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Meeting China’s Demands for Imported Wood and Wood Fibre

Midgley, Stephen - Crawford Fund - 2005

. This growth offers opportunities and challenges for suppliers of raw materials and services. The high demand for wood has …

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Forests for Woods’ Sake: The Demand for Primary Wood Products to 2020

De Fegely, Rob - Crawford Fund - 2005

This presentation covers the main factors driving demand for wood products, global and regional demand to 2020, the … significance of developing countries in supply and demand, and the role of Australia in Asia-Pacific. …

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Meating and Milking Global Demand: Stakes for Small-Scale Farmers in Developing Countries

Delgado, Christopher L.; Rosegrant, Mark W.; Wada, Nikolas - Crawford Fund - 2003

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The scramble for natural resources: How can science help?

Rijsberman, Frank - Crawford Fund - 2012

Humanity is facing its greatest challenge. To produce 70% more food by 2050 without destroying the environment means doing much more with less. Partly due to the abundant food and record-low food prices achieved by the Green Revolution, overseas development assistance for agriculture dropped...

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Forest Biodiversity, Climate Change and Governance

Tacconi, Luca - Crawford Fund - 2010

The main drivers of tropical forest biodiversity loss are land clearing for agriculture, pasture and timber plantation development, followed by logging activities that degrade forests. Deforestation and forest degradation also significantly contribute to climate change, given that they...

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Agricultural Biotechnology, Gene Flow and Biodiversity

Higgins, T.J. - Crawford Fund - 2010

A sustainable strategy to nourish the planet and its people must also promote biodiversity conservation. This strategy will have to include reduction in land degradation and unsustainable overuse of fertilisers, pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and irrigation water. A case can be made for...

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Biodiversity, Nature and Food Security: A Global Perspective

Samper, Cristian - Crawford Fund - 2010

Biodiversity is the basis for agriculture and for a sustainable future. More than 1.9 million living species have been described; millions more have gone extinct, including major branches of the tree of life. The distribution of this biological diversity is variable in space and time, although it...

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Impacts on Capture Fisheries and Aquaculture

Lewis, Rob - Crawford Fund - 2008

Over the last two hundred years the impact of industrial-scale fishing on fish stocks and their sustainability has been recognised and sought to be addressed or managed. This impact has resulted in some stocks collapsing, many being exploited at maximum or non–sustainable levels, with a...

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Forests and Climate Change: Cause, Casualty and the Opportunity to Capture Co-Benefits

Seymour, Frances - Crawford Fund - 2008

The relationships between forests and climate change are complex and multidimensional. Deforestation and forest degradation are now recognised to be a globally significant source of greenhouse gas emissions, and it is asserted that reduction of forest-based emissions may be among the least...

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Disease Emergence and Food Security: Global Impact of Pathogens on Sustainable Aquaculture Production

Walker, Peter J. - Crawford Fund - 2004

industry to the expanding world population is underscored by the growing gap between supply and demand for seafood. However … Latin America, with annual losses of up to US$3 billion. Devastating losses have also hit the salmon farming industries of … Europe and North America, the diverse fish farming industries of Japan, Taiwan and China, and shellfish production in Asia …

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