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Lake Naivasha, Kenya Lake Naivasha is a freshwater lake in the Rift Valley North-West of Nairobi. The lake and its surrounding swamps, grass- and woodlands are home to a high diversity of wildlife, among them more than 400 bird species and a...

By Peter Prokosch

Agricultural fires, Madagascar Every year as much as a third of Madagascar burns. Fires set for land-clearing and pastureland spread into adjacent wildlands, causing damage to the islands unique ecosystems.

By Peter Prokosch

Family of a mini farm treating their little rice harvest, Madagascar Madagascar is among the world's poorest countries. As such, people's day-to-day survival is dependent upon natural resource use. They must live off the land that surrounds them, making use of whatever resources they can...

By Peter Prokosch

Himalaya mountain top The warming trend in the Himalayas is higher than the global average – a cause for grave concern. The Himalayas, with the greatest concentration of ice outside the polar regions (and hence dubbed ‘the third pole’...

By Lawrence Hislop

Himalayas and township The Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region is highly dynamic as there are many socioeconomic and environmental drivers of change at play, including climate change. The impacts of these changes challenge the resilience...

By Lawrence Hislop

Nepalese township Climate change is believed to contribute to extreme weather events and possibly to increase the frequency and magnitude of natural hazards and associated disasters, exacting high economic and social costs. Recent...

By Lawrence Hislop

Meat drying, Nepal By 2050, as projected by FAO, global cereal production needs to be around 3000 million tonnes in order to meet demand. However, some estimates suggest that due to environmental degradation in the watersheds, flood...

By Lawrence Hislop

Woman working in field, Nepal Enhancing adaptive capacity and reducing the negative impacts of climate change and other drivers will decrease the vulnerability of mountain communities, including women. The resilience of communities can be bui...

By Lawrence Hislop

Crop in Nepal Downstream impacts of changes in water flow from high mountain glaciers may affect different aspects of human livelihoods. The agricultural and food production systems will be affected by water stress. UNDP (2006) ...

By Lawrence Hislop

township nearby the Himalayas Pakistan has one of the largest man-made contiguous irrigation systems in the Indus basin which is based on the water available from the Indus River and its tributaries. Part of the Indus river flow is provided by glacia...

By Lawrence Hislop

Agricultural land, Nepal Predicting the future response of mountain glaciers is fraught with difficulty. The world’s mountain ranges encompass a huge range of topographic and climatic environments, and each glacier has a unique relationshi...

By Lawrence Hislop

agricultural land around the Himalyas Climate change scenarios for the next about 50 years project higher temperatures in the high Himalayas resulting in more rapid melting of the glaciers which are an important source of water of the Pakistani river...

By Lawrence Hislop

Agricultural land, Nepal Changes in glacier regimes and runoff from snow and ice, combined with changes in precipitation timing and intensity will most likely increase human vulnerability in many areas. Livelihoods are affected as climat...

By Lawrence Hislop

Agricultural land, Nepal The irrigated cropland in the basins of the Asian rivers originating in the Himalayas that are most dependent upon the mountains for water flow, comprises approximately 857,830,000 ha. Water from the Hindu Kush-Himala...

By Lawrence Hislop

cattle, Nepal The Himalayas are the origin of major river systems that support some 3 billion people in 18 countries. In the future, many regions will undoubtedly experience water scarcity (UNEP 2010) due to a reduction in glacial i...

By Lawrence Hislop

Agricultural produce, Nepal Given the high level of uncertainty regarding future runoff levels, and also the highly variable contribution of glacial water and snowmelt from the mountains, future agricultural production faces significant uncer...

By Lawrence Hislop

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