Horn of Africa sees 'worst drought in 60 years'
More than 10 million people are thought to be affected across the
region.
The UN now classifies large areas of Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and
Kenya as a crisis or an emergency.
Charity Save the Children says drought and war in Somalia has led to
unprecedented numbers fleeing across the border into Kenya, with about
1,300 people arriving every day
More at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13944550
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Tuesday 28 June 2011
Sunday 26 June 2011
GUIDE FOR NEGOTIATORS OF MULTILATERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS
GUIDE FOR NEGOTIATORS OF MULTILATERAL
ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS
http://www.unep.org/dec/docs/Guide%20for%20Negotiators%20of%20MEAs.pdf
ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS
http://www.unep.org/dec/docs/Guide%20for%20Negotiators%20of%20MEAs.pdf
Oxford Food Security Forum Call for Papers: Urban Food Security in Africa: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Global Dimensions
CALL FOR PAPERS
Oxford Food Security Forum
Conference
2011-2012
Urban Food Security in Africa:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Global Dimensions
This conference aims to convene scholars, students, and practitioners from a variety of departments in order to share current research and to facilitate future collaborations related to urban food security in Africa.
We are announcing a call for papers (~3,000 words/15-minute presentations) for our food security conference scheduled for the 5th Week of Oxford Hilary Term 2012 (date and venue in Oxford TBC, tentatively 18th February 2012).
Students and researchers from African Studies, Anthropology, Development Studies, Economics, Governance, International Relations, Migration, Politics, Public Health, and other disciplines are welcome to submit abstracts on an ongoing basis (maximum 500 words).
Final deadline for paper abstracts: 31 October 2011.
Conference Sub-themes:
a) Food Sources: Informal Markets, Supermarkets, Hyper-markets
b) Exploring the Juncture of Poverty and Food Security
c) Malnutrition: What are the Urban Poor Eating and Why?
d) Rural-Urban Linkages and Livelihoods
e) Probing the Potential of Urban Agriculture
f) HIV/AIDS and Food Security
g) Migration and Food Security
h) Global Price Dynamics, Food Commodities, and Food Futures
i) Food Security and Urban Social Networks
j) Within-Household Dynamics and Food Access/Utilization
Send abstracts and questions to: foodsecurityoxford@gmail.com
Serena Stein, graduate student Development Studies
Hannah Dawson, graduate student Development Studies
Adam Gilbertson, graduate student Anthropology
Oxford Food Security Forum
University of Oxford
[ANFES] FW: ENB coverage of the Rotterdam (PIC) Convention COP5
The Earth Negotiations Bulletin is covering the fifth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention. Photos and daily reports in English, French and Spanish are available at http://www.iisd.ca/chemical/pic/cop5/
Negotiating and Implementing MEAs: A Manual for NGOs
Negotiating and Implementing MEAs: A Manual for NGOs
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are crucial actors and partners,
both in the negotiations and the implementation
of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and the wider
environmental and sustainability challenges facing the
world in the 21st century. They are often well placed to reach local
communities and to be an important bridge and interface
between citizens, governments and multilateral organizations like the
UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
http://www.unep.org/dec/docs/MEAs%20Final.pdf
More resources at:
http://www.unep.org/dec/Information_Resources/Publications.asp
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are crucial actors and partners,
both in the negotiations and the implementation
of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and the wider
environmental and sustainability challenges facing the
world in the 21st century. They are often well placed to reach local
communities and to be an important bridge and interface
between citizens, governments and multilateral organizations like the
UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
http://www.unep.org/dec/docs/MEAs%20Final.pdf
More resources at:
http://www.unep.org/dec/Information_Resources/Publications.asp
Sunday 19 June 2011
The African Herbal pharmacopoeia
The African Herbal pharmacopoeia
More at:
http://www.earthprint.com/productfocus.php?id=AAMPS002
AAMPS Herbal Pharmacopoeia provides comprehensive and up-to-date botanical, commercial and phytochemical information for over fifty of the most important medicinal plants used in Africa; prepared by Africa’s leading scientists and reviewed by an international expert panel. This unique pharmacopoeia contains information for producers, collectors and traders in medicinal plants and extracts, and technical data needed by researchers, manufacturers and practitioners.
