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IUCN Resources Related to Food Security
arborvitae Issue 37
Agriculture and Productivity – conservation imperatives
- Food and fuel: Prices matter more than ever – and the stakes are very high.
- When you ship 1kg of beef around the world, you’re actually shipping about 16,000 litres of water.
- Feature: Global demand for land to produce food, fuel and fibre will likely lead to a large-scale land grab.
- Forest foods: A complex problem needs complex solutions.
- Production and conservation: Temporary solutions in dynamic landscapes.
17 Sep 2008 | Downloads - Publication
Agricultural Ecosystems - Facts and Trends
Understanding agriculture’s dilemma between food security and conservation – new publication
Agriculture is suffering from a growing dilemma: it needs to feed a fast growing world population, and conserve biodiversity and manage natural resources of an increasingly depleted planet. …
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25 Jul 2008 | Downloads - Publication
Protected Landscapes and Agrobiodiversity Values
Amend, Thora, ed.; Brown, Jessica, ed.; Kothari, Ashish, ed.; Phillips, Adrian, ed.; Stolton, Sue, ed.
IUCN; IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas; Germany, Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development; Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit
Series: Values of Protected Landscapes and Seascapes; 1 …
22 Jul 2008 | Downloads - Publication
Agroecology and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty in the Americas
Cohn, Avery; Cook, Jonathan; Fernández, Margarita; Reider, Rebecca; Steward, Corrina (Editors)
International Institute for Environment and Development; Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy
This book seeks to: 1.examine the political, economic, cultural, and ecological dimensions of food sovereignty 2.generate and exchange technically informed and practically applicable knowledge 3.provide an interactive space for the formation of cross-cultural alliances between the U.S. and Latin America among academics and practitioners. …
01 Jan 2006 | Downloads - Publication
Agroecology versus Ecoagriculture: Balancing Food Production and Biodiversity Conservation in the Midst of Social Inequity
Altieri, Miguel A.
IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy …
01 Jan 2004 | Downloads - Publication
Northern Areas Strategy for Sustainable Development Background Paper: Agriculture and Food Security
Hashmi, Ali Asghar; Shafiullah
IUCN Pakistan, Northern Areas Programme; Pakistan, Northern Areas, Planning and Development Dept. …
01 Jan 2003 | Downloads - Publication
Ecoagriculture: Strategies to Feed the World and Save Biodiversity
McNeely, Jeffrey A.; Scherr, Sara J.
Future Harvest, US; IUCN
This comprehensive report outlines a new solution to the biodiversity extinction crisis, in response to its warnings that unless farmers and the world’s poorest peoples can learn to coexist with wildlife, hundreds of species may be lost. The approach, called ecoagriculture, seeks to help farmers, most urgently those living in or near biodiversity hotspots, to grow more food while conserving habitats critical to wildlife. …
01 Jan 2002 | Downloads - Publication
Agriculture and Biodiversity
Balakrishna, P.
IUCN, Regional Biodiversity Programme Asia
Over 800 million human beings suffer from hunger and malnutrition. The future of global food security depends on the success of our efforts in the conservation and enhancement of agrobiodiversity, the biodiversity occurring in plants and animals. It is important that both intensification and diversification of agriculture, particularly in the developing countries, is based on sound ecological foundations essential for sustainable advances in crop and animal productivity. …
01 Jan 2001 | Downloads - Publication
Biofuels, nature and people
Implications for environments and livelihoods …
01 Dec 2007 | Downloads - Document
Explanatory Guide to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Moore, Gerald ; Tymowski, Witold; ISBN 2-8317-0819-2
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03 Dec 2005 | Downloads - Publication
Plant Resources of Arua and Gopinathpur Beels of Manikganj
Mollah, Abdur Rob; Mannan, Md Abdul; Faisal, Arif Mohammad
IUCN Bangladesh; Sustainable Environment Management Programme (SEMP); UNDP; Bangladesh, Ministry of Environment and Forest
Wetlands in Bangladesh are going through a difficult phase caused by exponential degradation and destruction of these ecosystems and dwindling of their valuable resources. Plant resources are more vulnerable due to over-harvesting and unwise exploitation. …
01 Jan 2005 | Downloads - Publication
Interactions between Aquaculture and the Environment: Guide for the Sustainable Development of Mediterranean Aquaculture
