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Libro
Global Organic Agricultural Innovations
Global Organic Agricultural Innovations covers major innovations and research in organic agriculture from 18 countries and areas around the world. This edition showcases the diversity and robustness of the growth of organic agriculture around the world. More than seventy innovators and researchers contribute to this edition which covers themes from climate...
Bangladesh - Bhutan - Cambodia - China - India - Indonesia - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Iraq - Japan - Kyrgyzstan - Pakistan - Philippines - Sri Lanka - Syrian Arab Republic - Tunisia - Viet Nam
2024 - IFOAM Organics Asia
Artículo de blog
Bhutan explores controlled burning of mountainsides
Reviving the traditional practice could protect pastureland ecosystems in the Himalayas from destructive climate change-driven wildfires
W
ildfires have raged across the mountains of the Hindu Kush Himalaya this year. The Indian state of Uttarakhand lost over 1,500 hectares of forest while Nepal saw hundreds of forest fires in March and over a thousand in April.
As frightening and destructive as these fires have been, for over 10,000 years, everywhere from the Central...
Bhutan
2024 - Dialogue Earth
Informe
National gender profile of agriculture and rural livelihoods - Bhutan
The Country Gender Assessment (CGA) was undertaken to analyse the agricultural and rural sector of Bhutan from a gender mainstreaming perspective in areas where the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) assists in realizing rural women’s rights and potential. The agricultural sector is the major source of...
Bhutan
2023 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Documento/nota de orientación
Traditional mountain landscapes: crucial for meeting biodiversity and climate targets
Traditional mountain landscapes governed by Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) conserve unique wildlife and agrobiodiversity, and strongly support climate change adaptation and mitigation by protecting ecosystem services, including grasslands that store almost 50% more carbon than forests.
But mountain biodiversity and the Indigenous and traditional peoples that sustain it are...
Bhutan - China - India - Kenya - Kyrgyzstan - Peru - Tajikistan
2022 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Informe
Food systems profile - Bhutan
Catalysing the sustainable and inclusive transformation of food systems
The Food System Profile provides a summary of the main food system issues in Bhutan and highlights potential solutions for their sustainable and inclusive transformation. The result of a systemic analysis and stakeholders consultation, it is part of a large-scale assessment supported by the European Union, FAO and CIRAD in...
Bhutan
2022 - FAO
Documento/nota de orientación
FOOD POLICY FORUM FOR CHANGE - How feebate policies could upscale organic agriculture and food self-suffiency in Bhutan
This policy brief discusses how feebate policies could upscale organic agriculture and food self-sufficiency in Bhutan, specifically looking at rice production.
The simulations show that a feebate (fee and rebate) policy coupled with promotion and training in agroecological farming methods could incentivize widespread adoption of agroecology, achieving both 100 percent organic production and greater self-sufficiency for rice in Bhutan.
Bhutan
2022 - Biovision , Millennium Institute; Food Policy Forum for change
Artículo de revista especializada
Collaborative Modeling and Simulation to Mitigate High-Elevation Rangeland Degradation in Eastern Bhutan
The contribution of overgrazing to high-elevation rangeland degradation is a problem across the Himalayan region, and it leads to tensions among users. In the alpine areas of eastern Bhutan, 2 communities of settled and seminomadic herders have been engaged in enduring open conflict over access to a large natural pasture....
Bhutan
2022 - Ministry of Agriculture and Forests of Bhutan
Vídeo
Scaling Up Agroecology in the Himalayas Together - Day 1
Last 28 & 29 April, 2021 , high-level policy experts gathered at the digital event “Scaling up Agroecology in the Himalayas Together” to discuss and inspire key decision-makers on policies supporting agroecology and organic agriculture in the region. The Himalayas event was organised by IFOAM – Organics International and the...
Bhutan - India - Nepal
2021 - IFOAM – Organics International and the World Future Council
Vídeo
Scaling Up Agroecology in the Himalayas Together - Day 2
Last 28 & 29 April, 2021, high-level policy experts gathered at the digital event “Scaling up Agroecology in the Himalayas Together” to discuss and inspire key decision-makers on policies supporting agroecology and organic agriculture in the region. The Himalayas event was organised by IFOAM – Organics International and the World...
Bhutan - India - Nepal
2021 - IFOAM – Organics International and the World Future Council
Estudio de caso
The Bhutanese resolve for change: How one farmer’s faith unlocked a village’s potential
Linking farmers to school is a major activity undertaken by Bhutan Government’s Food Security and Agriculture Productivity Project (FSAPP). Here is a story of a farmer whose passion and resolve made it possible to form one of the most successful farmer groups in the country. The group now supplies vegetables...
Bhutan
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Informe
The Mainstreaming of Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in the Himalaya Region
Policy Contexts in Bhutan, India and Nepal
The Mainstreaming of Organic Agriculture And Agroecology in the Himalaya Region: Adequate policies that advance the transition towards sustainable agriculture and food systems to ensure healthy food for all, to overcome social and economic inequalities and to protect our environment, climate, and biodiversity, are urgently needed. After highlighting the world’s...
