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Expanding Water and Sanitation Services to Low-Income Households : the Case of the La Paz-El Alto Concession

LandLibrary Resource
Agosto, 2012

Bolivia is one of a growing number of
developing countries turning to the private sector to
improve urban water and sanitation services. The
country's first major contract in the sector, a
twenty-five-year concession for the neighboring cities of La

Land Degradation and Population Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Machakos Experience

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Reports & Research
Julio, 2012

An issue which has generated much
concern has been the potential link between low incomes and
resource degradation. This report presents the results of a
study which investigated this question. Machakos District is
a relatively low income and agriculturally marginal district

Biorefineries: Relocating Biomass Refineries to the Rural Area

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Peer-reviewed publication
Julio, 2012

The field for application of biomass is rising. The demand for food and feeding stuff rises while at the same time energy, chemicals and other materials also need to be produced from biomass because of decreasing fossil resources. However, the biorefinery ideas and concepts can help to use the limited renewable raw materials more efficiently than today.

A ‘Land Sovereignty’ Alternative? Towards a Peoples’ Counter-Enclosure

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Reports & Research
Julio, 2012
África

Argues the need to transition the people’s demand for land from ‘land reform’ and ‘land tenure security’ to ‘land sovereignty’. A peoples’ enclosure campaign is needed to help farmers to proactively assert their political control over their remaining lands against potential and actual threats of corporate or state enclosure.

Land tenure journal 1/2012 - Revue des questions fonciéres 1/2012

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Journal Articles & Books
Junio, 2012
Etiopía
Namibia
Burkina Faso
Malí
Panamá
Brasil
Malasia
Jordania
Rumania
Rusia
Noruega
Reino Unido
Italia
Alemania
Países Bajos
Suiza
Samoa

The Land Tenure Journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access flagship journal of the Climate, Energy and Tenure Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The Land Tenure Journal, launched in early 2010, is a successor to the Land Reform, Land Settlement and Co-operatives, which was published between 1964 and 2009.

Non-Citizens and Land Tenure in Kenya

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Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
Junio, 2012
África
Kenya

The acquisition of land by foreigners in developing countries has emerged as a key mechanism for foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI is defined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as the category of international investment that reflects the objective of a resident entity in one economy to obtain a lasting interest in an enterprise resident in another economy.

Taking Stock, June 2012

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Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
Junio, 2012
Viet Nam
Asia oriental
Oceanía

The authorities' determined implementation of stabilization measures over the past year has helped to avert a macroeconomic crisis. If the deterioration of the macroeconomic environment in 2010-11 was rapid, the improvement in the situation in the past twelve months has been equally swift.

Deforestation, land conversion and illegal logging in Bangladesh: the case of the Sal (Shorea robusta) forests

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Journal Articles & Books
Junio, 2012
Bangladesh

Bangladesh, with a forest cover estimated at 17.08% of all land surface area, has experienced massive degradation of its natural resources and a conside­rable change in its land cover. While deforestation in Bangladesh is obviously a complex issue, one important aspect emerges from previous research findings in explaining deforestation: industrialization.