livelihood
Illegal logging in Ghana is partly a problem of poverty. Changing the policy environment — especially enforcement to combat illegal logging — has proved to be important over the years, but needs to be complemented by offering alternative income opportunities to illegal activities to...
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the session "Andean communities in the face of global change" (see attachment) which Wageningen University and Research Centre propose together with Giuseppe Feola at the Resilience 2014 Conference taking place 4-8...
In the most vulnerable regions of our planet, the impacts of extreme weather events such as floods and droughts threaten lives and livelihoods. The most affected regions include large deltas, small islands, and exposed coastal regions, as well as arid and semiarid lands,...
This two-week e-conference organised by ICIMOD and the Mountain Forum was conducted in two parts. In the first week the focus was on establishing how important socio-cultural settings are. The second session, under the theme of 'Bridging Gaps', turned more to questions of practice....
The e-conference, Mountain to Mountain Cooperation: Sustainable use of biodiversity, including genetic resources, in the Himal-Andes, (12-30 June 2006) represented a significant step in furthering inter-regional and intra-regional cooperation and of building new and strengthening existing alliances for sustainable mountain development within the framework of the Mountain Partnership. The...
