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Global biodiversity outlook 4 - A mid-term assessment of progress towards the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

… will succeed. Solutions for achieving sustainable farming and food systems include sustainable productivity … savannas continue to witness large- scale conversion to intensive agricultural and other uses.⁵⁵ While no globally … from the greater uMngeni catchment, where industry and intensive agriculture combine with challenges such as failing …
31 May 2026 Literature

Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… damage (e.g. assisted evolution of corals and/or coral farming); and adapting (e.g. economic activities … benefits: statistical downscaling is less computationally intensive (i.e. faster and cheaper) than dynamical … more extensive as well as intensive in today’s ocean if anthropogenic influences …
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European models of good practice in protected areas

… them – and the flora is much enriched by traditional non-intensive forms of agriculture and forestry.) Of course, the … of the island, one part of which is its sus- tainable farming practices, but certainly not entirely dependent on … pastures) has remained at 35%. Both intensification of farming and abandonment of farmed land lead to loss of …
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The SHPF toolkit - A toolkit to help you to monitor and report incidents of pesticide poisoning caused by Severely Hazardous Pesticide Formulations in your country under Article 6 of the Rotterdam Convention

… efforts to reduce risks from hazardous pesticides to farming families and communities. 27 The Severely hazardouS … price to insecticides. Careful field sanitation is labour intensive; however, farmers report that the extra costs are … To reduce reliance on PeSTicideS IPM is more knowledge-intensive than practices which rely mainly on pesticides. …
31 May 2026 Document

Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems

… for which no locality data can be obtained even after intensive searching) can be incorporated into KBA … KBAs. Identifying and delineating KBAs is a data intensive process that requires specialist knowledge of … Annual crops – Shifting agriculture – Small-holder farming – Agro-industry farming Perennial non-timber crops – …
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A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows

… of these efforts, enabling recognized experts to undertake intensive research and present detailed, balanced and … debate, and to build our analyses and recommendations on intensive legal research. In this sense, however, this third … appropriation of the knowledge and genetic resources of farming and indigenous communities by individuals or …
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