AAMPS Herbal Pharmacopoeia provides comprehensive and up-to-date botanical, commercial and phytochemical information for over fifty of the most important medicinal plants used in Africa; prepared by Africa’s leading scientists and reviewed by an international expert panel. This unique pharmacopoeia contains information for producers, collectors and traders in medicinal plants and extracts, and technical data needed by researchers, manufacturers and practitioners.
The African continent contains 25% of the world’s plant species, but under 8% of medicinal plants commercially utilized are of African origin, mostly because information on traditional-uses is transferred orally between generations. Medicinal plants are vital resources to global pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and fragrance industries, over 40% of licensed drugs are of plant-origin. Rapid deforestation is means loss of medicinal plants, together with accompanying traditional knowledge. This first African Herbal Pharmacopoeia comes at a critical moment in the history of African herbal medicine.
The Pharmacopoeia comprises comprehensive and up-to-date botanical, commercial and phytochemical information for over fifty most important medicinal plants used in Africa; prepared by Africa’s leading scientists and reviewed by an international expert panel. This unique pharmacopoeia contains information for producers, collectors and traders in medicinal plants/extracts, and technical data needed by researchers, manufacturers and practitioners. Our dream is that this work will not only generate income and employment in Africa but also unlock the health-benefits of many unrealized medicinal plants.
Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands contain a quarter of the world’s plant species. However under 8% of medicinal plants commercially utilized are of African origin, mostly due to the fact that information on traditional uses has seldom been written but transferred orally between generations. Medicinal plants are an extremely important resource for global pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and fragrance industries, over 40% of licensed drugs are of plant origin. WHO estimate that 80% of the world’s population depends on medicinal plants for their primary health-care, in much of rural Africa it is the only form of therapy that exists. Deforestation rate of 1% per annum is the highest rate in the world, leading to extinction of many medicinal plants. Loss of plants also means loss of accompanying traditional knowledge. This first African Herbal Pharmacopoeia hence comes at a critical moment in the history of African herbal medicine.
The Pharmacopoeia comprises comprehensive and up-to-date botanical, commercial and phytochemical information for over fifty of the most important medicinal plants used in Africa; prepared by Africa’s leading scientists and reviewed by an international expert panel. This unique pharmacopoeia contains information for producers, collectors and traders in medicinal plants and extracts, and technical data needed by researchers, manufacturers and practitioners. The preparation of the African Herbal Pharmacopoeia has taken 31 experts in African medicinal plants and herbal medicine 6 years of work to compile. Our dream is that this work will not only generate income and employment for those working in Africa but also unlock the health benefits of these unrealised medicinal plants.
[ECSNet] CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agr iculture and Food Security (CCAFS) call for proposals for the 'Farms of the Future' re search project
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased announce that the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has launched an Open call for Proposals for the 'Farms of the Future'research project', aiming at the:
Development of a method to study farmer's social, cultural and gender specific barriers for enabling behavioral change and improve adaptive capacity, based on farmers' exchanges between climatic analogues locations
The project will particularly improve understanding of social and cultural perceptions of future climates, local practices and available tools for enabling change. The adopted approach will allow the participatory diagnosis of capacities and needs, thus aiding in the design of community-appropriate adaptation strategies.
Objectives: We are looking forward to receiving innovative ideas from scientists from around the world to address the following specific objectives:
1. To devise, test and validate the 'Farms of the future' approach built on farmer-to-farmer exchanges to analogue sites as a valuable option to improve adaptive capacity and support knowledge transfer.
2. To improve understanding of local practices and available tools for enabling change
Grant: The allocated grant will be US$ 100,000 (with additional direct support in the regional logistics for the farmer exchanges to the sum of US$ 30k for each of the 3 CCAFS regions: East Africa, West Africa and Indo-Gangetic Plains).
Deadline: We kindly invite you to submit your proposals not later than July 15th 2011
Applicability:
This call is open to all types of organization or individuals, and strong preference is given to research groups with proven track record in sociology or anthropology and rural development.
