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Local livelihood in the Lower Songkhram Basin, Thailand
Country：Thailand
Ministry of Natural and Resources and Environment, Thailand
Map Location: Introduction: The Lower Songkhram River Basin encompasses a broad range of wetland habitat types associated with a functional floodplain ecosystem, linked to the Mekong River.
The use of Agrobiodiversity by indigenous and traditional agricultural communities in: Adapting to climate change
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Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research
UNDERSTANDING ADAPTATION Together with increasing temperatures, climate change also leads to increasingly unpredictable and variable rainfall (both in amount and timing), changing seasonal patterns and an increasing frequency of extreme weather events, floods, droughts and .re.
Community Forestry in Nepal
Country：Nepal
Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, Nepal
Back Ground Community forestry has achieved broad global acclaim over the past three decades as a successful model for natural resource management that is innovative, people-centered and effective.
Biodiversity Conservation through Domestication of High Value Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Mountain Ecological Landscapes of Nepal
Country：Nepal
Kathmandu Forestry College
1.Introduction In recent years, bio-diversity conservation and poverty reduction through effective use and management of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) has become a fervent agenda of many scientists and development practitioners in the mountain region
Training for Capacity Development on Biodiversity conservation and rural development
Country：Japan
JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency)
1. Concept 1) Background of the Training The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is an independent administrative institution responsible for the implementation of bilateral components of Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA).
Reintroduction Project of the Oriental White Stork for Coexistence with Humans in Satoyama areas, Hyogo, Japan
Country：Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Governement
INTRODUCTION The Oriental White Stork (Ciconia boyciana) is a species of bird that inhabits river valleys, wet meadows, and marshes with scattered clumps of the trees (Hancock et al. 1992).
A review of policy actions for more resilient land management in the upper watersheds of Davao
Country：Philippine
1.Description of the Problem/ Challenge The challenge today in the Marilog area is the serious degradation of the ecosystems, including loss of forest cover, soil erosion and deteriorating water quality.
Waterbird conservation promotes important energy flow between rice paddies and nearby Important Bird Areas in Cuba
Country：Cuba
Birdlife International
1.Regional Profile and the importance of rice cultivation in the national and local economy Cuba is the largest and most westerly island of the insular Caribbean, accounting for over 50% of the region’s land area. Mainland Cuba is 1,250 km long and averages 150 km wide.
Working for the Living in Harmony with Nature, Aichi’s Efforts toward Ecosystem Networking
Country：Japan
Aichi Prefectural Government
Introduction The Aichi Targets of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 adopted at the tenth Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10) in 2010, to achieve address the underlying causes of biodiversity loss by mainstreaming biodiversity across government and society, the vision of this Strategic Plan is a world of “Living in harmony with nature.”
Passerano Marmorito’s bio-cultural landscape
Country：Italy
AGER International Agency for the Protection of Bio cultural Landscape
Passerano Marmorito (hereafter referred to as “Passerano”) is a little village located in Piedmont, North-West Italy, in a hilly wooded region in the Asti province. Here you can still feel the old political-administrative identity of the Radicati and Cocconato noble families that held the power nearly up to the 15th century.
Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor, a field demonstration model
Country：Madagascar
Conservation International
Background The Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor (CAZ) has long been regarded as one of Madagascar’s top conservation priorities and numerous studies have catalogued its rich biodiversity.
Community-based adapatation in Namibia – a tool to enhance conservation tillage practices
Country：Namibia
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Introduction Local climate change and its variability pose greater risks for vulnerable, poor, and marginalized communities due to the physical impact it makes there.
Promoting co-management of socio-ecological landscapes in flood dependent agroforestry, pastoral and fishery systems of eastwards flowing rivers of Eastern Africa through scientific research and indigenous knowledge
Country：Kenya
Kenya Wetlands Biodiversity Research Team (KENWEB)
Project concept Problem statement: Over the last fifty years, Eastern African wetlands in general and the lower floodplains in particular, have experienced major changes due to climate change, land use changes, upper catchment impoundments, agricultural irrigation schemes and species introductions.
Characteristics and dynamics of Agras field system in Galicia
Country：Spain
Universidad de Vigo
El objetivo principal de esta investigación es el análisis de la dinámica de los paisajes agrarios tradicionales de agras en la comunidad gallega con el fin de aportar datos sobre su valor histórico-cultural, su distribución espacial y temporal, así como su dinámica evolutiva reciente, que nos permitan reflexionar sobre su persistencia y perspectivas de conservación.
Natural Resource Management in the Critical Habitat of Western Siem Pang
Country：Cambodia
BirdLife International
1. General Description and Regional Context The northern and eastern plains of Cambodia represent the most intact remnant ecosystem of a landscape that is thought to have once dominated southern Indochina and Thailand (Hout et al., 2003).
Abrolhos seascape, a field demonstration model
Country：Brazil
Conservation International
Background The Abrolhos Region is located off the southern coast of the State of Bahia, Brazil (Figure 1).
Small Scale Catchment Management in Malawi
Country：Malawi
United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies
Lake Malawi, the third largest lake in Africa, has the greatest number of endemic fish species in the world and is a biodiversity hotspot.
Creation and Management of Diverse Secondary Forest in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Country：Indonesia
Around Lore Lindu National Park (Taman Nasional Lore Lindu) in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, there is a mosaic-like landscape, due to particular land-use patterns. The indigenous inhabitants recognize the various land-use areas by a detailed description of vegetation using a comprehensive nomenclature system and a rule-based system of resource use.
The Ayllu System of the Potato Park, Cusco, Peru
Country：Peru
United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies
The Potato Park is a unique model of holistic conservation of the Andean traditional landscape with a focus on conservation of agrobiodiversity (Argumedo, 2008).
Land Use and Biodiversity Patterns on Chacras in Northeast Argentina
Country：Argentina
While extremely long longitudinally, the Latin America alone cover a broad range of latitudes and accompanying climates, from tropical in the north to polar in the south. Argentina, which is situated at the southern tip of South America, is a major agricultural producer, and is therefore home to many secondary natural environments such as farmland.
