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The Tacaná Watersheds - Developing untapped potential: Strengthening resilience through cross-sectoral collaboration
… for processing coffee beans. In addition, intensive animal farming and a relatively dense population associated with … and banana industries pollute the water and larger-scale farming has degraded the land. Soil erosion resulting from … instrumental in supporting the emergence of a youth-run cooperative enterprise called ‘Jóvenes en la Missión’ (Youth …
Water Management and Stewardship
… 56 3.7 Collective/cooperative action … three standards/guides is the big step up to collective/cooperative action, after the third stage of the process, … Water Week included discussion on target setting. Terrace farming, Nepal ©Pixabay … are investigating how to intervene in food production and farming, for example Olam. The corporate representative of …
Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management
… local issues that will motivate joint action toward cooperative problem solving can provide valuable entry points … enhanced water availability; • Additional income from fish farming and increased agricultural activity; • Greening of … of dryland ecosystems. For example, traditional farming practices like Zaï pits in Burkina Faso help to …
Volta River Basin Ghana & Burkina Faso - Transboundary water management through multi-level participatory governance and community projects
… is available in the floodplain for dry season vegetable farming and rice cultivation. An estimated 1,137 people now have access to water for dry-season farming; m Approximately 16 kilometres of river banks in the … were supported with 19 water pumps to expand dry season farming in December 2009; m 4 communities in Burkina Faso …
Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources
… for other domestic uses, such as washing and subsistence farming, as well as for commercial agriculture and industrial … and technological means 18.42. States should undertake cooperative researc h projects to develop solutions to … 1 8 . 4 1 Strengthen science and technology 4 1 . Increase cooperative research projects on water quality and aquatic …
GEO yearbook 2003
… sources is therefore a crucially important part of their farming systems (Goote and Lefeber 2003). It allows them to … competed for headline attention with the region’s cooperative policy initiatives. Wildfires and the worst … North America needs to act quickly to implement these. Cooperative efforts to protect and monitor environmental …
Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability
… Urbanisation, industrialisation and intensification of farming practices have led to an escalating demand for … km2) and was being depleted, because the local commercial-farming community had virtually open-access for groundwater … use com- pared to that of adjacent land used for dryland farming.80 A similar phenomenon occurs in Mendoza province, …
Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 vi Chapter Three Cooperative Transboundary Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 3.3 Cooperative mechanisms components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … vulnerability. Activities included aquaculture (fish-farming), honey production and agro-ecology (community …
Flow : The essentials of environmental flows
… terms, for example the net benefits of hydropower or farming, or the cost of refurbishing a power plant. The price … result in water in-stre- am. In particular, challenges by farming interests have held up or delayed the allocation of … flows to sustain a healthy working river. Watershed, Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, Canberra …