28 May 2014

GRAIN | La Vía Campesina

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Enhanced transparency, accountability, and government or donor responsiveness to people needs are imperative to achieve better and more sustainable development results on the ground. The rapid spread of new technologies is transforming the daily lives of millions of poor people around the world and has the potential to be a real game changer for development.

The main objective of this study was to assess the impacts of biofuel investments in local livelihood systems and local economy in Tanzania.

La presente investigación se desarrolla en la parroquia rural de Lloa y analiza la situación actual de la tenencia de la tierra y su incidencia en el desarrollo de la parroquia. Entendiéndose como desarrollo: “una distribución relativamente equitativa de la tierra agrícola, fuertes organizaciones campesinas indígenas locales, altos niveles de apoyo externo, tanto técnico como financiero, y marginalidad económica”.

Just as development means less poverty
or better access to justice, it also means fewer gaps in
wellbeing between males and females. Women's
empowerment and gender equality are development objectives
in their own right, as embodied in the Millennium
Development Goals. It is espoused as well in the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women (CEDAW), ratified by the Philippines in 1981; the

La pertinencia de este análisis deriva en la posibilidad de dar cuenta de situaciones, sujetos y actores, políticas públicas y agencias locales, que constituyen el entramado en la construcción y reproducción de identidades campesinas en Colombia, ya que hoy, hablar de campesinos/as tiene implicaciones políticas si se considera que la nación se ha definido como multicultural.

To ensure that there is sustainability at the community level in its land rights and governance training programme, Land Rights Research and Resources Institute (HAKIARDHI), a Tanzanian national level organization that spearheads land rights of small-scale producers, uses land rights monitors (LRMs) in its program areas. In each of the selected villages of the program districts, two LRMs (a man and a woman) who have received land rights training from HAKIARDHI are democratically elected by villagers.

Each of the post-Soviet Central Asian states inherited both inefficient collectivized agricultural systems and an understanding of the nation rooted in categories defined by Soviet nationality policy. Despite the importance placed on territorial homelands in many contemporary understandings of nationalism, the divergent formal responses to these dual Soviet legacies have generally been studied in isolation from one another.

The process by which different
ecological conditions and historical trajectories interacted
to create different social and cultural systems resulted in
major differences in economic development performance within
Southeast Asia. In the late 19th century, Indonesia, the
Philippines, and Thailand commonly experienced
vent-for-surplus development through exploitation of unused
lands. Nevertheless, different agrarian structures were

Accelerating inclusive growth - the type
that creates more and better jobs and reduces poverty - is a
key challenge for the Philippines. Instead of rising
agricultural productivity paving the way for the development
of a vibrant labor-intensive manufacturing sector and
subsequently of a high-skill services sector, the converse
has taken place in the Philippines. Agricultural
productivity has remained depressed, manufacturing has