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As in all semi-arid regions, Tambarga, a small village surrounded by national parks in the landlocked country of Burkina Faso, is affected by the seasonality of the local hydrology. Seasonal and spatial variability of rainfall shapes the livelihoods of rur ...

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The Gourmantche people of South Eastern Burkina recognize Sclerocarya birrea as a locally important agroforestry tree because of its cultural, agricultural, and nutritional value. Although it is understood to provide hydrologic benefits to surrounding crop ...

2012

Small scale rain fed agriculture is the primary livelihood for a large part of the population of Burkina Faso. Regional climate change means that this population is becoming increasingly vulnerable. Additionally, as natural savanna is converted for agricul ...

2011

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In the near future, Switzerland is predicted to be affected by climate change, that is bound to impact both water demand and water supply in multiple ways. While water demand by households, firms and agriculture increases, water supply decreases (ProClim a ...

2011

Humans have altered the Earth’s land surface since the Paleolithic mainly by clearing woody vegetation first to improve hunting and gathering opportunities, and later to provide agricultural cropland. In the Holocene, agriculture was established on nearly ...

2011

2010

Entre recherche, formation et découverte. Un centre pour l'agriculture à Altdorf (Uri).

Sonia Tarchini

Au cœur de l'arc alpin, à l'extrémité Sud du lac des Quatre Cantons, la région d'Altdorf forme un contexte particulier où cohabitent des éléments de caractères très différents. Malgré une surface horizontale restreinte par la topographie de la vallée, le b ...

2010

Comparative study of environmental impacts of imported organic products and regional conventional products – Geneva's case

Florence Escalera

Nowadays, the consumer is worried by his health and by the environmental protection. Two interesting groups, among the others, can be distinguished : persons worried of eating organic products and persons who consume regional products. What about imported ...

2009

Exploitation of northern peatlands and biodiversity maintenance: a conflict between economy and ecology

Alexandre Buttler, Edward Mitchell

Peatlands are ecosystems of exceptional conservation value because of their beauty, biodiversity, importance in global geochemical cycles, and the paleoenvironmental records they preserve. Commercial extraction and drainage for forestry or agriculture have ...

2003

The stable carbon isotope composition of the terrestrial biosphere: Modeling at scales from the leaf to the globe

Jed Oliver Kaplan

Global data sets of the stable carbon isotope composition of plant leaves, of CO2 in canopy air, and of CO2 in the background atmosphere were compiled and compared to results of a global vegetation model (BIOME4) that simulated, at these three scales, the ...

2002

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