Climate Change

Partners with nature: how healthy ecosystems are helping the worlds most vulnerable adapt to climate change

This report includes 14 case studies from different countries around the world. They provide compelling evidence of the roles that ecosystems play in climate change adaptation through protecting the natural resource base, providing alternative livelihood options, and maintaining resilience to future climate

Publication Date: 
01/01/2010
Melanie Heath, Joanna Phillips, Robert Munroe
BirdLife International
Tags:
Ecosystems, Forests, Wetlands, Agroforestry, Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, Climate Adaptation, Biosphere Reserves, Biodiversity, UK, Global, South Asia, Melanie Heath, Joanna Phillips, Robert Munroe, BirdLife International
Climate Change

FAO profile for climate change

With this Profile for Climate Change, FAO outlines its priorities for its current and future work on climate change. FAO

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
FAO
Tags:
Agriculture, Agroforestry, Green House Gases, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, FAO, Food Security
Forests

Haryana plans to promote agro-forestry system

Haryana Government has envisaged a plan to promote agro forestry system in the State under which seedlings of various species of economically important trees would be planted on farm land by the forest department and incentive would be given to the farmers at the rate of Rs 2 and Rs 3 for the second and third year respectively.

Publication Date: 
18/11/2009
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forests, Agroforestry, Nahar SA, Haryana, Rewari (D)
Forests

Sustainable forest management, biodiversity and livelihoods: a good practice guide

This booklet provides a range of case studies and other materials to make the forest sector more biodiversity-friendly, and socially beneficial.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2009
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Tags:
Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD), Forests, Ecosystem Services, Agroforestry, Forest Management, Forest Products, Protected Area Conservation, Biodiversity
Forests

Expanding plantations shrink forest cover?

Coffee Board chief wants good tree cover over estates

Demand may exceed production in five years from now

CHIKMAGALUR: G.V. Krishna Rau, chairman of the Coffee Board, said on Saturday that tree cover in 1,20,000 hectares of land in the Western Ghats region had been reduced because of expansion of coffee plantations between 1980 and 2000.

Publication Date: 
13/10/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forests, Western Ghats, Agroforestry, Plantation Crops, Coffee, Karnataka, Chikmagalur (D)
Climate Change

Carbon sequestration with special reference to agroforestry in cold deserts of Ladakh

Global warming risks from emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) by anthropogenic activities have increased the need for the identification of ecosystems with high carbon sink capacity as an alternative mitigation strategy of terrestrial carbon sequestration. The agroforestry sector has received recent attention for its enormous potential carbon pools that reduce carbon emissions to the atmosphere. The Nubra Valley (Trans-Himalayan region) is covered with more than 575,000 agroforestry plantations (willow and poplar). These species have been found to sequester more than 75,000 tonnes of carbon.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
10/10/2009
G. Phani Kumar, Ashutosh A. Murkute, Sunil Gupta & et al
Current Science
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Deserts, Trans Himalaya, Agroforestry, Poplar, Willow, Climate Change, Biomass, Carbon Sinks, Carbon Sequestration, Ladakh
Land

Rehabilitation of degraded lands

JORHAT, Oct 8: The agro-forestry and eco-development scientist of Rain Forest Research Institute (RFRI), Pawan K Kaushik raised his voice to implement a new policy on eco-rehabilitation of degraded jhum land addressing the socio-cultural issues and incorporating benefits of recent technological developments to improve upon the jhum practice widely prevalent in the Northeast.

Publication Date: 
09/10/2009
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Land Degradation, Shifting Cultivation, Agroforestry, Rehabilitation
Forests

Creating forestry jobs to boost the economy and build a green future

Targeted public investment in forestry could generate about 10 million new jobs around the world.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
C.T.S. Nair, R. Rutt
Unasylva
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Forests, Agroforestry, Forest Conservation, Forest Fires, Afforestation, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, Unemployment
Climate Change

Responding to the threat

The world

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
Gerald Nelson
Development And Cooperation
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0
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Agriculture, Agroforestry, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, Farmers, Benefit Sharing, Knowledge, Food Security
Climate Change

Community answers to climate chaos: getting climate justice from the UNFCCC

Using examples of work taking place throughout the developing world, the report argues for a stronger role for civil society and community organisations in the global response to climate chaos, and the need for rich countries to foot the bill via a new funding body.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2009
Christian Aid
Tags:
UNFCCC, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Climate Change, Energy, Poverty, Community Groups, India, Developing Countries

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