A predominantly rural territory with few urban centers historically, the Gambia holds little in the way of well-known luxury resources commonly discussed in studies of western Africa. People of the region, in particular women, have exploited both riverine and oceanic food and material resources. The limited scholarship available on Gambian women reveals they have been essential to those endeavors contributing to economy, politics, society, and family institutions.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosAgosto, 2019Gambia
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesEnero, 2021Kenya, Tanzania, República Democrática del Congo, Sudáfrica, Côte d'Ivoire
Achieving tenure security, land and property rights in informal urban settlements remains one of the most persistent, intractable development challenges today. The Secure Tenure in African Cities: Micro Funds for Community Innovation initiative launched by Cities Alliance aimed to address this challenge.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesSeptiembre, 2015Mauritania
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WRM Bulletin 254 – Jan/Feb 2021
Documentos de política y resúmenesEnero, 2021Mozambique, Camerún, República Democrática del Congo, Gabón, Liberia, Nigeria, Brasil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Malasia, TailandiaThe articles in this Bulletin are written by the following organizations and individuals: National Coordinator for the Defense of the Mangrove Ecosystem (C-CONDEM), Ecuador; Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakya (Bentala Raya Heritage Foundation), Indonesia; Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology and members of the WRM international secretariat in close collaboration with several allies who are part of grassroots groups in different countries.
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Library ResourcePolíticas NacionalesEnero, 2008Liberia
Liberia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) is built on the foundation of the Government’s 150-Day Action Plan. The PRS is part of a longer-term continuum of the Government’s strategy for rapid, inclusive and sustainable growth and poverty reduction, including progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The PRS covers the three-year period from April 2008 to June 2011.
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Library ResourcePolíticas NacionalesJunio, 2006Nigeria
The overall objective of the present national cross-sectoral Forest Policy is to achieve sustainable forest management that would ensure sustainable increases in the economic, social and environmental benefits from forests and trees for the present and future generation including the poor and the vulnerable groups.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosFebrero, 2006Ghana
Increasingly, economists are examining how the dynamics within households affect the outcomes of household decisions. This paper uses data from the 1991/92 and the 1998/99 Ghana Living Standards Surveys to examine how the share of assets owned by women in Ghanaian households affects household expenditure patterns. In this analysis, assets include business assets, savings, and farmland. The results indicate that women’s share of assets do have an impact on household budget shares for a number of expenditure categories in each time period.
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Library ResourcePolíticas NacionalesGhana, África, África occidental
The National Gender Policy is a multi-sectoral instrument applicable at the national level.
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Library ResourcePolíticas NacionalesNigeria, África, África occidental
The Agricultural Policy for Nigeria is a sectoral national policy in force for the period of 1985-2000. The main objective of the document is to further develop and improve the performance of the country’s agricultural sector.The Policy envisages a series of measures to enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems. Among others, it provides for a water supply for food crop production to be increased through the construction of irrigation structures, dams and boreholes in strategic food crop production zones.
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Library ResourcePolíticas NacionalesGhana, África, África occidental
The National Irrigation Policy is a sectoral national policy adopted by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to address the problems, constraints and opportunities, which cut across the whole irrigation sub-sector; and specifically for informal, formal and commercial irrigation. The Policy’s goal is to achieve sustainable growth and enhanced performance of irrigation contributing fully to the goals of the Ghanaian agriculture sector.
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