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Fruit trees and useful plants in Amazonian life
    Shanley, Patricia | Cymerys, Margaret | Serra, Murilo | Medina, Gabriel | Cordeiro, Sylvia | Imbiriba, Miguel

This publication provides rich information on Amazon fruits and communities, illustrating how local peoples have adopted and adapted to the plant kindgom around them to distil vital nutrients, medicines and other products fundamental to their survival; it also shows how scientific information can be presented in an innovative and more inclusive way, one that can be adapted accordingly by other actors worldwide.
Climate action : assisting business towards carbon neutrality
Decoupling natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth : a report of the working group on decoupling to the International Resource Panel : report excerpt
   

This publication is an excerpt of the report, "Decoupling natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth : a report of the working group on decoupling to the International Resource Panel".
Decoupling natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth : a report of the working group on decoupling to the International Resource Panel
   

This report provides a solid foundation for the concept of decoupling, clearly defining key terms and providing empirical evidence of escalating resource use. It shows that decoupling is already taking place to some extent, but is lagging far behind its potential. The scenarios show that we are facing a historic choice about how we use resources and the report scopes the potential of innovation, rethinking economic growth and the role of cities in building more resource efficient economies. Four case studies at the country level show how policy makers are implementing decoupling strategies. The report focuses on material resources, namely fossil fuels, minerals, metals, and biomass.
The forgotten billion : MDG achievement in the drylands
   

The purpose of this publication is to highlight the development challenges faced by people who live in drylands and to outline how these challenges can be tackled successfully. Covering about 40 percent of the world’s land surface, dryland is home to more than 2 billion people in nearly 100 countries, of which about half remains under poverty. It will be impossible to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 if life does not improve for the poor people of the drylands. Together, they are the forgotten billion. The publication stresses that the policies designed to meet the needs of dryland peoples must be based on a sound understanding of the full complexity and dynamics of dryland ecosystems. They need to emphasize the value of dryland ecosystem services and the investment and marketing opportunities they offer.
Mini Darwin in Amazzonia
    Catapano, Paola | Ghigliano, Cinzia | Struik, Mike

In occasione dell'Anno Internazionale della Biodiversità, i Mini Darwin sono partiti alla scoperta del "polmone verde della Terra": la foresta amazzonica. I giovani esploratori hanno ammirato da vicino le specie animali e vegetali che la popolano, come il delfino rosa o la scimmia calva uacari, hanno navigato in canoa sul Rio delle Amazzoni e hanno visitato il villaggio della comunità indigena dei Caburini, confrontandosi con questioni importanti: la perdita di biodiversità, la protezione delle specie in pericolo, l'ecoturismo e lo sviluppo della sostenibilità.
Global action networks : creating our future together
LIFE preventing species extinction : safeguarding endangered flora and fauna through ex-situ conservation
Environmental assessment of Ogoniland
   

This report represents the best available understanding as to what has happened to the environment of Ogoniland – and the corresponding implications for affected populations – over many years of oil industry operations. It provides the government, stakeholders and the international community with invaluable, baseline information on the scale of the challenge and priorities for action in terms of clean-up and remediation.
Guidelines for drinking-water quality
Grazers of the Texas hills : food habits of exotics with native deer
    Kelley, Jack A. | Mungall, Elizabeth Cary

This publication makes available a full discussion of Jack A. Kelley's landmark study covering all seasons for food habits of a whole selection of the most common hoofed wildlife species living together in a typical rangeland pasture.
Las ecorregiones del Noroeste Argentino basadas en la clasificación climática de Köppen
Institutions and transboundary protected area management : the case of Mt. Elgon, Uganda and Kenya
State of food insecurity in the world : how does international price volatility affect domestic economies and food security?
   

This edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World focuses on food price volatility. Our organizations continue to monitor food prices, and have alerted the world through a number of analytical reports on food price trends and ongoing volatility in recent years, as these continue to be a matter of concern for governments and people around the world. Indeed, high and volatile food prices are widely expected to continue in the future. By using previously unavailable data sources and studies, this report digs underneath the globalscale analyses to find out what happened on domestic markets and to draw lessons from the world food crisis of 2006–08. In particular, the report emphasizes that the impact of world price changes on household food security and nutrition is highly context-specific. The impact depends on the commodity, the national policies that affect price transmission from world markets to domestic markets, the demographic and production characteristics of different households and a range of other factors. This diversity of impacts, both within and between countries, points to a need for improved data and analysis so that governments can implement better policies.
Life on Fiji's mangrove trees
    Haynes, Alison

