ÖkoFlussPlan (2019-2022)
Conservation of riparian forests with its full range of ecosystem services along the Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan is the overarching objective of this project. The Naryn River on the one hand has not been altered by construction infrastructure like…
All Central Asian countries have low forest cover of less than 15%.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, energy supplies from Russia fell sharply. People turned to firewood as the main source of…
Across Central Asia, agriculture largely depends on irrigation due to arid and semi-arid climatic conditions. Water is abstracted from rivers and diverted into myriads of irrigation channels. In the past 50 years the area of irrigated cropland…
Natural rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) latex is an important industrial component, and demand is projected to increase with the growth of the global economy. Cultivation of rubber is also a potential path out of poverty for many smallholders. However,…
The Humid tropics Project (2012-2016)
At a glanceThe humid tropics with 2.9 billion people, most of which are poor farmers on about 3 billion hectares of land, are critical to local, regional and global food supplies, and central to the maintenance of global biodiversity. A typical…
Working primarily on water governance issues in the Himalayan countries China, Pakistan and Nepal, the project's main concerns are improving the livelihoods and wellbeing of Asian Highland people that is consistent with their own culture through…
The "Asian Highlands", a vast mountainous area including the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau, are the main source of Asia's rivers, sustaining some 3 billion downstream dwellers. In recent years, the Highlands have been warming at greater than global…
Choerospondias axillaris, (Nepali hog plum or hog plum) known as Lapsi (लप्सी) in Nepali, is a tree in the family Anacardiaceae. It is native ofHimalayas to Japan. The fruit is made into pickles, fruit tarts, and sour, spicy candy in Nepal and…
Plant soil feedback systems are representative of the process in which plants influence the soil, in terms of chemistry, geochemistry and biology, which in turn influence the growth of other plants in those soils. Thus, to better understand forest…