IUCN; IUCN, Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation; Federation of European Aquaculture Producers; Spain, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Aquaculture currently faces a significant challenge: how to fulfill the expectation of alleviating the pressure that fishing fleets exercise on fish populations without leading to environmental problems. …
01 Jan 2007 | Downloads - Publication
Securing Sustainable Livelihoods through Wise Use of Wetland Resources
Reflections on the experiences of the Mekong Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use Programme (MWBP)
Friend, Richard
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01 Jan 2007 | Downloads - Publication
Let it Reign: The New Water Paradigm for Global Food Security
Lundqvist, Jan; Falkenmark, Malin; Berntell, Anders; Bergkamp, Ger; Molden, David; Rosegrant, Mark
Stockholm International Water Institute, SE; International Food Policy Research Institute; IUCN; International Water Management Institute
The report presents recommendations for policy and decision makers with regard to sustainable food production, sustainable food consumption and ecological sustainability. …
01 Jan 2005 | Downloads - Publication
Valuing the Role of Aquatic Resources in Livelihoods: Economic Aspects of Community Wetland Management in Stoeng Treng Ramsar Site, Cambodia
Emerton, Lucy, ed.; Chong, Joanne
IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative; IUCN, Ecosystems and Livelihoods Group Asia
Wetlands are vital to the livelihoods of hundred of millions of people residing in the Lower Mekong region, and particularly to the food security of many of the rural poor. This document reports on a study whose aim was to provide guidance on the use of environmental economic assessment methodologies to support wetlands management for poverty alleviation. …
01 Jan 2005 | Downloads - Publication
The Role and Nutritional Value of Aquatic Resources in the Livelihoods of Rural People
A Participatory Assessment in Attapeu Province, Lao PDR. A contribution to the Dialogue on Water, Food and the Environment.
Meusch, Eric; Yhoung-Aree, Jintana; Friend, Richard; Funge-Smith, Simon
IUCN; FAO, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, TH; IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative …
30 Jun 2003 | Downloads - Publication
Artisanal Fishing, Sustainable Development and Co-Management of Resources: Analysis of a Successful Project in West Africa
Baran, Eric; Tous, Philippe
IUCN Guinea-Bissau
This document reports on a project for the co-management and valorization of fisheries resources, carried out by IUCN Guinea-Bissau since 1991 (Rio Grande de Buba region). It aims to provide a summary analysis of the approach taken by the project and its achievements, in order to provide a set of guidelines and lessons learned which will enable replication of the project in other sites. …
01 Jan 2000 | Downloads - Publication
The Development of the Lake Victoria Fishery: A Boon or Bane for Food Security?
Abila, Richard O.
IUCN, Regional Office for Eastern Africa …
01 Jan 2000 | Downloads - Publication
Creating a Sea Change: The WWF/IUCN Marine Policy
Hinrichsen, Don; Wells, Susan M., ed.
IUCN US; WWF
WWF and IUCN have joined forces to outline a policy that will address the complexity of the oceans and coasts as well as our dependency on them. The challenge of protecting and sustainably managing marine natural resources, the last great source of wild-caught food on this planet, is a daunting one. The document sets out the goals to be attained and the guiding principles by which these objectives can be achieved. …
01 Jan 1998 | Downloads - Publication
‘Night Time Spinach’ Conservation and Livelihood Implications of Wild Meat Use in Refugee Situations in North-Western Tanzania
Jambiya, G.; Milledge, S.; Mtango, N.
TRAFFIC East/Southern Africa …
01 Jan 2007 | Downloads - Publication
Conservation and Development Interventions at the Wildlife/Livestock Interface: Implications for Wildlife, Livestock and Human Health
Osofsky, Steven A.; Cleaveland, Sarah; Karesh, William B.; Kock, Michael D.; Nyhus, Philip J.; Starr, Lisa; Yang, Angela (Editors)
IUCN Species Survival Commission; Wildlife Conservation Society
This volume focuses on several themes of critical importance to the future of animal agriculture, wildlife, and, of course, people: competition over grazing and water resources, disease mitigation, local and global food security and other potential sources of conflict related to the overall challenges of land-use planning and the pervasive reality of resource constraints. …
01 Jan 2005 | Downloads - Publication
Links between Biodiversity Conservation, Livelihoods and Food Security: The Sustainable Use of Wild Species for Meat
Mainka, Susan A., ed.; Trivedi, Mandar, ed.
IUCN Species Survival Commission; FAO; TRAFFIC International
The global use of wild animals for meat is now the primary illegal activity in many protected areas, and growing human populations and a lack of livelihood options suggest that demand for wild meat is likely to continue to rise. …
01 Jan 2002 | Downloads - Publication
