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… alarming in the face of the increased demand for land-intensive crops and livestock. Land degradation contributes … based on monocultures, genetically modified crops, and the intensive use of fertilizers and pesticides that undermine … to climate change and other natural resource pressures. 3. Farming for multiple benefits: optimizing the most desirable …

… Shrestha Canyon de Chelly National Monument, USA: Navajo farming traditions and agrobiodiversity by Jessica Brown, … wild biodiversity. In general, these systems involve less intensive interventions – for example, less drainage, less intensive tillage, less reliance on large machinery, and less …

… a warmer world will require new approaches and increasing intensive management of ecosystems to maintain ecosystem … change into account; c) Adaptation of high-mountain farming systems decreases the pressure on natural ecosystems … the night. Farther from the village, management is less intensive and yields are generally lower (Brouwer, 2008). The …

… over Europe have been shaped and modified by processes of intensive agricultural (and industrial) development, many … changing its face On the Austrian side of the border, intensive agriculture on small plots of private farm land pushed back the former pastures and meadows. Cattle farming became less and less attractive, while wine and …

… is that grey water infrastructure tends to be capital intensive to build, operate, maintain and replace. … weather events (CNT & American Rivers 2010). However, intensive reafforestion/afforestation activities may reduce … cent in Baidang Lake. Development of certified eco-fish farming by 412 households increased income of fishers by 20 …

… and scales, from low-intensity subsistence users, to intensive, commercial exploitation involving multinational … lost in the past 20 years, with aquaculture – especially intensive shrimp farming – implicated as one of the main culprits. Rice is a …

… 11 hydrocarbons are often more energy, water and land intensive. Exploitation of tar sands is one such example (see … affected by shifts in energy systems, e.g. towards more intensive cropping for bio-fuels, may not be able to provide …

… economy penetrate areas formerly considered remote, as farming becomes ever more industrialized, and as urban and … for Tijuca’s joint management. Its rationale was that intensive public use, watershed protection and national … resources and notes: See page 48. Natural areas and intensive development co-exist on Hong Kong Island. A view …

… sectors of fishing, aquaculture, forestry, livestock and farming (Government of Chile, 2015). These vulnerabilities … followed, while in parallel, the EPIC team engaged in intensive policy advocacy. Outcomes of the vulnerability and … demonstration sites were established in three villages. Intensive capacity building (See later section) also …

… where among the latter are excessive disturbance, intensive land use, overgrazing, indiscriminate removal of … of country autonomous organizations and NGOs, the role of farming organs (farmers’ associations, economic-aid units) … State Council 2006 Notice on Promoting Economical and Intensive Land Use State Council 2008 u EPLP 80 Chap 4.indd …