FAO's Current Engagement in Sustainable Mountain Development

Marquis, Gérard; Baldassarri, Tullia; Hofer, Thomas Franz; Romeo, Rosalaura; Wolter, Petra

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“…Addressing hunger in mountain regions is one such example. Mountain areas in many parts of the world face an ongoing struggle to feed their inhabitants [ 4 , 5 , 6 ]. Such environments are often challenging places to produce food due to factors such as altitude, extreme climates, shallow and erosion-prone soils, sloping lands and distance from population centers.…”

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Identifying Pathways for Improving Household Food Self-Sufficiency Outcomes in the Hills of Nepal

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Maintaining and improving household food self-sufficiency (FSS) in mountain regions is an ongoing challenge. There are many facets to the issue, including comparatively high levels of land fragmentation, challenging terrain and transportation bottlenecks, declining labor availability due to out-migration, and low technical knowledge, among others. Using a nonparametric multivariate approach, we quantified primary associations underlying current levels of FSS in the mid-hills of Nepal. A needs assessment survey was administered to 77 households in Lungaun (Baglung District), Pang (Parbat District), and Pathlekhet (Myagdi District), with a total of 80 variables covering five performance areas; resulting data were analyzed using Classification and Regression Trees. The most parsimonious statistical model for household FSS highlighted associations with agronomic management, including yields of maize and fingermillet within a relay cropping system and adoption of improved crop cultivars. Secondary analyses of the variables retained in the first model again focused primarily on crop and livestock management. It thus appears that continued emphasis on technical agricultural improvements is warranted, independent of factors such as land holding size that, in any case, are very difficult to change through development interventions. Initiatives to increase household FSS in the mid-hills of Nepal will benefit from placing a primary focus on methods of agricultural intensification to improve crop yields and effective technology transfer to increase adoption of these methods.

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Identifying Pathways for Improving Household Food Self-Sufficiency Outcomes in the Hills of Nepal

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“…Several organizations are involved in enhancing mountain ecosystems and agriculture at the global and regional level. (Marquis et al, 2012;Ceci et al, 2011 (Marquis et al, 2012).…”

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“…In line with the main conference themes of Rio+20, FAO was assigned the role of exploring the global resource footprints of agriculture and food systems as well as developing systems of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) globally (Marquis et al, 2012). This role included the development of Climate-Smart Mountain Agriculture.…”

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“…In addition, CSA covers social and economic issues such as gender and ways that resource-poor farmers could earn higher incomes. CSA aims to achieve the four dimensions of food security: availability of food, access to food, utilization of food for adequate nutrition, and ensuring the stability of food supply (Marquis et al, 2012). There are ve speci c goals that will be undertaken from 2018-2021, mainly by Mountain Partnership members with the support of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, where relevant, and at the global level:…”

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Mountain agriculture: Opportunities for harnessing Zero Hunger in Asia

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“…However, these ecosystems are being degraded due to the influence of multiple anthropogenic stressors, ranging from the intensification of agriculture and mining to the growth in tourism, urbanization, exotic species, and -most notably -climate change (Ariza, Maselli, & Kohler, 2013;Buytaert et al, 2006;Körner, 2004;Marquis, Baldassarri, Hofer, Romeo, & Wolter, 2012). The damage leads to serious socio-economic consequences, including desertification, increased poverty, and more frequent conflict (Ariza et al, 2013;Körner et al, 2005).…”

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Using carbon finance to support climate policy objectives in high mountain ecosystems

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Carbon markets and climate finance payments are being used to incentivize the mitigation of CO 2 arising from anthropogenic land-use change in forests, marine ecosystems, and lowland grasslands. However, no such consideration has been given to how these 'carbon finance incentives' might be applied to mountain grasslands and shrublands, ecosystems that contain a substantial amount of carbon. These incentives amount to more than US$350 billion per annum and could potentially support underfunded natural resource management (NRM) activities, which are urgently needed to address numerous stressors impacting these important ecosystems. In the mountain context, NRM activities could include adaptive grazing management, sustainable cropping, ecosystem preservation, ecosystem restoration, and engineered soil conservation measures. This article investigates the stressors, challenges, and priorities related to the NRM of carbon stocks in mountain grasslands and shrublands; why carbon markets and climate finance have not yet been utilized in this context; and, what is required to position mountainbased NRM activities as eligible for carbon finance incentives. Using surveys and interviews triangulated with a systematic literature review, the study found that carbon finance incentives are not well understood, both amongst mountain-focused experts and in the literature. The study also found the required technical methodologies, policy frameworks, and data to be largely undeveloped. This article proposes a top-down conceptual policy framework that can be used to develop key 'enabling factors' with the view of extending the eligibility of carbon markets and climate finance to NRM activities undertaken in mountain grasslands and shrublands in the same way that has been afforded to other ecosystems. Policy relevanceThis is the first study to explicitly highlight the important role that the mountain grasslands and shrublands might play in international climate policy, and how carbon finance mechanisms might support better NRM in these areas. It is also the first to investigate why these incentives have not been adopted thus far. The article concludes by proposing a novel top-down 'carbon incentive enabling' framework that could be driven by governments and mountain development focused organizations so as to capture some of the opportunities offered by carbon-based incentives, and help meet international climate policy objectives.

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FAO's Current Engagement in Sustainable Mountain Development

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Identifying Pathways for Improving Household Food Self-Sufficiency Outcomes in the Hills of Nepal

Identifying Pathways for Improving Household Food Self-Sufficiency Outcomes in the Hills of Nepal

Mountain agriculture: Opportunities for harnessing Zero Hunger in Asia

Using carbon finance to support climate policy objectives in high mountain ecosystems

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