Documentos de política y resúmenes
Abril 2016
Zambia
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Informes e investigaciones
Abril 2016
Kenya
Zambia
Lesotho
Zimbabwe
Eritrea
Ghana
Malawi
Etiopía
África
This brief describes the broad array of impacts arising from a cash transfer programme that was piloted in the Tigray region of Ethiopia from 2011 to 2014. About 80 percent of Tigray’s population of 4.3 million live in rural areas and depend on rain-fed subsistence agriculture for their livelihoods.
Informes e investigaciones
Abril 2016
Kenya
Ghana
Malawi
Zambia
Lesotho
Etiopía
Zimbabwe
África
The Social Cash Transfer Pilot Programme (SCTPP) in Ethiopia is the Tigray Regional government’s pilot of a social cash transfer currently managed at the national level.
Documentos de política y resúmenes
Abril 2016
Zambia
The use of modern seed varieties and other improved technologies is essential for farmers to significantly increase their crop harvest and improve their livelihoods. All over Sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture productivity growth has remained very low over many decades irrespective of gender of the farmer.
Artículos de revistas y libros
Marzo 2016
Zambia
Zimbabwe
África
África austral
Variability in woody plant species, vegetation assemblages and anthropogenic activities derails the efforts to have common approaches for estimating biomass and carbon stocks in Africa. In order to suggest management options, it is important to understand the vegetation dynamics and the major drivers governing the observed conditions.
Artículos de revistas y libros
Marzo 2016
Kenya
Zambia
Uganda
Tanzania
Australia
Sudán del Sur
Etiopía
Níger
África
This climate-smart agriculture scoping study for Ethiopia was produced by the FAO. The study is aimed at identifying and documenting existing climate-smart agriculture practices in Ethiopia that enable stakeholders to understand the opportunities and constraints to adopting particular climate-smart agriculture technologies or practices.
Documentos de política y resúmenes
Marzo 2016
Angola
Burkina Faso
Rwanda
Zambia
Malí
Zimbabwe
Ghana
Congo
Senegal
Malawi
Níger
Etiopía
Mozambique
Uganda
Somalia
Madagascar
Sudán del Sur
Chad
Kenya
África
FAO has focused and integrated its work in the Region through three Regional Initiatives. The Initiatives respond to the priorities of member-states and will achieve demonstrable impact in a time bound manner, whilst responding to FAO’s Strategic Objectives. In Africa, the Regional Initiatives were developed based on an in-depth cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary review of regional issues.
Informes e investigaciones
Marzo 2016
Rwanda
Nigeria
Kenya
Zambia
Uganda
Burundi
Tanzania
Australia
Canadá
Djibouti
Etiopía
Níger
Eritrea
África
This publication was commissioned under the auspices of the project “FAO technical support to the COMESA-EAC-SADC program on climate change adaptation and mitigation in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSRO/RAF/307/COM)”.
Artículos de revistas y libros
Febrero 2016
Zambia
The purpose of the research is to: 1) investigate the interpretation of the sections in the Lands Act of 1995 that provide for the statutory recognition on one hand, and conversion of customary land, on the other; and 2) discuss the effects of the said sections on customary landholders.
Artículos de revistas y libros
Febrero 2016
Luxemburgo
Polonia
Suiza
Japón
Zambia
Perú
Italia
Accurate and consistent information on forest area and forest area change is important given the reporting requirements for countries to access results based payments for REDD+ . Forest area change estimates usually provide data on the extent of human activity resulting in emissions (e.g. from deforestation) or removals (e.g. from afforestation), also called activity data (AD).