Evaluation criteria:
· Fit with the terms of reference and likelihood of success of approach
· Innovativeness in methodologies proposed
· Track record in similar research of proposing individual, team or alliance
If you don't submit a proposal yourself, we'll deeply appreciate your assistance in circulating this message within your institution or networks who could be interested.
Enclosed you will find the ToR of this Call and guidelines for submission.
We are looking forward to receiving innovative ideas!
Thank you in advance for your interest and my apologies for cross-posting,
With best regards,
Osana Bonilla-Findji
Science Officer CCAFS, Theme1: Adaptation Pathways under Progressive Climate Change
International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
AA 6713, Cali
Colombia
Phone: +57 2 445 0000 Ext. 3710
Skype: o.s.a.n.a
The African Herbal pharmacopoeia
The African Herbal pharmacopoeia
More at:
http://www.aamps.org/en/
http://www.earthprint.com/productfocus.php?id=AAMPS002
AAMPS Herbal Pharmacopoeia provides comprehensive and up-to-date
botanical, commercial and phytochemical information for over fifty of
the most important medicinal plants used in Africa; prepared by
Africa's leading scientists and reviewed by an international expert
panel. This unique pharmacopoeia contains information for producers,
collectors and traders in medicinal plants and extracts, and technical
data needed by researchers, manufacturers and practitioners.
The African continent contains 25% of the world's plant species, but
under 8% of medicinal plants commercially utilized are of African
origin, mostly because information on traditional-uses is transferred
orally between generations. Medicinal plants are vital resources to
global pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and fragrance industries, over 40% of
licensed drugs are of plant-origin. Rapid deforestation is means loss
of medicinal plants, together with accompanying traditional knowledge.
This first African Herbal Pharmacopoeia comes at a critical moment in
the history of African herbal medicine.
The Pharmacopoeia comprises comprehensive and up-to-date botanical,
commercial and phytochemical information for over fifty most important
medicinal plants used in Africa; prepared by Africa's leading
scientists and reviewed by an international expert panel. This unique
pharmacopoeia contains information for producers, collectors and
traders in medicinal plants/extracts, and technical data needed by
researchers, manufacturers and practitioners. Our dream is that this
work will not only generate income and employment in Africa but also
unlock the health-benefits of many unrealized medicinal plants.
Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands contain a quarter of
the world's plant species. However under 8% of medicinal plants
commercially utilized are of African origin, mostly due to the fact
that information on traditional uses has seldom been written but
transferred orally between generations. Medicinal plants are an
extremely important resource for global pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and
fragrance industries, over 40% of licensed drugs are of plant origin.
WHO estimate that 80% of the world's population depends on medicinal
plants for their primary health-care, in much of rural Africa it is
the only form of therapy that exists. Deforestation rate of 1% per
annum is the highest rate in the world, leading to extinction of many
medicinal plants. Loss of plants also means loss of accompanying
traditional knowledge. This first African Herbal Pharmacopoeia hence
comes at a critical moment in the history of African herbal medicine.
The Pharmacopoeia comprises comprehensive and up-to-date botanical,
commercial and phytochemical information for over fifty of the most
important medicinal plants used in Africa; prepared by Africa's
leading scientists and reviewed by an international expert panel. This
unique pharmacopoeia contains information for producers, collectors
and traders in medicinal plants and extracts, and technical data
needed by researchers, manufacturers and practitioners. The
preparation of the African Herbal Pharmacopoeia has taken 31 experts
in African medicinal plants and herbal medicine 6 years of work to
compile. Our dream is that this work will not only generate income and
employment for those working in Africa but also unlock the health
benefits of these unrealised medicinal plants.
http://www.earthprint.com/productfocus.php?id=AAMPS002
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More at:
http://www.aamps.org/en/
http://www.earthprint.com/productfocus.php?id=AAMPS002
AAMPS Herbal Pharmacopoeia provides comprehensive and up-to-date
botanical, commercial and phytochemical information for over fifty of
the most important medicinal plants used in Africa; prepared by
Africa's leading scientists and reviewed by an international expert
panel. This unique pharmacopoeia contains information for producers,
collectors and traders in medicinal plants and extracts, and technical
data needed by researchers, manufacturers and practitioners.
