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  1. Library Resource
    Consent is Everybody's Business: Why banks need to act on free, prior and informed consent
    Informes e investigaciones
    Agosto, 2019
    Kenya, Sudáfrica, Guatemala, Honduras, Estados Unidos de América, Australia, Papua Nueva Guinea, Global

    A community’s choice to give, or withhold, their free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) to a project or activity planned to take place on their land is a recognized right of Indigenous peoples under international law. It is also a best practice principle that applies to all communities affected by projects or activities on the land, water and forests that they rely on.

  2. Library Resource
    The role of indigenous communities in reducing climate change through sustainable land use practices

    A Webinar Report

    Informes e investigaciones
    Septiembre, 2019
    África, Kenya, América Latina y el Caribe, Estados Unidos de América, Asia, Global

    The climate crisis demands urgent action, yet we live in a politically polarized and paralyzed world. As governments and other actors struggle over climate change, our environment is irreversibly changing. A United Nations report on the Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services revealed that three-quarters of the earth’s land-based environment has been significantly altered by human actions.

  3. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Diciembre, 2013
    Indonesia, Bolivia, Túnez, Estados Unidos de América, España, Etiopía

    Since the 1930s there has been worldwide concern about the effects and impacts of land degradation. After the problems experienced in the Dust Bowl in the USA, much attention was paid to soil and water conservation in both developed and developing countries. Initially Governments stimulated the establishment of physical control measures, such as terraces, check dams and reforestation. This was achieved through top-down regulations, and Forestry Departments were often in charge of the implementation.

  4. Library Resource
    Documentos de conferencias e informes
    Diciembre, 2009
    Suiza, Estados Unidos de América, Alemania, Dinamarca, Italia, Ghana, Noruega, Europa, Asia, África, América central, América Septentrional, América del Sur, Oceanía

    The paper reveals that ever since the 1950s, after the first land reform of distributing landownership (or possession under public ownership) to small farmers, the irrational and polyopolisticland use by able-bodied part-time and absent small farmers earning higher off-farm income butunwilling to lease the under-producing land beyond their family consumption need to full-timefarmers, has been a global obstacle with both public and private land ownership, traditional andmodern agriculture, fragmented small and consolidatorily enlarged land, low and high incomeeconomies, food under-self-suffi

  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.

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