Today, the Coalition for Urban Transitions releases a new report ‘Seizing the Urban Opportunity’, which provides insights from six emerging economies on how national governments can recover from COVID-19, tackle the climate crisis and secure shared prosperity through cities. Launching as a call to action for national governments ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, it builds on the Coalition’s flagship 2019 report: Climate Emergency, Urban Opportunity.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosMarzo, 2021Brasil, China, Indonesia, India, México, Sudáfrica, África austral
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2018Egipto, Sudán, Kenya, Tanzania, África austral, Sudáfrica, Nigeria, México, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Estados Unidos de América, Japón, Filipinas, Irán, Nepal
Agriculture influences and shapes the world’s ecosystems, but not always in a positive way. More than 2.5 billion people are globally involved as stewards of land and water ecosystems that constitute the natural resource base for feeding the current and future world population. Yet, conventional agronomic interventions based on ‘hard’ agricultural engineering compromise various eco-services that are required for sustainable agricultural development.
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Volume 8 Issue 10
Publicación revisada por paresOctubre, 2019África austral, Sudáfrica, IndiaThe Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) call for governments to clearly define the term ‘public purpose’ to allow for judicial review of the goals of expropriations of property. However, recent research indicates that national-level legal frameworks that govern expropriation decision-making not only vary greatly from country to country but also often fail to comply with the VGGT standards on expropriation. This creates the potential for unpredictable and, in some cases, arbitrary applications of expropriation law in practice.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2017India, Nepal, Marruecos, Sudáfrica
With current rates of land degradation reaching ten to twelve million ha per year, there is an urgent need to scale up and out successful, profitable and resource-efficient sustainable land management practices to maintain the health and resilience of the land that humans depend on. As much as 500 million out of two billion ha of degraded land, mainly in developing countries, have restoration potential, offering an immediate target for restoration and rehabilitation initiatives.1 In the past, piecemeal approaches to achieving sustainable land management have had limited impact.
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Library ResourceDocumentos de conferencias e informesDiciembre, 2014Sudáfrica, India, China, Brasil, Australia
A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is an evolving concept, essentially consisting of policies, institutional arrangements, Geographical Information Systems (GISs), data bases, networks, Web services and portals to facilitate and coordinate the availability, exchange and sharing of geospatial data and services between stakeholders from different levels.
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Facts and Analysis 2016
Documentos de conferencias e informesSeptiembre, 2016Sudáfrica, India, China, BrasilThis compendium and analysis of Cities in the BRICS countries were developed through a partnership between the South African Cities Network (SACN) and the South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning (SA&CP) at the University of the Witwatersrand. Since South Africa joined BRICS in 2010, multiple connections have been forged between South Africa and its alliance partners. However, although there is a growing volume of engagements, there is still inadequate knowledge and understanding across the BRICS.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosFebrero, 2019Kenya, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Benin, Nepal, Sudáfrica, Nicaragua, Viet Nam, Mozambique, Tailandia, Madagascar, China, Myanmar, Indonesia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Ghana, Senegal, Camerún, Noruega, Camboya
Milones de personas de todo el mundo dependen de recursos naturales, como la tierra, la pesca y los bosques, que se utilizan de manera colectiva como propiedades<p></p>comunales. Estas son fundamentales para la cultura, el bienestar y la identidad cultural. Como fuente de alimentos e ingresos, constituyen una importante red de seguridad, en particular para las personas más vulnerables y marginadas.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesJulio, 2018Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Honduras, Filipinas, Sudáfrica, Italia, Irán, Argentina, India, Níger
In developed and developing countries all over the world, farmers and indigenous and local communities have traditional knowledge, expertise, skills and practices related to food security and to food and agricultural production and diversity. Since its creation in 1945, FAO has recognized the significant contributions these make to food and agriculture, and the relevance of on-farm/in situ and ex situ conservation of genetic resources for food and agriculture.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2016Kenya, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Benin, Nepal, Sudáfrica, Nicaragua, Viet Nam, Mozambique, Tailandia, Madagascar, China, Myanmar, Indonesia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Ghana, Senegal, Camerún, Noruega, Camboya
Millones de personas de todo el mundo dependen de recursos naturales, como la tierra, la pesca y los bosques, que se utilizan de manera colectiva como propiedades comunales. Estas son fundamentales para la cultura, el bienestar y la identidad cultural. Como fuente de alimentos e ingresos, constituyen una importante red de seguridad, en particular para las personas más vulnerables y marginadas.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosJulio, 2018Kenya, Liberia, Bangladesh, Estados Unidos de América, Filipinas, Sudáfrica, Malasia, Malí, China, Reino Unido, Ghana, India, Malawi, Pakistán, Papua Nueva Guinea, Países Bajos
A survey of business models that provide opportunities for smallholders.
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