The African continent contains 25% of the world's plant species, but
under 8% of medicinal plants commercially utilized are of African
origin, mostly because information on traditional-uses is transferred
orally between generations. Medicinal plants are vital resources to
global pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and fragrance industries, over 40% of
licensed drugs are of plant-origin. Rapid deforestation is means loss
of medicinal plants, together with accompanying traditional knowledge.
This first African Herbal Pharmacopoeia comes at a critical moment in
the history of African herbal medicine.
The Pharmacopoeia comprises comprehensive and up-to-date botanical,
commercial and phytochemical information for over fifty most important
medicinal plants used in Africa; prepared by Africa's leading
scientists and reviewed by an international expert panel. This unique
pharmacopoeia contains information for producers, collectors and
traders in medicinal plants/extracts, and technical data needed by
researchers, manufacturers and practitioners. Our dream is that this
work will not only generate income and employment in Africa but also
unlock the health-benefits of many unrealized medicinal plants.
Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands contain a quarter of
the world's plant species. However under 8% of medicinal plants
commercially utilized are of African origin, mostly due to the fact
that information on traditional uses has seldom been written but
transferred orally between generations. Medicinal plants are an
extremely important resource for global pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and
fragrance industries, over 40% of licensed drugs are of plant origin.
WHO estimate that 80% of the world's population depends on medicinal
plants for their primary health-care, in much of rural Africa it is
the only form of therapy that exists. Deforestation rate of 1% per
annum is the highest rate in the world, leading to extinction of many
medicinal plants. Loss of plants also means loss of accompanying
traditional knowledge. This first African Herbal Pharmacopoeia hence
comes at a critical moment in the history of African herbal medicine.
The Pharmacopoeia comprises comprehensive and up-to-date botanical,
commercial and phytochemical information for over fifty of the most
important medicinal plants used in Africa; prepared by Africa's
leading scientists and reviewed by an international expert panel. This
unique pharmacopoeia contains information for producers, collectors
and traders in medicinal plants and extracts, and technical data
needed by researchers, manufacturers and practitioners. The
preparation of the African Herbal Pharmacopoeia has taken 31 experts
in African medicinal plants and herbal medicine 6 years of work to
compile. Our dream is that this work will not only generate income and
employment for those working in Africa but also unlock the health
benefits of these unrealised medicinal plants.
http://www.earthprint.com/productfocus.php?id=AAMPS002
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[ECSNet] IUCN World Conservation Congress
IUCN is pleased to inform you that the Call for Contributions for the
Forum segment of the 2012 IUCN World Conservation Congress is now
open!
The Congress will take place from 6 to 15 September 2012, in Jeju,
Korea. This Call for Contributions invites you to propose events for
the Forum, the part of Congress which is open to all (from 7 to 11
September 2012).
For more information please contact the IUCN Congress Forum Team at
congressforum@iucn.org
http://www.worldconservationcongress.org/
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Forum segment of the 2012 IUCN World Conservation Congress is now
open!
The Congress will take place from 6 to 15 September 2012, in Jeju,
Korea. This Call for Contributions invites you to propose events for
the Forum, the part of Congress which is open to all (from 7 to 11
September 2012).
For more information please contact the IUCN Congress Forum Team at
congressforum@iucn.org
http://www.worldconservationcongress.org/
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Thursday 2 June 2011
2011-05-29 NRMI: This Issue: Use of Remote Sensing to Assist Farmers in ACP Countries and Some Other Good Things
2011-05-29 NRMI: NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING ITEMS OF INTEREST
This Issue: Use of Remote Sensing to Assist Farmers in ACP Countries and Some Other Good Things
FEEDBACK: Use of Remote Sensing to Assist Farmers in ACP Countries. In May Clare Pedrick wrote,”I am the English Editor of Spore, the magazine on rural development in African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries (you can read it on: http://spore.cta.in/ and am planning to run a feature on remote sensing in an upcoming issue. I'm looking for good examples of remote sensing being used to help farmers and rural communities in developing countries. As well as the bigger schemes, e.g. satellite monitoring for crop forecasting, I'm particularly interested in finding out about smaller initiatives that can actually help people in the field. I'd be very grateful for any suggestions. Also, anyone good to interview to talk about the advantages and pitfalls.” Here are some sites that may be of interest. If you know of others, please contact Clare at clarepedrick@gmail.com.
