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  1. Library Resource
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Diciembre, 2013
    Estados Unidos de América

    By Peter Giampaoli, Climate Change Specialist, Land Tenure and Property Rights Division, USAID. Clear, secure rights to manage and use forests are an important aspect of sustaining traditions and economic opportunities. Although this web site often discusses property rights in the context of developing countries, insecure title and undocumented land rights can undermine smallholder ownership in the United States as well.

  2. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Mayo, 2014
    Estados Unidos de América, China, México, Oceanía, América Latina y el Caribe, Asia oriental

    The trend toward ever greater urbanization continues unabated across the globe. According to the United Nations, by 2025 closes to 5 billion people will live in urban areas. Many cities, especially in the developing world, are set to explode in size. Over the next decade and a half, Lagos is expected to increase its population 50 percent, to nearly 16 million. Naturally, there is an active debate on whether restricting the growth of megacities is desirable and whether doing so can make residents of those cities and their countries better off.

  3. Library Resource
    Documentos de conferencias e informes
    Abril, 1998
    Estados Unidos de América

    James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank Group, discussed the issues that link the United States to other countries: health, migration, trade, peace and stability, energy, food, and crime and narcotics. The responsibilities of foundations do not end with our cities and communities. The job the Bank does can only be done on the basis of partnership with the governments, with the other multilateral institutions, with the private sector, but most particularly with civil society.

  4. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Septiembre, 2008
    Canadá, Estados Unidos de América

    There is much in common between the agricultural sectors of the United States and Canada. This chapter begins with a brief background on the two sectors, then reviews their histories of farm policy developments before reporting new estimates of rates of assistance to their farmers and their consequences for taxpayers and consumers. This is followed by an explanation of the politics behind the evolution and gyrations in farm policies in the two countries, and some speculation on the prospect for reform.

  5. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Diciembre, 2001
    China, India, Indonesia, Japón, Filipinas, Portugal, Estados Unidos de América, África oriental

    More irrigated land is devoted to rice than to any other crop. A method to save water in irrigated rice cultivation is the intermittent drying of the rice fields, known as alternate wet/dry irrigation (AWDI). This report reviews previous studies in AWDI, with a focus on mosquito vector control, water saving, and rice yields. Examples are provided from a number of countries.

  6. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Diciembre, 1997
    Burkina Faso, Sri Lanka, Pakistán, India, Sudán, Egipto, Estados Unidos de América, Níger, Filipinas, China, Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Colombia, África occidental, Asia, África

    This volume reviews the findings and results of research of the International Irrigation Management Institute during its first decade. The book also reviews several of the institute?s major institutional strengthening activities.

  7. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Diciembre, 2014
    Estados Unidos de América, México, España, Marruecos, China, América Septentrional, América central, América del Sur, Europa, África, África septentrional, Asia, Asia meridional

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