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Facilitated by WWF, the Lower Danube Green Corridor Agreement was signed in 2000 by the governments of Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Moldova, recognizing a need and shared responsibility to protect and manage in a sustainable way one of the most outstanding biodiversity regions in the world. The Lower Danube Green Corridor Declaration pledged to boost protection for 775,000 ha of existing…

The atlas presents a vision , complementary and integrated in various ways intervention in the Amazonian territory and its impacts on indigenous lands . The publication aims to contribute to refl ection and debate on key environmental issues in these areas by offering the reader spatial address some of them intend to support also the actions and strategies of movements and leaders indigenous,…

The areas susceptible to desertification in Brazil include the semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas of tropical surroundings, occupying around 1,340,000 km ² and directly reaching 30 million people. Process resulting from natural causes and also the action of man brings with dramatic consequences for economic and social environmental costs. With the launch in 2004 of the Pan Brazil Program theme…

The Regional Reports on Renewable Energies comprising 30 country analyses on RE potentials and markets in West Africa, East Africa and Central Asia are a substantial contribution to the dissemination of comprehensive and precise knowledge on RE markets and related investment options and thus help to further pave the way for the promotion of RE in these regions. As such the publication addresses…

Many drylands in the world suffer problems of land degradation and desertification derived from human activities and exacerbated by drought. Too often these degradation processes have been endured by the ecosystems for a long time, and, according to forecasts of climate change, are likely to worsen in the future. Ecological restoration combined with adaptive management can be effective tools in…

To produce food, water is consumed by the plants in the field through evaporation and transpiration. The amount of water needed varies with crops and depends from place to place, on local productivity and conditions of available water supply through rainfall or irrigation. Once the product is harvested and becomes available on the market, the water embedded in the product changes status from …