Anecksamphant, C. et al. 1999. Meeting the Challenges of Land Degradation in the 21st Century. Conference Report. 2nd International Conference on Land Degradation. Khon Kaen, Thailand. January 25-29, 1999. http://soils.usda.gov/use/worldsoils/landdeg/ld99.html
Budde, Michael E. et al. 2010. Agriculture and Food Availability – Remote Sensing of Agriculture for Food Security Monitoring in the Developing World. http://www.earthzine.org/2010/02/08/agriculture-and-food-availabilityremote-sensing-of-agriculture-for-food-security-monitoring-in-the-developing-world/.
Chandrasekhar, MG et al. 1994. Achievements in Remote Sensing Applications in India http://a-a-r-s.org/acrs/proceeding/ACRS1994/Papers/MSP94-1.htm
Deichmann, Uwe; Wood, Stanley. 2001. GIS, GPS, and remote sensing. 2020 Focus 7 (Appropriate Technology for Sustainable Food), Brief 7 of 9, August 2001 4 p. http://www.iapad.org/publications/ppgis/gis_gps_and_remote_sensing.pdf
Florini, Ann M.; Dehqanzada, Yahya A. 1999. No More Secrets? Policy Implications of Commercial Remote Sensing Satellites. Carnegie Paper 1. https://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=150
Geerders, Paul. 2005. Remote Sensing - Challenges for ACP countries http://knowledge.cta.int/en/Dossiers/S-T-Issues-in-Perspective/Remote-sensing/Articles/Remote-Sensing-Challenges-for-ACP-countries
Gurusamy, Kumari 2007. Creating agricultural drought statistics for developing countries using historic data from satellite images. 9 p. http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/ICAS/papers/P020071113377964694246.pdf
Htun, Kyaw Zaya et al. 2008. Spatial Pattern Analysis of Land Degradation Using Satellite Remote Sensing Data and GIS in Mandalay Watershed, Central Myanmar. 6 p. http://a-a-r-s.org/acrs/proceeding/ACRS2008/Papers/TS%2031.6.pdf
Hyman, Glenn et al. 2003. GIS for Sustainable Development at Local Scales: Applications in the Rural Hillsides, Savannas and Forest Margins of Latin America. Paper for the 19th Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Meeting (ISPRS), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 2000.23 p. http://gisweb.ciat.cgiar.org/sig/download/ghyman/GISforSustainableDevelopmentLocal.pdf
Ishaya, S.; Ifatimehin, O.O. 2009. Application of Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques in Mapping Farming Areas in a part of Abuja, Nigeria. Am .-Eurasian J. Sustain. Agric., 3(1): 3 7 - 44, 2009. http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=olarewaju_ifatimehin&sei-redir=1#search=%22Application+of+Remote+Sensing+and+GIS+Techniques+in+Mapping+Farming+Areas+in+a+part+of+Abuja,+Nigeria."
