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Global Land Outlook
… 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 …
Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines
… 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 …
Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening
… vegetation encompassing recreation parks, agroforestry, farming and forestry systems, the geographical administrative … Urban forestry addresses "the land in and around areas of intensive human influence, ranging from small communities to … throughout the urban and peri-urban area, applying intensive production methods, using and reusing natural …
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) … of carcasses of animals. 37. Use of sewer water for farming. 38. Flow or drain to be put upon any street, or … (iv) recovery of cost of providing drainage to non-farming beneficiaries; and (v) disinvestment of fresh water …