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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 …
31 May 2026 Literature

Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… of capture fisheries (fishing) and aquaculture (fish farming). The value of inland fisheries is often … vitamins and minerals essential to the human diet. Fish farming’s role as a source of food and income, in both … 2004). In the 1980s and 1990s, declining profitability of farming along with renewed population pressure on small towns …
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Scientific Assessment Report - UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution - Summary for policy makers

31 May 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

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 …
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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 …
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Change : Adaptation of water resources management to climate change

… of economic activities, from fishing and subsistence farming to intensive rice cultivation. At the Regional … in southern China will affect subsistence and commercial farming. Changes in rainfall patterns could alter flooding … and supported. State-led initiatives to promote mono-crop farming – such as intensive irrigated rice cultivation – is …
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Governance of Ecosystem Services. Lessons Learned from Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador

… the law, such as an association, common initiative group, cooperative, or private company. If the legal entity does not … resource use and management, including agriculture, farming, and mining. 19 See Articles 1 and 2, Chapter II of … (BA) are responsible for particular forests in the farming business. Authorities of environmental protection• : …
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International trade rules and the agriculture sector: selected implementation issues

… an industry, to producers of an agricultural product, to a cooperative or other association of such producers, or to a … a patent system would indeed constrain subsistence farming and imperil the realization of food security. … private sector participation. One reason for this is that cooperative services for the collection and storage of crops …
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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. …
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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 …
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