Jensen, John R. et al. 2006. Remote Sensing Agricultural Crop Type for Sustainable Development in South Africa. Geocarto International 21(2). 14 p. http://www.geocarto.com.hk/cgi-bin/pages1/june06/1_Jensen.pdf
Madukwe, Michael. C. 2006. Delivery of Agricultural Extension Services to Farmers in Developing Countries. http://knowledge.cta.int/en/content/view/full/3009
Malhan, I V; Rao, Shivarama 2007. Agricultural Knowledge Transfer in India: a Study of Prevailing Communication Channels. http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/malhan-rao.htm
Meneses, Carlos et al. n.d. Assessment of high speed internet for remote sensing data acquisition and exchange in Colombia and Latin America. 8 p. http://ciat-library.ciat.cgiar.org/Articulos_Ciat/MenesesInternet2.pdf
NAP. 2008. Emerging technologies to benefit farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia. Committee on a Study of Technologies to Benefit Farmers in Africa and South Asia. Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources. The National Academies Press. 270 p. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12455#toc
NAP.1998. People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science. National Academy Press.l256 p. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=5963#toc
Ogodo, Ochieng' . 2009. Small farmers could cash in on carbon monitoring. SciDev Net. 22 June 2009. http://www.scidev.net/en/news/small-farmers-could-cash-in-on-carbon-monitoring.html
Panchard, Jacques et al. 2008. COMMONSense Net: A Wireless Sensor Network for Resource-Poor Agriculture in the Semiarid Areas of Developing Countries. MIT Press. 17 p. http://itidjournal.org/itid/article/view/244/114
Precision Farming: Dreams and Realities for Indian Agriculture - Misconceptions about Precision Agriculture. http://snsemufarm.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html
Remote Data Collection and Monitoring | MobileActive.org - http://mobileactive.org/research-insights-use-mobile-phone-cameras-supply-chain-management
Rochon, Gilbert L. et al. 2005. Applicability of Near-Real-Time Satellite Data Acquisition and Analysis & Distribution of Geoinformation in Support of African Development. 24 p. www.uneca.org/codi/Documents/WORD/Applicabilityof%20Near-Real-Time.doc
Roy, et al. 2010. Remote Sensing Applicatons. http://www.nrsc.gov.in/RemotePDF/RS%20Application%20Contents.pdf and http://www.nrsc.gov.in/RemotePDF/ to access chapters.
Swain et al. n.d. Low-Altitude Remote Sensing with Unmanned Radio-Controlled Helicopter http://www.docstoc.com/docs/21097187/Low-Altitude-Remote-Sensing-with-Unmanned-Radio-Controlled-Helicopter
Tripathi, Nitesh; Bhattarya, Shefali. 2004. Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and GIS for Participatory Natural Resource Management: State-of-the-Practice. EJISDC 17(3): 1-13 http://www.ejisdc.org/ojs2/index.php/ejisdc/article/viewFile/105/105
Tripathi, Santosh. 2005. Precision farming for small farmers in developing countries: Development of a system to be used and deployment strategy for it. Map India. Poster. http://www.mapindia.org/2005/papers/Poster/227abs.htm
Watson, Bob. N.d. How to assist the small-scale farmer. 17 p. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2537710/How-to-Assist-the-Small-Scale-Farmer
Wersinger, J.-M. 2002. Remote Sensing Systems. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3408800081.html
SOME PUBLICATIONS/URLS OF INTEREST
Benefiting from Earth Observation: Bridging the Data Gap for Adaptation to Climate Change in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region. http://geoportal.icimod.org/symposium2010/Papers.aspx
Lemonick, Michael. 2011. The Great Tree Survey. National Geographic. 219(5): 30, 31, 33.
Mery, G., et al. J. 2010. Forests and Society – Responding to Global Drivers of Change. IUFRO World Series Volume 25. 509 p. and : Katila, P. et al.2010. Policy brief. Making forests work for people and nature - Responding to global drivers of change. IUFRO WFSE. 33 p.. The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) special project World Forests, Society and Environment (WFSE, coordinated by Gerardo Mery) published in 2010 a comprehensive book titled "Forests and Society – Responding to Global Drivers of Change". The book focuses on the main global drivers of change affecting world’s forests and forest dependent people and the challenges and opportunities they create. It also proposes ways to reduce the adverse effects of these drivers and to take advantage of the new opportunities they may bring. This book is a result of a collaborative writing process of over 160 authors from all over the world. A policy brief "Making forests work for people and nature - Responding to global drivers of change" was developed on the basis of the findings and conclusions of the book. We think that the book and the policy brief are of interest for a wide audience and we would like to propose to include information about these publications to GAOF mailing list.The policy brief and the different chapters of the book are available for free download at: http://www.iufro.org/science/special/wfse/wfse-achievements. Printed copies can be ordered from pia.katila@metla.fi. The book and the policy brief are free but we need to charge for mailing costs. From Pia Katila, Metla.
