The objective of the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project was to develop tools and methods to assess and quantify the nature, extent, severity and impacts of land degradation on dryland ecosystems, watersheds and river basins, carbon storage and biological diversity at a range of spatial and temporal scales. This builds the national, regional and international capacity to
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosEnero, 1970Argentina, China, Cuba, Senegal, Sudáfrica, Túnez
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Library ResourceJulio, 2014República Centroafricana, China, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leona
By Frank Pichel, Land Tenure and Property Rights Specialist, USAID.
I was pleased to attend the June 2014 intersessional meeting of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) in Shanghai, China and want to share several noteworthy achievements for USAID’s ongoing efforts to strengthen land tenure and property rights and prevent conflict. -
Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosEnero, 1994Asia meridional, África, Bangladesh, China, Gambia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Filipinas, Rwanda, Zambia
Why should there be a book about the commercialization of subsistence agriculture, economic development, and nutrition? There are two compelling resasons. First, concerns and suspicions about adverse effects on the poor of commercialization of subsistence agriculture persist and influence policy of developing countries and of donor agencies.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosEnero, 1994Asia meridional, África, Bangladesh, China, Gambia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Filipinas, Rwanda, Zambia
The distributional benefits of commercialization of agriculture, access to commercialization opportunities, and sharing of commercialization risks are functions of institutional arrangements. Obviously, the indirect food security and nutritional effects are, thereby, partly a function of such institutional arrangements. This chapter explores the relevance to food security of one form of contractual relationship in agriculture: formal contracts between producers and buyers (generally processors or exporters), a production and marketing system known as contract farming.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosEnero, 1995Asia meridional, África, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, India, Níger, Zimbabwe
"Rapid expansion of employment in low-income countries is one of the biggest challenges of development. The growth in labor supply in developing countries will remain large for a long time to come. Incomes of the poor in rural areas will depend more and more on productive off-farm work, and in the rapidly expanding urban areas, food security will depend largely on jobs and wage rates"--P. xiii.
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Innovative practices from the field and building on experience
Documentos de conferencias e informesMayo, 2021Kenya, Malawi, Somalia, Tanzania, Sudáfrica, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Malí, Mauritania, Níger, Senegal, Sierra Leona, Guatemala, Colombia, MongoliaAs part of the efforts to find sustainable solutions to complex land tenure issues, multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs) create an inclusive forum where actors can discuss problems and propose solutions to improve governance of tenure and provide better access to natural resources. This publication highlights how MSPs at regional, national and local level demonstrate forward thinking, including innovative practices and approaches to respond to the above mentioned social challenges, for the benefit of all.
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Pratiques innovantes issues du terrain et enseignements tirés de l’expérience
Documentos de conferencias e informesMayo, 2021Kenya, Malawi, Somalia, Tanzania, Sudáfrica, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Malí, Mauritania, Níger, Senegal, Sierra Leona, Guatemala, Colombia, MongoliaDans le cadre de la recherche de réponses durables aux questions foncières complexes, les plateformes multi-acteurs offrent un lieu de débat ouvert qui permet aux acteurs d’aborder les problèmes et de proposer des solutions pour améliorer la gouvernance foncière et l’accès aux ressources naturelles.
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The Tenure-Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy
Artículos de revistas y librosNoviembre, 2021Etiopía, Mozambique, Rwanda, Lesotho, Ghana, México, China, AlemaniaThis book delivers new conceptual and empirical studies surrounding the design and evaluation of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure and land-based gender concerns. It explores alternative approaches for land management and land tenure through international experiences. Part 1 covers Concepts, debates and perspectives on the governance and gender aspects of land. Part 2 focuses on Tenure-gender dimensions in land management, land administration and land policy.
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Library ResourceResoluciones de NN.UU.Noviembre, 2014Mozambique, Angola, Guinea Ecuatorial, Santo Tomé y Príncipe, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Brasil, Macao, Timor-Leste, Portugal
As Diretrizes Voluntárias sobre a Governança Responsável da Terra, dos Recursos Pesqueiros e Florestais no contexto da Segurança Alimentar Nacionall visam promover a segurança do direito de posse, garantir o acesso equitativo à terra, pescas e florestas como um meio para erradicar a fome e a pobreza, apoiar o desenvolvimento sustentável e melhorar o meio ambiente. As orientações foram oficialmente aprovadas pelo Comité de Segurança Alimentar Mundial, em 11 de maio de 2012.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesSeptiembre, 2014Mozambique, Angola, Guinea Ecuatorial, Santo Tomé y Príncipe, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Brasil, Macao, Timor-Leste, Portugal
Resumo
Este projecto de investigação-acção pretende analisar em que medida os actuais quadros legais e
institucionais actuais promovem ou dificultam uma efectiva governança fundiária centrada nas
pessoas e nas suas comunidades, o que equivale a analisar, também, a sua relação / integração no
contexto de outros eventuais mecanismos regulatórios e de concertação politica e social vinculada à
agricultura, meio ambiente ou, mais genericamente, à segurança alimentar e nutricional.
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