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  Natural resource governance at multiple scales in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017

  Human efforts to address poverty, enhance welfare, and conserve natural resources and the environment often fail because of faulty governance and implementation. Improvements in governance are consistently viewed as means to address the failures of sustainable development and natural resource management.
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  The State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean: a mid-term review of progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2016

  Global Biodiversity Outlook-4, the mid-term review of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, provided a global assessment of progress towards the attainment of the Plan’s global biodiversity goalsand associated Aichi Biodiversity Targets, but contained limited regional information.
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  The State of Biodiversity in Asia and the Pacific: a mid-term review of progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2016

  Global Biodiversity Outlook-4 (GBO-4), the mid-term review of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, provided a global assessment of progress towards the attainment of the Plan’s global biodiversity goals and associated Aichi Biodiversity Targets, but contained limited regional information.
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  The State of Biodiversity in West Asia: a mid-term review of progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2016

  Global Biodiversity Outlook-4 (GBO-4), the mid-term review of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 , published by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), provides a global assessment of progress towards the attainment of the Plan’s biodiversity goals and associated twenty Aichi Biodiversity Targets, but contains limited regional information.
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  Seeds of adaptation: climate change, crop diversification, and the role of women farmers

  2015

  Around the world, women farmers are taking a leading role in implementing strategies aimed at crop variety conservation and diversification, with the goal of strengthening local climate change adaptation capacities. That is the message conveyed in this gender brief by the Center for International Forestry Research.
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  Plant variety protection in developing countries: A tool for designing a Sui Generis plant variety protection system: An alternative to UPOV 1991

  2015

  A new tool to assist developing countries in designing a “custom made” plant variety protection suitable for the seed and agricultural systems that prevail in developing countries has been published by an international group of NGOs.   It was presented on the occasion of the Sixth Meeting of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food
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  Climate adapted vilages. The Development Fund's model for local climate adaptation. Honduras

  Development Fund, Norway, 2015

  The Climate Adapted Villages model aims to make farmers and local communities capable of organizing themselves, identifying climate threats and practicing climate smart agriculture, enabling them to adapt to the current consequences of a changing climate.
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  From Brazilian fields to Norwegian farms

  Norwegian Church Aid, 2014

  • Brazil has a Federal Constitution and consolidated legislation that provide for the protection of the environment, health and welfare of workers in rural areas.
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  Seeds without borders

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2011

  This policy brief reviews, reflects and discusses the challenges from the perspectives of technological, organisational, institutional, regulatory, and policy frameworks within the variety development-seed production-seed use continuum.
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  High-altitude rangelands and their interfaces in the Hindu Kush Himalayas

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2013

  The interfaces between high-altitude rangelands and other ecosystems in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region such as forests, wetlands, and agricultural land are suffering from degradation, desertification, and soil erosion, which are further aggravated by climatic and anthropogenic factors.

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