Pereira, Rudiney Soares. 2010. Dynamic Modeling of Land Use and Coverage at Quarta Colônia, RS, Brazil. FIG Congress 2010, Facing the Challenges – Building the Capacity, Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010. 11 p. http://www.fig.net/pub/fig2010/papers/fs03e/fs03e_pereira_ferrari_et_al_4315.pdf
Rangoa, Albert et al. 2009. Unmanned aerial vehicle-based remote sensing for rangeland assessment, monitoring, and management. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 3. http://usda-ars.nmsu.edu/biblio/pdf/09-025.pdf.
Rimal, Bhagawat. 2011. Urban Growth and Land use/Land Cover Change of Biratnagar Sub-Metropolitan City, Nepal. Appl Rem Sens J 2011 2(1):6-15. http://www.asciencejournal.net/asj/index.php/ARS/article/view/155/RIMAL
Seker, Dursun Z., et al 2000. Investigation the distribution of vegetation in Turkey by using remote sensing data and GIS. International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXIII, Part B7. Amsterdam 2000. http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXIII/congress/part7/1357_XXXIII-part7.pdf
Shanwad. U.K. 2006. Action Plan Preparation (Medak Nala) and Impact Assessment (Katangidda Nala) of Watersheds in Gulbarga District Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies. Thesis submitted to the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad. 200 p. http://etd.uasd.edu/ft/th8589.pdf
Travaglia, C. et al. 2001. Preparation of land cover database of Bulgaria through remote sensing and GIS. Environment and Natural Resources Working Paper No. 6, FAO, Rome. 57 p. http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/004/Y0785E/y0785e00.htm#Contents
Uzun, Osman et al. 2011. National and regional landscape classification and mapping of Turkey: Konya closed basin, Suğla Lake and its surrounding area. International Journal of the Physical Sciences 6(3): 550-565,. Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/IJPS http://www.academicjournals.org/ijps/PDF/pdf2011/4Feb/Uzun%20et%20al.pdf
Wang, Y. Q.; Nugranad-Marzilli, J. 2009. Land cover change in Northeast Temperate Network parks 1973-2002. Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/NETN/NRTR — 2009/238. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/netn/inventory/docs/Inventory%20Reports/Land_Cover_Change_FINAL_20091203.pdf
Xiong, Demin et al. 2004. Guidance on using remote sensing applications for environmental analysis in transportation planning. WA-RD 593-2. 6 p. http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/research/reports/fullreports/593.2.pdf
Zidek, Vladimir; Klimanek, Martin. N.d. The Use of GIS and Remote Sensing as Information Support for Landscape Management. 9 p. http://www.herodot.net/conferences/Ayvalik/papers/geotech10.pdf
KEEPING UP-TO-DATE – PRODUCTS, NEWSLETTERS, EMAIL LISTS, JOURNALS. See also http://botany.si.edu/pubs/bcn/links.cfm, http://scholar.google.com/, and Directory of open access journals. http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals.
African Journal of Agricultural Research - www.academicjournals.org/ajar
NWFP-Digest-L - FAO’s NWFP-Digest-L, a free e-mail journal that covers all aspects of non-wood forest products, No. 6/11 may be found on FAO's NWFP home page: www.fao.org/forestry/site/12980/en. You can take part in contributing to the continued success of this newsletter by sharing with the NWFP community any news that you may have regarding research, events, publications and projects. Kindly send such information to NWFP-Digest-L@mailserv.fao.org: We also appreciate any comments or feedback. From Tina Etherington, FAO.i
WORKING SMARTER - WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS, EVENTS, ETC. – See also: http://www.gfis.net/, http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar/ and http://www.iufro.org/info/discover/noticeboard/.
16-19 October 2011. SilviLaser 2011 Conference – Final call for Papers. SilviLaser 2011, the 11th International conference on LiDAR Applications for Assessing Forest Ecosystems, will take place at the University of Tasmania, in Hobart, Australia on 16-19 October 2011. The Conference aims to bring together research scientists and practitioners from around the world to share their experience in the development and application of LiDAR for forest assessment and inventory, and strengthen and develop new linkages between researchers, data providers and product end users. This is the final call for papers with full papers due by 15 June 2011. Further information, and preliminary program, can be found at http://www.silvilaser2011.com/. From Jan Rombouts, ForestrySA..
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