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    Sustainable land management and agroecology practices
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2018
    Eritrea, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, South Africa, Gambia, Nigeria, Barbados, Cuba, China, Mongolia, Armenia

    As of 2017, SGP has awarded over 3,800 small grants to land degradation projects in over 120 countries, many of which are in regions with extreme levels of poverty and food insecurity across Africa and Latin America. Africa, in particular, is experiencing the highest population growth of the developing world, while being exposed and vulnerable to the rising impact from climate change.

  2. Library Resource
    January, 2008
    Nepal, Mauritania, Mali, China, Uzbekistan, India, Chad, Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Southern Asia

    Across vast areas of the world, human activity has degraded once fertile and productive land. Deforestation, overgrazing, continuous farming and poor irrigation practices have affected almost 2 billion hectares worldwide, threatening the health and livelihoods of over one billion people. In this edition of New Agriculturist, a collection of articles explores some of the approaches and policies that can help to successfully rehabilitate degraded land.

  3. Library Resource
    CIAT in Asia cover image
    Institutional & promotional materials
    April, 2017
    Asia, China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Vietnam, Southern Asia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal

    With more than 60 percent of Asian population either directly or indirectly relying on agriculture for livelihood, agriculture remains key to uplifting lives of many people in the region, as well as to providing sufficient and nutritious food for all.

    In Asia, CIAT undertakes scientific research enabling smallholder farmers, agri-food businesses, and national governments to use smart technologies and innovations and make evidence-based decisions, towards achieving profitability, environmental sustainability and resiliency in agriculture.

  4. Library Resource

    Food, Farms and Fields in China 2030

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2012
    China, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    China's success in addressing food problems after adopting the reforms in 1978 has been nothing less than remarkable. Grain output (rice, wheat and maize) has almost doubled and most hunger has been eliminated. Ever since China embarked on its reform agenda more than 30 years ago, its economic growth and poverty reduction have been nothing less than remarkable. Agriculture has been an important contributor to these developments.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    November, 2014
    China

    China has a longstanding tradition of using biogas for decentralised energy supply. Already, there are nearly 42 million household digesters in the rural areas, a figure set to double by 2020. But the country has even more ambitious plans. In order to achieve its own climate targets and raise the share of renewables in overall energy supply to 15 per cent by 2020, it wants to set up 16,000 middle- and large-scale biogas plants. However, implementation isn’t quite so easy.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2007
    Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, China

    A research paper by Jochen Hinkel and Timo Menniken on institutional adaptation to the effects of climate change in management of transboundary river basins, published in 2007 by Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrueck.

  7. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    China, Gabon

    Rapid economic growth in China has
    boosted its demand for commodities. At the same time, many
    commodity sectors have experienced declining demand from
    high-income northern economies. This paper examines two
    hypotheses of the consequences of this shift in final
    markets for the organization of global value chains in
    general, and for the role played in them by southern
    producers in particular. The first is that there will be a

  8. Library Resource
    China Forest Policy : Deepening the Transition, Broadening the Relationship cover image
    Reports & Research
    March, 2012
    China

    A pattern of forest area loss followed
    by a period of reforestation is representative of the forest
    transition process. Forest transition has been observed in
    many countries and is a feature of the development process.
    China reached its inflection point earlier and faster than
    most other countries that have gone through the transition.
    The report describes the success of reforms to forest
    resource tenure in collective forest areas. These reforms,

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2013
    China

    Ningbo serves as the Chinese pilot city
    for the World Bank Climate Resilient Cities (CRC) Program.
    The CRC program aims to, prepare local governments in the
    East Asia region to better understand the concepts and
    consequences of climate change; how climate change
    consequences contribute to urban vulnerabilities; and what
    is being done by city governments in East Asia and around
    the world to actively engage in learning capacity building,

  10. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2013
    China

    Ningbo serves as the Chinese pilot city
    for the World Bank Climate Resilient Cities (CRC) Program.
    The CRC program aims to, prepare local governments in the
    East Asia region to better understand the concepts and
    consequences of climate change; how climate change
    consequences contribute to urban vulnerabilities; and what
    is being done by city governments in East Asia and around
    the world to actively engage in learning capacity building,

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