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1.
Introduction
There is increasing acceptance that even very ambitious climate change
mitigation measures, which would go beyond the current international
climate agreements, would not be sufficiently effective to halt the increase
of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations in the medium term and that
therefore adaptation...
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103 1. Introduction There is increasing acceptance that even very ambitious climate change mitigation measures, which would go beyond the current international climate agreements, would not be sufficiently effective to halt the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations in the medium term and that therefore adaptation measures are as needed as mitigation measures. The impact of climate change will be affecting developing countries more severely than developed countries not the least because of their generally low adaptive capacities (IPCC, 2003). In these countries, the agricultural sector will be among the most vulnerable putting rural populations at large risks. At the same time, we recognise that climate change is yet an additional threat to urgent rural development demands including food security improvement, poverty reduction and provision of an adequate standard of living for growing populations. Much effort will be needed to integrate what is known about Opportunities
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Natural capital: The new political imperative
An interim report prepared for the ‘Parliamentarians and Biodiversity Forum’ at the tenth
Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Nagoya, Japan.
October 2010
GLOBE International Commission on Land Use Change and Ecosystems
Supported by the Global...
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Natural capital: The new political imperative An interim report prepared for the ‘Parliamentarians and Biodiversity Forum’ at the tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Nagoya, Japan. October 2010 GLOBE International Commission on Land Use Change and Ecosystems Supported by the Global Environment Facility and the United Nations Environment Programme
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Agriculture and Rural Development
Conference Edition
Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook
Par Shelia Andora
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International Journal of the African Renaissance, 4(1) 2009
Traditional food crops as a source of community resilience in Zimbabwe
Soul Shava
soul.
shava@gmail.
com
Rhodes University, South Africa
Rob O’Donoghue
r.
odonoghue@ru.
ac.
za
Rhodes University, South Africa
Marianne E.
Krasny
Cornell University, United States of America...
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1 International Journal of the African Renaissance, 4(1) 2009 Traditional food crops as a source of community resilience in Zimbabwe Soul Shava soul. shava@gmail. com Rhodes University, South Africa Rob O’Donoghue r. odonoghue@ru. ac. za Rhodes University, South Africa Marianne E. Krasny Cornell University, United States of America mek2@cornell. edu Cryton Zazu Sebakwe Black Rhino Conservation Trust, Zimbabwe claytonzazu@fastmail. fm Abstract This article draws upon local narratives and observations of food sustenance practices in relocated farming communities in Sebakwe, Zimbabwe. Local knowledge on traditional food crops and related agricultural practices were proven to be a source of local community resilience enabling residents to sustain their livelihoods. Local community agency in maintaining, cultivating and processing traditional food crops was found to sustain their culture and livelihoods, thereby providing community resilience in a changing environment. Keywords: Agrobio
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ORGANIC AGRICULTURE FOR IMPROVED
FOOD SECURITY IN AFRICA
RECOMMENDATIONS TO FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
Results and outcomes of a workshop about organic farming development
Mette Vaarst, Charles Ssekyewa, Niels Halberg, Mwatima Juma, Charles Walaga, Musa Muwanga,
Lise Andreasen, Aage Dissing
August 2009
Par Shelia Andora
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The Finance Sector & Natural Capital: Catalyzing Action
July 14th
2010,
F&C Management Limited
A number of entrepreneurial initiatives are today seeking the transformation of the financial sector to
incorporate ecosystem services and biodiversity—referred to as natural capital—into investment
portfolios and decision-making...
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The Finance Sector & Natural Capital: Catalyzing Action July 14th 2010, F&C Management Limited A number of entrepreneurial initiatives are today seeking the transformation of the financial sector to incorporate ecosystem services and biodiversity—referred to as natural capital—into investment portfolios and decision-making processes. Volans identified some of these innovators in ‘The Biosphere Economy’1 , a piece of innovation research with an agenda for the financial sector, which argued that: ‘changes are underway in terms of how corporate assets and liabilities are calculated, potentially influencing how natural assets find their way onto balance sheets and corporate accounts. UNEP-FI, as a global partnership between the finance sector and UNEP, represents almost 20 years of collaboration to improve the sector’s understanding of environmental and social impacts on financial performance. The meeting, which was jointly organized by Volans and UNEP-FI and hosted by F&C Asset Managem
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Profiles of Poison
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR)
will shortly decide whether to register for use a new, very dangerous pesticide, methyl iodide.
The profiles in this report
record the stories of nine individuals from across California
who have been poisoned by pesticides in the homes, schools
and fields where...
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Profiles of Poison The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) will shortly decide whether to register for use a new, very dangerous pesticide, methyl iodide. The profiles in this report record the stories of nine individuals from across California who have been poisoned by pesticides in the homes, schools and fields where they live and work. These individuals hope their stories will inspire leaders to protect Californians from the horrific—and inevitable—consequences of allowing highly hazardous chemicals to be used in agriculture. Through this report they unite their voices to strongly urge DPR and the governor not to approve the known carcinogen and highly toxic pesticide methyl iodide for use in fields across California. From the farmworker rushed to the hospital with severe chemical blistering and in need of respiratory support, to the pregnant mother who lost her baby only two days after being exposed to pesticide dew, these are the stories of people who have live
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Natural capitalism: path to sustainability?
L.
Hunter Lovins1
The late twentieth century is witnessing two great intellectual shifts.
The first
is the fall of Communism, with the apparent triumph of market economics.
The
second, now emergent in a rapidly growing number of businesses, is the end of the
war against the earth, with the...
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Natural capitalism: path to sustainability? L. Hunter Lovins1 The late twentieth century is witnessing two great intellectual shifts. The first is the fall of Communism, with the apparent triumph of market economics. The second, now emergent in a rapidly growing number of businesses, is the end of the war against the earth, with the eventual competitive victory of a new form of economics we call Natural Capitalism. The term ‘Natural Capitalism’ emphasizes that industrial capitalism, as it is now practiced, is unnatural—is an aberration. It is defying its own logic. It does not value, but rather is liquidating, the most important forms of capital, especially natural capital—the biological world whose resources and ecosystem services make possible all life. According to a pioneering analysis of the world’s ecosystems prepared by the United Nations, the World Bank and the World Resources Institute (2000)2 : ‘There are considerable signs that the capacity of ecosystems, the biologic
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