Humans and the ecosystem services they depend on are threatened by climate change. Places with high or growing human population as well as increasing climate variability, have a reduced ability to provide ecosystem services just as the need for these services is most critical. A spiral of vulnerability and ecosystem degradation often ensues in such places. We apply different global conservation...

The study on ‘‘pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated agriculture in Asia’’ by Hussain (2005) shows that, in 26 major and medium-size canal irrigation schemes in Asia, irrigated areas average 20% lower poverty than adjacent rainfed areas; gains are more with pro-poor management of water for farming (PPMWF) and where distribution of farmland or farm water is more equal. These findings, an...

SUSANNE WYMANN Institute of Geography University of Bern 12 Hallerstrasse 3012 Bern; Switzerland ABSTRACT/GIS overlay techniques were used to provide a quantitative historic documentation of deforestation and land-use dynamics in the Middle Mountains of Nepal between 1947 and 1990. Deforestation was most critical in the 1960s, but active afforestation programs in the 1980s. have reversed the pr...

The threat that human-induced climate change poses to many of the least developed countries (LdCs) is profound. Greater dependence on rainfed agriculture and forestry as sources of employment and income makes many of them more vulnerable to climatic changes and variability. many LdCs are already subject to climatic stress because of their location in the Tropics and other areas subject to a hig...

Dwindling water resources combined with meeting the demands for food security require maximizing water use efficiency (WUE) both in rainfed and irrigated agriculture. In this regard, deficit irrigation (DI), defined as the administration of water below full crop-water requirements (evapotranspiration), is a valuable practice to contain irrigation water use. In this study, the mechanism of paclo...

Aim of study: To assess the impacts climate change on local agriculture with a high resolution in Mediterranean region diversity climates.Area Catalonia (NW Spain).Material and methods: Based historical meteorological records regionalization RCP4.5 model created by Catalan Meteorological Service, Papadakis agro-climate classification was calculated for two scenarios. The changes agro-climatic s...