Sentences with phrase «rural livelihoods»

As part of our longstanding commitment to improving rural livelihoods in ecologically critical landscapes, the Rainforest Alliance recently launched a three - year plan to work with vulnerable communities in some of Honduras's most threatened forests.

OTA's Organic Week is an opportunity to engage in the critical work of sharing our messages of rural livelihoods, business growth and consumer choice with government leaders.

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has warned that the removal of sporting rates relief will have devastating consequences for rural Scotland and will damage rural livelihoods, conservation, jobs and tourism.

on UNDP to Support Sri Lanka's Rural Livelihood Development Programs to Withstand Climate - related Shocks

The aim of the UN SEED 2013 Global Award Winning «Trees for Global Benefit (TGB) is to produce long - term, verifiable voluntary emission reductions by combining carbon sequestration with rural livelihood improvements through small - scale, farmer led, forestry / agroforestry projects while reducing pressure on natural resources in national parks and forest reserves.

Several of our members are collaborating on ISEAL's Demonstrating and Improving Poverty Impacts project, which aims to improve understanding of how their programmes contribute to sustainable rural livelihoods and pro-poor development.

«Dams on Missouri River tributaries have changed rural livelihoods and the economics of the basin by reducing downstream flooding, generating hydro - electric power, and irrigating agricultural crops,» he says.

Land degradation and insecurity hot spots frequently overlap and without adaptation strategies and resilience building geared to responsibly managing and restoring our natural capital, land degradation will continue to be a significant factor that threatens rural livelihoods, triggers forced migration and aggravates conflicts over limited natural resources.

Building on our Smallholder Group Certification project where we've had four pilot projects in Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand and Viet Nam, we continue to innovate and develop solutions to promote rural livelihoods, improve access to markets and increase the uptake of forest certification.

Ensuring that farmers have access to real - time climate services, such as early warning systems for drought or crop index insurance, is critical to support rural livelihoods and mitigate crop production loss in the event of a climatic shock.

Agriculture and rural development are key to mitigate and adapt to climate change, thereby assuring the persistence of viable and attractive rural livelihoods.

This is an investigation into modern rural livelihood.

OTA's Organic Week is an opportunity to engage in the critical work of sharing our messages of rural livelihoods, business growth and consumer choice with government leaders.

This policy brief highlights that addressing the role of women in forestry is central to sustainable resource management and rural livelihood improvement.

The Root Capital impact framework for how the activities of Root Capital's clients can improve rural livelihoods.

The collective expertise of the organizations involved, along with the Honduran government's commitment to improving rural livelihoods, bode well for the success of this vital work.»

Keywords: organic agriculture, organic aquaculture, agro-ecology, ecological management, resource - poor farmers, community development, rural livelihoods, international trade, markets, food security, food supply chains.

In a speech titled «Bridging Science and Society,» AAAS President Peter Agre naturally discussed examples such as how scientists assist in diplomacy with hostile nations, and how medicine improves rural livelihoods.

Biodiesel can not compete with current petroleum prices, which are relatively low, so jatropha would be better suited for local projects that improve rural livelihoods and basic energy services.

Thus the insecurity and violence phenomena could be due to internal and external dynamics that have made the rural livelihood and intra-community coexistence unattainable if not unsustainable.

«It is impressive to see how forests contribute to basic needs and rural livelihoods.

The eighth largest economy in Latin America, Ecuador seeks to augment its work on reducing deforestation to cut GHG emissions and fight climate change, as well as to improve rural livelihoods and protect the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities.

Crop failures, water scarcity and the migration of traditional crops are damaging rural livelihoods.

• Risk of loss of rural livelihoods and income due to insufficient access to drinking and irrigation water and reduced agricultural productivity, particularly for farmers and pastoralists with minimal capital in semi-arid regions.

The information presented would enable participants to prepare, demonstrate and implement location - specific adaptation practices and, thus, to improve the adaptive capacity of rural livelihoods to climate change in agriculture and allied sectors.

Naidu, Sirisha C. (2011): Rural Livelihoods, Forest Access and Time Use: A Study of Forest Communities in Northwest India.

The land sector is responsible for about a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and changes to land - use practices have the potential to significantly contribute to reducing emissions, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, improving rural livelihoods, and promoting countries» ability to adapt to a changing climate.

[1] The land sector produces about a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and has the potential to significantly contribute to reducing emissions, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, improving rural livelihoods, and promoting countries» ability to adapt to a changing climate.