Rural Development BIB

 

► InterCooperation: Forests, landscapes and governance
15. March 2010

This publication brings together the views and experiences of practitioners working in forestry and governance in a large number of countries around the world.

 

► Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months

12. November 2009

JUST months - that's how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by an ice age. The scenario, which comes straight out of Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, was revealed by the most precise record of the climate from palaeohistory ever generated.

 

► Illegal logging responsible for loss of 10 million hectares in Indonesia
05. November 2009

Lush tropical rainforest once covered almost all of Indonesia's 17,000 islands between the Indian and Pacific oceans. And just half a century ago, 80 per cent remained. But since then, rampant logging and burning has destroyed nearly half that cover, and made the country the world's third largest emitter of greenhouses gases after the US and China.

 

► Palm Project Accused of Environmental Destruction
03. November 2009

KAMPALA, Nov 3 (IPS) - It is a public-private partnership intended to reduce Uganda's dependence on imported vegetable oil while creating sustainable jobs and income for several thousand people. Its critics say it's destroying forests with no regard for environmental regulations.

 

► Climate change threatens quarter of Swiss farmland: research
29. October 2009

GENEVA (AFP) – Climate change is already threatening more than a quarter of Switzerland's farmland with frequent and lengthy water shortages, according to official research published Tuesday.

 

► How to combat deforestation in central Brazil?
13. September 2009

“At regional and global levels, especially in inland Amazonia and other regions in southern central Brazil, if the rate of deforestation is not reduced, removal of plant cover can affect rainfall, as has been scientifically demonstrated.”

 

► Huge drop in Amazon Forest Fires in 2008
09. July 2009

New NASA research shows a sharp decline in the amount of smoke over the Amazon during the 2008 burning season, coinciding with a drop in deforestation reported last week by Carlos Minc, Brazil's Environment Minister.

 

► Brazil approves land tenure law that grants 67 Mill. ha of rainforest to settlers
30. June 2009

June 29, 2009: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva last week signed a controversial law granting 67.4 million hectares (166 million acres) of Amazon rainforest land to more than 1 million illegal settlers, reports Reuters.

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