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The Karen indigenous people have lived on a mixed agroecosystem centered on traditional rotational farming (RF) for over 300 years in mountainous northern Thailand. Over generations they have accumulated local knowledge on species and ecosystems that has enabled them to provide for their livelihood needs while managing the land and natural...

In Thailand, many people blame the rotational farming (RF) system of the Karen people to be responsible for extensive forest loss. Even the Government has the ideas to limit the area of RF, and set up policies to encourage the conversion of land under RF to commercial crop production particularly maize production. The Institute for Global...

Land cover change (LCC) can have a significant impact on human and environmental well-being. LCC maps derived from historical remote sensing (RS) images are often used to evaluate the impacts of past LC changes and to construct models to predict future LC changes. Free moderate spatial resolution (~30 m) optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR)...

JBF Capacity Building Project held the South and West Asia sub-regional dialogue workshop in Dhulikhel (Kathmandu), Nepal from 29 November to 2 December, 2016, organised by IGES and funded by Japan. ILK holders/experts and experts on ILK from India, Iran, Nepal, and Pakistan attended. The presentation by ILK holders/experts and the discussion...

JBF Capacity Building Project held the South-East and North-East Asia sub-regional dialogue workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 14 to 17 October, 2016, organised by IGES and funded by Japan. ILK holders/experts and experts on ILK from South-East and North-East Asia attended. The presentation by ILK holders/experts and the discussion result of the...

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The brochure on the Japan-France Collaboration on Long-Term Low Carbon Strategies, developed by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), gives an overview of the activities undertaken in 2016-2017 under the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ) and the French Ministry of Environment...

IPBES「花粉媒介者、花粉媒介及び食料生産アセスメントレポートの政策決定者向け要約」は、2016年2月に開催された第４回IPBES総会で採択、発表されました。しかし、その質の高さや日本における課題との関連の深さにも関わらず、レポートが日本語に翻訳されていないこともあり、日本国内ではこの内容まではあまり知られていませんでした。IGESでは、日本のより多くの方々にこの内容について触れて頂けるように、政策決定者向け要約のうち、「主要なメッセージ」（Key messages）に加え、背景情報として冒頭の序文（Foreword）と関連する表を中心に抄訳しました。

The report is about the commission work that we conducted related to mainstreaming biodiversity in Japan including discussion of draft guideline for Japanese companies on business and biodiversity, valuation of positive business activities on biodiversity and international trend on business and biodiversity. It includes updated information of...

This paper analyses roles of integrated approach to establish a regional mechanism for sustainable hydropower development in the Mekong River Basin. Based on a critical review of the current trend of hydropower development, it argued that existing approach of uncoordinated Mekong mainstream hydropower development cannot ensure sustainable...