Bhutan - India - Nepal
2019 - IFOAM – Organics International
Artículo de revista especializada
Signs of Climate Warming Through the Eyes of Yak Herders in Northern Bhutan
A questionnaire survey was conducted to understand how a mountain ecosystem in northern Bhutan is perceived by local yak herders to be changing under climate warming. One hundred elderly herders were selected using a 2-stage sampling. The questionnaire sought information on herders' awareness and perceptions of weather patterns, climate changes,...
Bhutan
2018 - The International Centre of Integrated Mountain Development
Artículo de revista
Implementing access and benefit sharing in eight countries
Since 2012, national teams in eight countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America have been identifying options for policy, legal and administrative mechanisms for the implementation of the multilateral system of access and benefit sharing (MLS) for plant genetic resources. This article summarises if and how access and benefit sharing...
Bhutan - Burkina Faso - Costa Rica - Côte d'Ivoire - Guatemala - Nepal - Rwanda - Uganda
2016 - ILEIA - centre for learning on sustainable agriculture
Libro
Economics of land degradation and improvement
This book on Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement provides with valuable knowledge and information both at the global, regional, and national levels on the costs of land degradation and benefits of taking action against land degradation. A key advantage of this book is that it goes beyond the conventional...
Argentina - Bhutan - China - Ethiopia - India - Kenya - Malawi - Niger - Russian Federation - Senegal - United Republic of Tanzania - Uzbekistan
2016 - Springer International Publishing
Sitio web
Family Farming website
The website about family farmers and their farms, begun in 2014 to show the diversity of family farmers ‘Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth‘ by a collection of first hand experiences (snapshots) as an educational resource for anywhere in the world. The concept of this comes from the International...
Afghanistan - Albania - Algeria - American Samoa - Andorra - Angola - Anguilla - Antarctica - Antigua and Barbuda - Argentina - Armenia - Aruba - Australia - Austria - Azerbaijan - Bahamas - Bahrain - Bangladesh - Barbados - Belarus - Belgium - Belize - Benin - Bermuda - Bhutan - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Botswana - Bouvet Island - Brazil - British Virgin Islands - Brunei Darussalam - Bulgaria - Burkina Faso - Burundi - Cabo Verde - Cambodia - Cameroon - Canada - Cayman Islands - Central African Republic - Chad - Channel Islands - Chile - China - China, Hong Kong SAR - China, Macao SAR - Christmas Island - Cocos (Keeling) Islands - Colombia - Comoros - Congo - Cook Islands - Costa Rica - Croatia - Cuba - Curaçao - Cyprus - Czechia - Côte d'Ivoire - Democratic People's Republic of Korea - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Denmark - Djibouti - Dominica - Dominican Republic - Ecuador - Egypt - El Salvador - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Estonia - Ethiopia - Faroe Islands - Fiji - Finland - France - French Guiana - French Polynesia - French Southern Territories - Gabon - Gambia - Georgia - Germany - Ghana - Gibraltar - Greece - Greenland - Grenada - Guadeloupe - Guam - Guatemala - Guernsey - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Guyana - Haiti - Heard Island and McDonald Islands - Holy See
2014 - Family farms.enviroed4all
Proyecto
Market access and growth intensification project
The Market Access and Growth Intensification Project will operate in the six dzongkhags (districts) of the eastern region, where some 30 per cent of the population of the country lives. The overall goal of the project is to reduce poverty and improve food security and the standards of living of...
Bhutan
2014 - International Fund for International Development (IFAD)
Estudio de caso
Good practices in building innovative rural institutions to increase food security
Case studies
Strong rural organizations like producer groups and cooperatives are crucial to hunger and poverty reduction. They allow small producers toplay a greater role in meeting growing food demand on local, national and international markets, while improving their own economic, social and political opportunities. This thinking connects a series of case...
Benin - Bhutan - Colombia - Egypt - Fiji - Gambia - Israel - Kenya - Nepal - Niger - Philippines - Thailand
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento técnico
Cold water fisheries in the trans-Himalayan countries
The Trans-Himalayan region encompasses a number of countries situated in the midland and highland areas of the Himalayas, Karakoram, and in a broad sense also in Hindu Kush and Pamir. The mountains are characterized by a very low level of human development, with full exploitation or overexploitation of the natural...
Bhutan - China - India - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Myanmar - Nepal - Pakistan
2002
Documento técnico
Fish and fisheries at higher altitudes: Asia
The thirteen papers presented in this publication review fish stocks and fisheries of mountainous areas of Asia: Himalayas (Bhutan, Nepal, northern states of India within the Himalayas), Western Ghats (India), Karakoram-Hindu Kush (Pakistan, Afghanistan), Pamir (Tajikistan), Tien Shan (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan), Altai (Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China), high altitude lakes of Mongolia and...
Afghanistan - Armenia - Bhutan - China - India - Mongolia - Nepal - Pakistan
1999
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