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    This document is a report on a Round Table policy dialogue aimed to address the policy and institutional issues related to livestock-livelihoods-environment-watersheds interactions in semi-arid areas of Maharashtra. This workshop was aimed at presenting the conclusions of the LEAD study, review of the current livestock and watershed policies of Maharashtra, and to initiate a policy dialogue with stakeholders for actionable policy interventions. The report provides a summary of the workshop presentations. This includes a paper on the ‘Livestock Production Systems in Marginal Areas’ by Ranjitha Puskur from IWMI emphasising on the inter-linkages between livestock production, resource endowment and market conditions in watersheds and the management of resources and the policy environment. Other papers such as ‘Groundwater Policies and Situation in the State of Maharashtra’ by S. P. Bagade Additional Director, GSDA and a paper on ‘Livestock – Environment interactions in watershed: Sust ainability issues- some inputs from forestry sector’ by Dr. A. K. Jha, the Joint Director, Social Forestry are included.
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    The Organic Livestock Trade from Developing Countries: Poverty, Policy and Market Issues 2003
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    This study investigates the regulatory framework for organic livestock products in the EU, the international livestock trade, markets for organic livestock products, and compiled case studies of actual and potential organic projects. The recent increase in demand for organic produce both in UK and global markets has involved the sourcing of organic produce from developing countries. There is some concern that some policy and regulatory issues and certification schemes, geared primarily to organi c production in developed countries, have not been designed to encourage the inclusion of the poor, leading to a scenario where many small-scale farmers or producer groups in developing countries may be excluded from an activity which, a previous study for RLD concluded, holds potential for the poor to improve their livelihood status.
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    Relationship between forest fragmentation patterns and deforestation: the case of the Brazilian Amazon
    XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
    2022
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    Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is the result of social, economic, and political pressures and its rates swing accordingly. Deforestation can lead to forest fragmentation, which may mask other negative impacts. Forest fragmentation classes resulting from a Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA) help to establish the spatial distribution of a fragmented landscape. However, the behavior of these classes and their association with deforestation has been little studied. To address this issue, we proposed the analyses of the diversity of fragmentation classes as an indicator of forest fragmentation trajectory over time. We used Shannon's diversity index and MSPA on land-use changes and vegetation cover data to identify the evolution of fragmented forest classes for the period 1985 - 2018. The diversity of the classes was obtained for each year using TraMineR. This value was compared with the cumulated deforestation rate from 1988 to 2018. A correlation analysis was carried out to establish the relationship between diversity of fragmentation classes and deforestation. During the studied period, all but one class of fragmentation increased. Diversity increased over the years with a mean of 0.41 ± 0.07 (range 0.27 to 0.50), even during periods of reduced deforestation. The high correlation between cumulated deforestation and diversity (R^2 = 0.98), indicated the impact on the fragmentation patterns. Specific actions are needed to reduce forest fragmentation beyond those to curb Amazon deforestation. Keywords: Landscape management, Monitoring and data collection, Research ID: 3480574

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