Meet district participatory land use team member, Patrick – also known as the peacemaker – who helps communities implement CGIAR’s Joint Village Land Use Planning process. Learn how the process can help pastoral and farming communities mutually agree on how to use shared land so that everyone can manage and conserve resources peacefully, to achieve...
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
As a primary concern in the ecosystem, understanding the impact of spatial heterogeneity of ecological networks on the development of environmental sustainability has overarching significance. The Tibetan Plateau’s edge is a vital contribution to the study of the plateau’s ecological network. However, there are few studies and explorations on the c...
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Nowadays, limited bike parking spaces have been a severe problem to be solved in the Netherlands. Shared bikes are considered ideal solutions, as well as other emerging shared micromobility modes, e.g., shared e-bikes, e-scooters and e-mopeds, since they can help utilise vehicles better and alleviate more occupying land space. Moreover, shared micr...
Colfer and Prabhu build on concerns highlighted in the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests and Land Use, recognizing the ‘wickedness’ of climate change and other problems bedeviling the Earth and its peoples. This chapter, in response, argues for the use of collaborative, bottom-up approaches where learning and adaptation are central features. T...
Water security is a central challenge for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region that renders water budgeting significantly important. To carefully use water resources, the region needs to understand the behaviour, patterns, and responses of its water-dependent systems. To this end, this study employs the water accounting approach and inves...
Agricultural land use and practices have important implications for climate change mitigation and adaptation. It is, therefore, important to develop methods of monitoring and quantifying the extent of crop types and cropping practices. A machine learning approach using random forest classification was applied to Sentinel-1 and 2 satellite imagery a...
This is a report on a packaging exercise for the Tanzania land use planning innovation. It covers the evaluation process for Tanzania's readiness and use of innovative land use planning. The reports include identifying and selecting key solutions and activities necessary to scale the innovation and key actions needed to enhance the readiness and us...
Massive SLM/CSA practices have been implemented for the last four decades in various agro-ecologies of Ethiopia. Nevertheless, these practices were not well catalogued in illustrative (pictorial) representation. Cataloguing Sustainable Land management (SLM) and Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices, technologies and approaches are important in ...
