Sustainable intensification of agriculture – the role of birds, bees and trees
Sustainable intensification of agriculture – the role of birds, bees and trees
This policy brief is based on results from research carried out between 2006 and 2008 under the project “Conserving biodiversity on the modernising farmed landscapes of Uganda”. The project identified best practices for the long‐term conservation of biodiversity in a sample of typical farmed landscapes in Uganda and established a framework for sustainable agricultural development and monitoring.
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CCI Policy Brief (2010) Sustainable intensification of agriculture – the role of birds, bees and trees. Cambridge Conservation Initiative, Cambridge, UK
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Farming for wild nature: integrating biodiversity and sustainable development in tropical agricultural landscapes in Africa
Agricultural land occupies around 38% of the planet’s land surface and the spread and intensification of agriculture are recognised as two of the most important global threats to wildlife. In developing countries, rapidly increasing human populations and per capita diet expectations are requiring ever increasing food production and there is a growing need to manage…