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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 …

… depends on water for processing coffee beans. In addition, intensive animal farming and a relatively dense population associated with … Higher resilience (after intervention) Diversity • Intensive production of cash crops meant for the national …

… of economic activities, from fishing and subsistence farming to intensive rice cultivation. At the Regional Dialogue on … approaches have dominated the debate – a capital- intensive “high-tech” intervention and a “living-with-floods” …

… distorted when arid areas continue to produce water intensive goods at ever-increasing financial and social cost, … to specific types of crops and can often support more intensive cropping schedules. 68 When water crises hit, … Water Week included discussion on target setting. Terrace farming, Nepal ©Pixabay …

… coping mechanisms of dryland ecosystems with periodic intensive rainfall and droughts for example and to understand … 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 …

… through springs, rivers and wetlands or into the sea. Intensive abstraction of groundwater, usually by pumping, … Urbanisation, industrialisation and intensification of farming practices have led to an escalating demand for … cause contamination of both groundwater and streams. Intensive on-site sanitation, with waste discharged to ground …

… may nevertheless be significant sources of supply. In intensive farming locations, widespread and uncontrolled interruption … for domestic and stock purposes - but not stock subject to intensive farming. 2.3.2 Rights of drainage Part 12 of the …

… sources is therefore a crucially important part of their farming systems (Goote and Lefeber 2003). It allows them to … health. In 2004, the EPA released the findings of a 5-year intensive research programme on the effect of fine … (Canis lupus) to Yellowstone National Park is stimulating intensive scientific research and heated public debate. …

… invariably much more concerned about the consequences of intensive groundwater abstraction than about its absolute … on impacts of potential pollution hazards from: ■■ Intensive agricultural land use ■■ Industrial sites of … as well as the necessary enabling factors associated with farming, e.g. access to energy, credit, agricultural inputs, …

… modern administrators, but can more easily be applied by farming or urban households. The following sections use case … bottom when the river was dammed had begun cage fish farming with encouragement by activists and some Japanese … killing all the fish that the villagers had been farming. A massive conflict issued at the local level. The …