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   Rising global interest in farmland: can it yield sustainable and equitable benefits?

   Enero, 2011

   Conflictos por Tierra

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Tierra y Seguridad Alimentaria

   Seguridad alimentaría

   Cambio climático

   Utilización de la tierra

   Desplazamiento

   Tierras

   Pobreza

   Tierras agrícolas

   Agricultura

   Desarrollo de capacidad

   This paper analyses issues that affect the role of agriculture as a source of economic development, rural livelihoods and environmental services. Using experiences of land expansion in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa, it assesses the extent to which recent demand for land differs from earlier processes of area expansion and identifies the current challenges, in terms of land governance, institutional capacity and communities’ awareness of their rights.

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   The inter-linkages between rapid growth in livestock production, climate change, and the impacts on water resources, land use, and deforestation

   Informes e investigaciones

   Enero, 2010

   Pastizales, Tierras secas y Pastoreo

   Utilización de la tierra

   Tierras de pastos

   Livestock systems globally are changing rapidly in response to human population growth, urbanization, and growing incomes. This paper discusses the linkages between burgeoning demand for livestock products, growth in livestock production, and the impacts this may have on natural resources, and how these may both affect and be affected by climate change in the coming decades. Water and land scarcity will increasingly have the potential to constrain food production growth, with adverse impacts on food security and human well-being.

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   Survey Report on Information Disclosure of Land Management Regulations

   Informes e investigaciones

   Noviembre, 2010

   Viet Nam, Asia oriental, Asia, Oceanía, Asia sudoriental

   Land, and its proper management, is a central issue in developing countries. Efficient use and management of land are key contributors to maximizing the potential benefits of sustainable socioeconomic development. Accurate and accessible land information is a necessary requirement for sustainable rural and urban development, which will contribute to the elimination of poverty. A well-functioning land market is crucial for achieving these goals and a prerequisite for a land market to function properly includes easy, rapid and cost-effective access to land information.

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   The Inter-Linkages between Rapid Growth in Livestock Production, Climate Change, and the Impacts on Water Resources, Land Use, and Deforestation

   Diciembre, 2010

   Livestock systems globally are changing rapidly in response to a variety of drivers. Human population growth, rapid urbanization, and growing incomes will lead to substantial increases in the demand for livestock products in the coming decades. Meeting this increased demand may put substantial pressure on a wide range of natural resources such as land and water. Together with climate change and increasing climate variability, these drivers of change add up to a formidable set of development challenges for developed as well as developing countries.

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   Impacts of Transmission and Distribution Projects on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

   Review of Methodologies and a Proposed Approach in the Context of World Bank Lending Operations

   Informes e investigaciones

   Documentos de política y resúmenes

   Noviembre, 2010

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Tenencia de Bosques

   Cambio climático

   ciencias forestales

   Utilización de la tierra

   Desarrollo sostenible

   The Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change (SFDCC) approved in 2008 guides and supports the operational response of the World Bank Group (WBG) to new development challenges posed by climate change. One activity pursued by the SFDCC is to further develop and test methods to analyze climate risks and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the project level. The SFDCC emphasizes the need to improve GHG accounting activities at the project level to understand the implications of the World Bank's interventions.

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   Russian Economic Report, No. 22, June 2010

   A Bumpy Recovery

   Informes e investigaciones

   Recursos y herramientas de capacitación

   Junio, 2010

   Rusia, Europa, Asia central

   Tenencia Urbana

   Tenencia de Bosques

   Agricultura

   ciencias forestales

   Zonas urbanas

   Urbanización

   Amid heightened global uncertainties, Russia is experiencing a bumpy recovery. Domestic demand is rising, but unemployment remains high, and credit and investment remain limited. The budget has benefited from higher oil prices, but fiscal consolidation remains important in the medium term. Crumbling infrastructure, especially in transport, could hamper the economy's competitiveness and longer-term growth prospects. The debt crisis in Western Europe sharpens the downside risks to global recovery and oil prices.

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   High-Speed Rail

   The Fast Track to Economic Development?

   Informes e investigaciones

   Documentos de política y resúmenes

   Julio, 2010

   China, Asia oriental, Oceanía

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Cambio climático

   A high-speed rail service can deliver competitive advantage over airlines for journeys of up to about 3 hours or 750 km, particularly between city pairs where airports are located far from city centres. One suitable type of corridor is that which connects two large cities 250-500 km apart. But another promising situation is a longer corridor that has very large urban centres located, say, every 150-300 km apart. On these longer corridors, typical of some being built in China, high-speed rail has the ability to serve multiple city-pairs, both direct and overlapping.

8. Library Resource

   

   Institutional Development and Good Governance in the Highway Sector

   Learning from Gujarat

   Informes e investigaciones

   Documentos de política y resúmenes

   Diciembre, 2010

   India, Asia meridional

   Desarrollo de capacidad

   The World Bank financed the Gujarat State Highway Project (GSHP) during 2001-07. The project development objective was to enhance the capacity of the Government of Gujarat (GOG) for effective and efficient planning and management of road infrastructure, while concurrently maximizing existing road infrastructure asset productivity through priority investments and increased maintenance funding. The project not only achieved its objective and targets successfully, but also was implemented with a significant cost reduction (about 23 percent).

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   Sustainable Groundwater Irrigation

   Approaches to Reconciling Demand with Resources

   Informes e investigaciones

   Documentos de política y resúmenes

   Diciembre, 2010

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Cambio climático

   Degradación de tierras

   The aim of this paper is to provide a strategic overview of a decade of experience in supporting public administrations in their efforts to confront excessive groundwater resource exploitation for agricultural irrigation. Special emphasis is put on a series of on-the-ground pilot projects mainly in South and East Asia and Latin America, which are profiled through a series of boxes introduced in the paper.

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    Poverty and Inequality Changes in Turkey (2003-2006)

    Informes e investigaciones

    Documentos de política y resúmenes

    Marzo, 2010

    Turquía, Asia meridional

    Propiedad de la tierra

    Zonas rurales

    Población rural

    Zonas urbanas

    Poverty in Turkey has declined significantly between 2003 and 2006, as a result of rapid poverty reduction in urban areas. In the same time period, the reduction in poverty in rural areas has been slow or non-existent. As a result, the relative risk of poverty has increased in this time period for those employed in agricultural sector, living in rural areas and in large households.