerbaijan as examples. Vulnerability of a river ecosystem is defined in terms of a combined impact of pressure factors such as water withdrawals, pollution, climate change impact on flow variability, and land use.
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    Special Report - water Issues between Nepal, India & Bangladesh: a review of literature

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2010
    After a thorough examination of the available literature on water issues between Bangladesh, India and Nepal, the author has observed that there is an acute lack of scholarly work on issues pertaining to water issues in South Asia. Most of the work available is in the form of newspaper articles. Additionally, the available reports do not provide an objective assessment of water issues.
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    Improved land management in the Lake Victoria basin: annual technical report July 2001 to June 2002

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2002
    This report addresses the challenges of land management in the Lake Victoria basin of East Africa. In 1999 the World Agroforestry Centre launched a major effort to identify, diagnose and reverse degradation in the Lake Victoria basin, focusing primarily on the Kenyan part of the basin.
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    Impact of natural resource management technologies: fertilizer tree fallows in Zambia

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2006
    This paper reviews the impact of an improved fallow fertilizer tree system on lives and landscapes in eastern Zambia. It draws on a number of analyses conducted both by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) staff and by other scientists. The authors describe the diagnosis of problems that led to the use of the fertilizer tree system as an intervention.
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    China in the African solar energy sector

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    Access to reliable and affordable electricity is critical for poverty alleviation and the improvement of livelihoods, including in the areas of education, health, and industrial development in Africa.  However, a combination of factors, such as climate change, insufficient investments, slowness to adopt energy efficiency measures and renewable energy sources and damage due to war and confl
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    The importance of local traditional institutions in the management of natural resources in the highlands of Eastern Africa

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2011
    Traditional local institutions were studied in the highlands of Ethiopia and Tanzania to understand their role in natural resource management. Focus group discussions as well as individual interviews were conducted to identify the existing local institutio ns and their roles. Historical trend analyses were done to determine how the importance of local institutions has changed over the years.
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    Challenges and opportunities for collaborative landscape governance in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2011
    This study aimed to understand how governance of natural resources works at local and district levels in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania, in order to strengthen collaboration among the different actors involved and levels of governance.
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    Livelihood strategies and land ‐ use system dynamics in Southeast Sulawesi

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2012
    The project, Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi: Linking Knowledge with Action the ‘AgFor Sulawesi Project’ has been developed for implementation in 3 provinces of the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi and Gorontalo from 2011 until 2016 to enhance the agroforestry and forestry livelihood systems of rural communities in Sulawesi.
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    Designing an incentive programme to reduce on-­farm deforestation in the East Usambara Mountains,Tanzania

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2012
    The forests of the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania, are internationally recognized as one of the worlds’ most bio-diverse ecosystems. Despite past conservation efforts, these forests face an on-going threat from land clearing for smallholder agriculture and timber harvesting.
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    Agroforestry extension needs at the community level in AgFor project sites in South and Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2012
    The Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi: Linking Knowledge with Action project hereafter referred to as ‘AgFor project’ is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency CIDA . It is being implemented by the World Agroforestry Centre and partners from 2011 to 2016 Roshetko et al. 2012 .

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