The mangrove ecosystem is amongst the worlds richest in terms of its biodiversity. In Fiji, there are eight tree species that make up the mangrove forest. Life on Fiji's Mangrove Trees is an Environment Science reader for school students in Fiji and other Pacific Islands. It is hoped that it will raise children's awareness and appreciation of the different living things that live on mangrove trees and the importance in preserving stands of mangroves. It may help them develop a caring and responsible attitude to coastal environments.
Biotechnologies for agricultural development
Threatened birds of Jeju Island
Land deals in Africa : what is in the contracts?
    Cotula, Lorenzo

Over the past few years, agribusiness, investment funds and government agencies have been acquiring long-term rights over large areas of land in Africa. Together with applicable national and international law, contracts define the terms of an investment project, and the way risks, costs and benefits are distributed. Who has the authority to sign the contract and through what process greatly influences the extent to which people can have their voices heard. Yet very little is known about the exact terms of the land deals. Drawing on the legal analysis of twelve land deals from different parts of Africa, this report discusses the contractual issues for which public scrutiny is most needed, and aims to promote informed public debate about them.
Fauna of cobalt-rich ferromanganese crust seamounts
   

Seamounts in the central-west Pacific Ocean are known to have thick, cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts. These are of commercial interest for mining. However, very little is known about the faunal communities on these seamounts, and in particular whether they could be different from those that occur on seamounts which do not have thick cobalt-rich crusts. This study was commissioned by the ISA to assess patterns of community composition and diversity on seamounts with, and without, cobalt-rich crusts, and the factors that determine these patterns.
Marine benthic nematode molecular protocol handbook (nematode barcoding)
   

This is a practical guide for undertaking a molecular survey of deep-sea nematodes including protocols for collecting deep-sea nematodes, preservation and shipping of samples, slide mounting, image capture and the production of individual barcodes.
Environmental management of deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems : justification of and considerations for a spatially-based approach
Reefs at risk : a map-based indicator of threats to the world's coral reefs
    Burke, Lauretta Marie | Spalding, Mark | Reytar, Kathleen | Perry, Allison

Reefs at Risk Revisited is part of a series that began in 1998 with the release of the first global analysis, Reefs at Risk: A Map-Based Indicator of Threats to the World’s Coral Reefs. Two regionspecific publications followed with Reefs at Risk in Southeast Asia (2002) and Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean (2004). These regional studies incorporated more detailed data and refined the modeling approach for mapping the impact of human activities on reefs. Reefs at Risk Revisited—an updated, enhanced global report—has drawn upon the improved methodology of the regional studies, more detailed global data sets, and new developments in mapping technology and coral reef science. The Reefs at Risk Revisited project was a multi-year, collaborative effort that involved more than 25 partner institutions. The project has compiled far more data, maps, and statistics than can be presented in this report. This additional information is available at www.wri.org/reefs.
Agribusiness for Africa's prosperity
    Yumkella, Kandeh K. | Kormawa, Patrick Momoh-Nuwah | Roepstorff, Torben M. | Hawkins, A. M.

This publication analyses the challenges, the potential and opportunities of African agribusiness in the current period of dramatic changes in global agro-industrial markets, and builds a case for agribusiness development as a path to Africa’s prosperity. Written by international experts, from agribusiness practitioners, to academic experts and UN technical agencies, the book fills what UNIDO perceived as a significant gap in knowledge concerning these issues. It will be an important resource for policymakers, agribusiness managers, and researchers in agribusiness development.
Global food losses and food waste : extent, causes and prevention
    Gustavsson, Jenny | Cederberg, Christel | Sonesson, Ulf | Otterdijk, Robert van | Meybeck, Alexandre

This publication is based on studies carried out from August 2010 to January 2011 by The Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (SIK) on request from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The two studies on global food losses (one for high/medium-income countries and one for low income countries) have been carried out to serve as a basis for the international congress Save Food!, 16-17 May 2011, at the international packaging industry fair Interpack2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Save Food! has been co-organized by Interpack2011 and FAO. Save Food! aims at awareness raising on global food losses and waste, and on the impact of these on poverty and hunger in the world, as well as on climate change and on the use of natural resources.
Tourism and poverty reduction strategies in the integrated framework for least developed countries
   

This study sheds light on how least developed countries (LDCs) can maximize pro-poor gains from tourism. It analyses LDCs’ tourism development aspirations as set out in the Diagnostic Trade Integration Studies (DTIS) that were completed under the Integrated Framework for Trade-Related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries (IF). The DTIS encompass a comprehensive review of LDCs’ trade constraints, trade potential and the priority actions required to meet trade development needs in the overall context of national development and poverty reduction programmes. The DTIS represent a unique source of information on LDCs because they combine robust macroeconomic and sectoral analysis with stakeholder consultations and a participatory validation processes. Thirty-five DTIS were conducted between 2001 and 2009. Of these, 30 (86 percent) include a specific section dedicated to tourism with prioritized recommendations in an action matrix.
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