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Improving governance of pastoral lands

… Ruiz-Mirazo Entretantos Foundation / IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management Jennifer Mohamed-Katerere IUCN … Foundation), Jabier Ruiz-Mirazo (IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management), Jennifer Mohamed-Katerere (IUCN … the potential to be grazed, and which is used as a natural ecosystem for the production of grazing livestock and …
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Pay : Establishing payments for watershed services

… Initiative is an action programme to demonstrate that ecosystem-based management and stakeholder participation will … is not always the case. For exam- ple, forest cover in arid and semi-arid areas has negative impacts on the dry season flow …
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UNEP. The first 40 years

… northwards. The boreal forests and forests in the arid and semi-arid zones are particularly sensitive to climate change. … beginning of the third millennium. First, the global human ecosystem is threatened by grave imbalances in productivity …
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Nature-based solutions to address global societal challenges

… 1.3.3 NbS as an umbrella concept for ecosystem-related approaches .. 1.4 NbS initiatives at IUCN … Colorado General background Water resources in the semi-arid southwestern US are under increasing pressure from … The overarching challenge in transitional and semi-arid riparian systems is managing the uncertainty associated …
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Global Warming of 1.5°C - an IPPC special report on the impacts of global warming

… such as loss of human lives, cultural heritage, and ecosystem services, are difficult to value and monetize. 1.0 … reduce the risks to natural and managed ecosystems (e.g., ecosystem-based adaptation, ecosystem restoration and avoided degradation and …
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Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power

… and poverty 81 Multiple scales and multiple levels 81 The ecosystem approach 82 The landscape concept 84 Application to … six districts and 833 villages. The predominantly semi-arid region has nearly two million people. The high … Trees as Key to Pastoralist Risk Management in Semi-Arid Landscapes in Shinyanga, Tanzania, and Turkana, Kenya. …
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Comment aborder la REDD+ au Cameroun: Contexte, enjeux et options pour une stratégie nationale

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Advancing the Species Conservation Agenda. An overview of the IUCN SSC Network 2009 – 2012

… because these organizations do not encompass wildlife and ecosystem health, IUCN is now bringing in this aspect through … • Water over-extraction (particularly islands and arid regions) • Invasive species • Deforestation RLA Focal … and semi-desert ecotopes • Include algal symbionts! • Arid lichens from the Red Data Book of Ukraine: studying, …
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Auditing the Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs): A Primer for Auditors

… of fauna. Earlier agreements also dealt with a particular ecosystem, such as oceans. Conceivably this latter matter is … desertification Degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas,  …
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Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… and sustainable use of crop diversity in the semi- arid Zambezi-Gwembe Valley of Zambia Improving the … to organic farming; and focusing from the individual farm ecosystem to community/agro-ecosystem wide conversion. Technical support and information …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity