Risorse Tagged: Deforestation

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  1. One Shot - Trees as Our Last Chance for Survival

    04/04/2017 Over the last forty years, entire countries have been stripped of a primary natural resource: trees. Most of this deforestation occurred to make room for agriculture. Yet, in the coming decade, there will be nearly two billion undernourished people.There is a constant pressure to trade more...
    Deforestation Tree Propagation

  2. Rainforest Politics: Ecological Destruction in South-East Asia

    01/01/1990 In each of these six case studies-the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Thailand and Burma- the author sets out the environmental, human and economic consequences of forest destruction. He shows how its causes are rooted in an exploitation of natural resources for Western...
    Deforestation Rainforest Southeast Asia Rain Forest Conser... Ecology Lumber

  3. Farmers are cherishing their trees again

    Success stories from Niger, China and Ethiopia have proven that it takes less than 20 years to turn deforested and depleted soil back to green and fertile land, giving its people a future again. Ensuring farmers ownership of trees and land is crucial. Cooperation, knowledge and a long-term vision...
    Trees Deforestation

  4. Guest Post: Travis Silveus - Peace Corps Volunteer, Tanzania

    24/05/2016 Travis Silveus is a Peace Corps Volunteer who is extending for his 3rd year in Tanzania by working with ECHO East Africa. He did his two year work in Kijunguvillage, Kiteto, Manyara Region, and here he shares some honest experiences of that time. "In my village, deforestation is a problem. If a...
    FMNR African Moringa Tanzania Peace Corps Deforestation East Africa

  5. Creation care through agricultural development

    Creation care is a unique way to better understand God and participate in his redemptive work in the world. Furthermore, while care of the environment may seem a secondary priority, those we seek to serve are particularly vulnerable to its degradation. Presenter:Since 1995, Scott Sabin has served...
    Creation Care Environment Deforestation

  6. Shifting Cultivation: A New Old Paradigm for Managing Tropical Forests

    Abstract, BioScience, 2000 Shifting cultivation, or swidden farming, is often held to be the principle driving force for deforestation in tropical Asia (Myers 1993). National governments in Southeast Asia, notably in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, have been inclined to blame...
    Deforestation Shifting cultivation Slash-and-Burn Vietnam Asia

  7. A History of Landscape-level Land Management Efforts in Haiti Lessons Learned from Case Studies Spanning Eight Decades

    The present report opens with a brief history of ecological degradation in Haiti-a necessary exercise for two reasons: (1) understanding how ecological degradation has proceeded how ecological degradation has proceeded historically in Haiti is required for mitigating future degradation; and (2)...
    Deforestation agriculture Environment

  8. Alternatives to slash-and-burn A global initiative

    This booklet introduces the slash-and-burn initiative and describes their mission of working to reduce deforestation caused by unsustainable slash-and-burn by providing technology alternatives and policy options that eliminate the need to clear additional land and that encourage the reclamation...
    Deforestation

  9. Carbon sequestration and trace gas emissions in slash-and-burn and alternative land uses in the humid tropics

    01/11/2000 The overall objectives of the Climate Change working group of the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme (ASB) were to determine those land use systems that sequester more carbon and reduce trace gas emissions . The research consisted of three activities: a) collect strategic information on...
    Deforestation Slash-and-Burn

  10. Alternatives to slash-and-burn in Indonesia: Summary report & synthesis of phase II

    01/01/1998 The key hypothesis underlying Phase II of the ASB research project in Indonesia can be summarized as: Intensifying land use as an alternative to slash-and-burn simultaneously can reduce deforestation and reduce poverty. 139 pages, illustrated, tables
    Deforestation Slash-and-Burn