Northeast Asia

Agricultural experts, frustrated with the slow progress on food security issues in climate talks, have called on scientists to aggressively promote rapid, global action onsustainable agriculture.

This article identifies the future challenges that cities face in their ability to create well-being, particularly for urban poor communities, as a result of the compound effect generated by climate change—distinguishing between d...

The Inter Press Service shares a story from Inner Mongolia China of how the community is fighting severe sandification and mobile deserts. As the sand progressively degrades the farmland, growing poverty creates a vicious cycle. A...

The Kailash Sacred Landscape (KSL) spreads across a vast region that includes remote parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and contiguous areas of Nepal and India. This area is historically, ecologically, and culturally in...

Rural mountain communities are highly vulnerable to the changes occurring in their landscape due to climatic and other factors (including demographic changes and migration). If they could understand the complexities of their respe...

Pollinators provide pollination services that are crucial for the productivity of agricultural and natural ecosystems. It has been estimated that over three-quarters of the world’s crops and over 80% of all flowering plants depend...

The Kangchanjunga landscape, shared by Bhutan, India, and Nepal, is one of the seven transboundary landscapes identified by ICIMOD for development of regional cooperation for effective conservation and management of natural resour...

The greater Himalayan region boasts a rich variety of genetic resources, species, and ecosystems of global importance. Men and women depend on biodiversity resources to meet their cultural, socioeconomic, and environmental needs,...

This new research paper discusses the contexts of and recent negotiations in Technology Transfer, Sustainable Development and Climate Change. In terms of proprietary rights, the author categorizes technologies and related products...

Despite the increase in attention to and practice of community-based adaptation, there remains a lack of participatory, practical, replicable and relevant methodologies for measuring, monitoring and evaluating changes in vulnerabi...