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Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening
… vegetation encompassing recreation parks, agroforestry, farming and forestry systems, the geographical administrative … is on trees in a built-up environment which excludes urban farming (food production occurring within settlements). One … could be accomplished either internally or through cooperative action involving other parties to the convention. …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… villagers formed a group to stop the logging and shrimp farming. Their efforts were successful and the gate was … a s e S t u d i e s 57 On the surface, the ingredients for cooperative management are all there: communities throughout … the strength of local institutions and the likelihood of cooperative arrangements. Poor upstream communities may be …
Improving access to forest resources - Experiences in informal tenure reform from IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy
… with attempts to reforest an area that had been used for farming. The farmers involved protested and the RTAF, to its … with high priority for soil conservation and areas for farming. In the case of the site where the aborted first … (RFD). In addition to the usual reluctance to condone farming in reserved forests, there were also some citizenship …
Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration
… of on-farm trees: on-farm trees are not only assets for farming systems but are also an important source of … agriculture was probably contributing little to the local farming community. Increased forest cover on the steeper … has been cleared extensively for agriculture. While farming is currently productive, the level of biodiversity …
Forests and protected areas : Guidance on the use of the IUCN protected area management categories
… forests and woodlands 30 Small woodlands for use in the farming system 31 Woodland managed for sport shooting etc 31 … non-timber forest products, selective cultivation, forest farming and GGuuiiddeelliinneess Forests and Protected Areas: … in 1990 as Yukon’s first Ecological Reserve, in a cooperative venture between the provincial government, the …
Governing natural resources and the processes and institutions that affect them : North-West Frontier Province. Legislation.
… and families in extreme poverty; (d) establishment of farming, marketing and consumers’ cooperatives; (e) … ’tenant’ means a person or a body of persons including a cooperative society to whom a lease is granted under … partnership, society, group, company, corporation, cooperative society, Government Agency, non-governmental …
Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation
… has been replaced by farmland used mainly for dairy farming and beef cattle production. In 1942, most forest … increase the sustainability of soil and water resources; • farming and harvesting of wildlife in a sustainable manner on … of greatly expanding the area available for irrigation farming (by more than 100,000ha) and more than doubling the …