Story | 17 Jul, 2008
Balakrishna, P. IUCN, Regional Biodiversity Programme Asia Over 800 million human beings suffer from hunger and malnutrition. The future of global food security depends on the success of our efforts in the conservation and enhancement of agrobiodiversity, the biodiversity occurring in plants and…
Story | 17 Jul, 2008
Northern Areas Strategy for Sustainable Development Background Paper: Agriculture and Food Security
Hashmi, Ali Asghar; Shafiullah IUCN Pakistan, Northern Areas Programme; Pakistan, Northern Areas, Planning and Development Dept.
Story | 17 Jul, 2008
Altieri, Miguel A. IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy
Story | 17 Jul, 2008
Mainka, Susan A., ed.; Trivedi, Mandar, ed. IUCN Species Survival Commission; FAO; TRAFFIC International The global use of wild animals for meat is now the primary illegal activity in many protected areas, and growing human populations and a lack of livelihood options suggest that demand for…
Story | 17 Jul, 2008
Osofsky, Steven A.; Cleaveland, Sarah; Karesh, William B.; Kock, Michael D.; Nyhus, Philip J.; Starr, Lisa; Yang, Angela (Editors) IUCN Species Survival Commission; Wildlife Conservation Society This volume focuses on several themes of critical importance to the future of animal agriculture,…
Story | 17 Jul, 2008
Agroecology and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty in the Americas
Cohn, Avery; Cook, Jonathan; Fernández, Margarita; Reider, Rebecca; Steward, Corrina (Editors) International Institute for Environment and Development; Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy
Story | 17 Jul, 2008
Plant Resources of Arua and Gopinathpur Beels of Manikganj
Mollah, Abdur Rob; Mannan, Md Abdul; Faisal, Arif Mohammad IUCN Bangladesh; Sustainable Environment Management Programme (SEMP); UNDP; Bangladesh, Ministry of Environment and Forest Wetlands in Bangladesh are going through a difficult phase caused by exponential degradation and destruction of…
Story | 17 Jul, 2008
Ecoagriculture: Strategies to Feed the World and Save Biodiversity
McNeely, Jeffrey A.; Scherr, Sara J. Future Harvest, US; IUCN This comprehensive report outlines a new solution to the biodiversity extinction crisis, in response to its warnings that unless farmers and the world’s poorest peoples can learn to coexist with wildlife, hundreds of species may be…
Story | 17 Jul, 2008
IUCN; IUCN, Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation; Federation of European Aquaculture Producers; Spain, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Aquaculture currently faces a significant challenge: how to fulfill the expectation of alleviating the pressure that fishing fleets exercise on fish…
Story | 15 Jul, 2008
New World Heritage Sites for the Pacific
Twenty-seven new sites have recently been added to the internationally recognised World Heritage List, including three sites in the Pacific: Chief Roi Mata's Domain (Vanuatu), the Kuk Early Agricultural Site (Papua New Guinea) and the Lagoons of New Caledonia (France).