Climate change

Climate change impacts on glaciers and runoff in Tien Shan (Central Asia)

Climate-driven changes in glacier-fed streamflow regimes have direct implications on freshwater supply, irrigation and hydropower potential. Reliable information about current and future glaciation and runoff is crucial for water allocation, a complex task in Central Asia, where the collapse of the Soviet Union has transformed previously interdependent republics into autonomous upstream and downstream countries. Although …

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Environment, hydrometeorology and ecosystems

A Global Initiative on Landscapes for People, Food and Nature

Project Objective: to promote and support the broader adoption and more effective use of landscape-level sustainable land management (L-SLM; see Figure 1) as an integrated approach to managing agricultural landscapes that addresses the full set of needs from the rural land base—including sustainable, climate-resilient production of food and fiber (from agriculture, forestry, and fisheries), watershed …

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Trade, markets and food

AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center annual report 2012

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