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   Growing better cities

   Urban Agriculture for sustainable development

   Artículos de revistas y libros

   Enero, 2006

   Global

   Tenencia Urbana

   Agricultura

   Medio ambiente

   Seguridad alimentaría

   Ordenación de recursos naturales

   Investigación

   Planificación urbana

   The United Nations predicts that over the next 25 years nearly all population growth will be in the cities of the developing world. At current rates, 60% of the world’s total population will live in cities by 2030. As the cities grow, so does the number of urban poor. Unemployment, hunger, and malnutrition are commonplace. In the big city, most of any cash income the poor might bring home goes to feeding themselves and staying alive; any food that does not have to be bought is a bonus.

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   PROMISED LAND: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform

   Artículos de revistas y libros

   Enero, 2006

   Global

   Tierra y Seguridad Alimentaria

   Seguridad alimentaría

   Agrarian reform is back at the center of the national and rural development debate, a debate of vital importance to the future of the Global South and genuine economic democracy. The World Bank as well as a number of national governments and local land owning elites have weighed in with a series of controversial policy changes. In response, peasants landless, and indigenous peoples’ organizations around the world have intensified their struggle to redistribute land from the underutilized holdings of a wealthy few to the productive hands of the many.

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   Housing and property restitution in the context of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons

   Informes e investigaciones

   Junio, 2005

   Global

   Derechos sobre la tierra en contextos de post-conflicto

   Desplazamiento

   Desposesión

   Derechos de vivienda

   Acceso a la tierra

   Conflicto agrario

   Gobernanza de la tierra

   At its fifty-sixth session the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human
   Rights, in its resolution 2004/2, welcomed the progress report of the Special Rapporteur and
   requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to circulate
   the draft principles on housing and property restitution for refugees and displaced persons
   contained therein widely among non-governmental organizations, Governments, specialized
   agencies and other interested parties for comment, and requested the Special Rapporteur to take
   

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   Halving hunger: it can be done

   Informes e investigaciones

   Diciembre, 2005

   Global

   Tierra y Seguridad Alimentaria

   Gestión de tierras agricolas

   Seguridad alimentaría

   Pobreza

   Halving Hunger examines current world progress towards eliminating hunger, and calls for the implementation of seven recommendations in the areas of: political action, national policy reforms, increased agricultural productivity for food insecure farmers, improved nutrition for the chronically hungry, productive safety nets for the acutely hungry, improved rural incomes and markets, and restoration and conservation of natural resources essential for food security.