Despite ambitious desertification control programmes, the area of desertified land has expanded continuously since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, with increasingly serious impacts on important industrial and settlement areas. Only in the new millennium is a reversal of this trend in sight.
Negotiations to establish a set of Voluntary Guidelines on the human right to food, held under the auspices of FAO, were successfully completed in autumn 2004, with all 174 FAO member countries signing the final document. However, the negotiations proved to be far from straightforward, as many countries were anxious about the legally binding nature of the Guidelines.
The Voluntary Guidelines on the human right to food provide a further instrument of international law in the fight against world hunger.The Guidelines promise to be a powerful new weapon in combating malnutrition.They forge an alliance between development policy and human rights in the struggle for the right to food. The «human rights approach» has become the new watchword in the fight against hunger.
The Voluntary Guidelines to support the Progressive Realisation of the Right to Food have served the very useful purpose of placing the right to food squarely on the international development policy agenda.To avoid practice lagging behind theory, concerted efforts are required by governments, development agencies and donors to implement these Guidelines to accelerate the realisation of the right to food at country level. Lessons learned from such learning by doing will help show how to put the right to food into practice.
Life without liberty would result in some or the other form of slavery. Liberty cannot be there to a person having an empty stomach.The individual's right to life will have no meaning if the State fails to provide adequate food or food articles.The Indian Constitution provides «right to life» as a Fundamental
Right.That right is given a wide interpretation by the Supreme Court so as to include «right to food» so that democracy and full freedom can be achieved and slavery in any form is avoided.
Development policy has to deal with the full spectrum of fragility in developing countries, which can range from individual deficits, for example in guaranteeing security, to the total collapse of state structures.The scope available to development policy and other external actors is always limited. Nevertheless, starting points are often on hand to achieve some measure of stability and help overcome weak state structures.
The relationship between urban and rural areas has undergone great change in recent years. It is now often difficult to clearly define the borders between the two; instead we find a continuum ranging from agricultural zones to suburbs, informal settlements and urban centers. But do countries and development cooperation policies have the instruments needed to promote a dynamic and balanced development of urban and rural areas and open up opportunities for the people who live there?
Myanmar's natural resources include gems, industrial minerals, oil, and offshore natural gas reserves estimated at 10 trillion cubic feet. The extractive sector accounted for 39 percent of exports in 2010, yet despite its mineral wealth, Myanmar is one of the least developed nations in the world. Its extractive industries are infamously opaque. In the April 2012 elections, the main opposition party won seats in the parliament, a development that could lead to improved transparency...
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La ley de restitución de tierras en Colombia ha sido una de las políticas más importantes para tratar el tema de la reparación efectiva a las víctimas del conflicto armado en el país. Por esto es importante analizar sus resultados en una región como Tumaco en donde la complejidad de su contexto permite evidenciar los alcances de dicha política en relación con la problemática del despojo forzado de sus habitantes.
La investigación se ubica en la Región Tarahumara de México. Trata acerca de cómo diferentes actores sociales interactúan para operar los discursos de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas, presentes en el debate nacional y en los avances jurídico-institucionales, a través de su intervención en redes de mediación política que se articulan en torno a la defensa de estos derechos, particularmente de los relacionados con la tierra, territorio y bosques.
Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar el derecho como un recurso empleado por los actores político-administrativos y sociales estratégicamente y con diversas funciones sociales en las políticas públicas territoriales, tomando como caso de análisis la Política Pública para la Prevención del Desplazamiento Forzado, la Protección, Reconocimiento, Restablecimiento y Reparación de la Población Afectada por el Desplazamiento Forzado en el Municipio de Medellín.