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-use efficiency; • productive social safety nets to protect poor and vulnerable groups, especially women and children, to ensure their …
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capacity will be lost in the next 25–50 years unless measures are taken to control sedimentation in reservoirs; approximately 2 …
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Sustainable food production depends on well functioning agro-biological ecosystems: a diversity of living organisms—the biodiversity—plays a critical role in the function of these ecosystems, particularly in the way in which biotic and abiotic processes shape agricultural productivity and...
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fishing to aquaculture. Fishing and aquaculture exploit and alter the biodiversity on which they are based, each in different … but convergent ways. Fishing harvests a much larger range of biodiversity at ecosystem, species and genetic levels than … aquaculture. Nearly 400 aquatic species are cultured and more than 5000 species captured in fisheries. Aquaculture and fishing …
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-allocation of water to agriculture and other uses. However, recent transformations in the agriculture sector (e.g. water efficiency …
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Mining companies’ main business is to focus on their core expertise — best-practice mining development and operation. Resolute Mining Limited has over two decades of expertise, and is one of the largest gold producers listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. In Africa we mine, or have mined,...
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Humans have been trading seafood and seafood products since time immemorial. This trade has commonly crossed national boundaries, but the scale of trade has increased markedly in the past twenty years. By and large the distilled view of nations is that trade is good and there has been...
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assumptions about the capacity of marine systems to sustain large-scale taking, especially when coupled with drastic habitat … capacity to find, extract and transport marine life to distant markets generally exceeds the capacity of the exploited species …
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Before I start my presentation on the very important subject of illegal fishing, I do want to congratulate Dr Meryl …, unregulated and unreported fishing — IUU fishing — on an industrial scale. This principally occurs on the high seas and in the … address the problem. In our sphere of influence, however, IUU fishing is being attacked. Our fight against it focuses on …
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Australia is a vast, dry continent that faces huge challenges in reversing its land degradation processes to achieve a sustainable future. Many of these challenges are similar to those in much of the developing world. Australia is forthrightly tackling them with innovative solutions, and has...
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