Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer…
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer…
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer…
This occasional paper is the result of research carried out from 2006 to 2008 on the effects of new tenure rights for forest-based communities in Latin America on access to forest resources and benefits. Focused on seven different regions in four countries, the paper examines changes in…
This study adopts an institutional approach to analyze the way in which informal rules, in their interaction with formal rules, shape the use of forest resources by diverse types of smallholders and communities (i.e., indigenous people, agro-extractive and traditional communities) in Latin…
This Act, consisting of 8 articles, creates the Centre for Geo-technology, Cartography and Territorial Planning (CGPTERR), as the Decentralized Administrative Unit of the Secretariat of State for Planning and Development (SEPLAN). The purpose of the CGPTERR is to coordinate and carry out a…
Dados históricos, sociais e políticos, a expansão do cultivo de soja no Brasil em detrimento das terras de pequenos agricultores e áreas de deslocamento de populações pobres e violentas das cidades.
This Synthesis Paper is based on an Expert Meeting held in Rome 26 to 28 February 2008 as a preparation for the FAO High Level Conference (HLC) on World Food Security and the Challengesof Climate Change and Bioenergy in June 2008. The paper contains appraisal of the implications of the Fourth…
La presente Nota de Políticas sobre el acceso a la tierra en Nicaragua ha servido de insumo a la preparación de la nueva Estrategia de Asistencia al País (CAS, en sus siglas en ingles) que el Banco Mundial presentó a su Junta en 2007. El nuevo CAS tiene por objetivo orientar la labor del Banco…
Document de travail sur les régimes fonciers 2. Ce document propose une analyse des impacts du changement climatique sur les régimes et les politiques fonciers. Il évalue les effets des changements climatique anthropogéniques en cours sur les régimes fonciers – s’agissant notamment de ceux qui…
Documento de trabajo sobre tenencia de la tierra 2. En este documento se analizan las implicaciones del cambio climático en la tenencia de la tierra y en la política de la tierra. Se determinan las implicaciones del cambio climático antropogénico en curso que resultan de emisiones de gases de…