Mobile phone use is increasing in Sub-Saharan Africa, spurring a growing focus on mobile phones as tools to increase agricultural yields and incomes on smallholder farms. However, the research to date on this topic is mixed, with studies finding both positive and neutral associations between phones and yields. In this paper we examine perceptions about the impacts of mobile phones on agricultural productivity, and the relationships between mobile phone use and agricultural yield.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesAgosto, 2020Tanzania
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Library ResourceManual y guíasSeptiembre, 2019Global
Climate- and human-induced land degradation endangers the future survival of our planet. A new focus on achieving Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) seeks to spark and grow transformative efforts to avoid, reduce and reverse land degradation through gender- and socially-equitable means.
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Towards a fair and robust land management and governance system connecting people for sustainable livelihoods in Rwanda
Documentos de política y resúmenesAgosto, 2021RwandaThis one-pager provides details on the LAND-at-scale project in Rwanda. This project is implemented by Kadaster International and IDLO, and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via the Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency.
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Pathways for Sustainable Forest Management and Socio-equitable Economic Development
Informes e investigacionesJulio, 2019BhutánThe Bhutan Forest Note articulates opportunities for supporting Bhutan's sustainable development aspirations, including its constitutional commitment to maintain at least 60 percent of the country's land area under forest cover and to better respond or prepare for vulnerabilities such as climate change and natural disasters. The note presents a forward-looking business case for Bhutan to support an increase in forest utilization without jeopardizing the integrity of forest and non-forest ecosystems.
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Library ResourcePublicación revisada por paresAgosto, 2017Bhután
Property rights and management regimes for high-elevation rangelands in Bhutan have evolved over centuries in response to environmental, cultural, and political imperatives. The 2007 Land Act of Bhutan aims to redress historical inequities in property rights by redistributing grazing leases to local livestock owners in a process known as rangeland nationalization.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2019Bhután
Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation (BTFEC) in collaboration with National Soil Service Centre (NSSC), and Gross National Happiness Commission (GNHC) has undertaken the Evaluation and Learning (E&L) activity with financial support from Climate Investment Funds (CIF) for the project ‘Evaluation of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) and innovative financing to enhance climate resilience and food security in Bhutan’.
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Project de recherche-action « promotion d’une gouvernance foncière inclusive par l’amélioration des droits fonciers des femmes au Sénégal »
Informes e investigacionesMarzo, 2021SenegalLe phénomène d’ATGE gagne l’ensemble du Sénégal, privant les communautés de leurs droits fonciers, des principaux moyens d’existance. L’IPAR, en partenariat avec le CNCR et aGter, a bénéficié d’un appui financier du CRDI pour exécuter ce projet de recherche- action participative et collaborative.
Ce projet évalue des initiatives mises en œuvre et analyse du contexte global de trois communes, situées dans trois zones agro-écologiques : bassin arachidier, Niayes et vallée du fleuve Sénégal, afin de :
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesJulio, 2020Marruecos, Túnez, Mauritania
The Maghreb's oases systems provide a major contribution to the region's food security, economy and natural resources. Despite this potential, oasis ecosystems are threatened by a range of complex factors related to the expansion of agricultural land and increasing scarcity of water resources. The project, implemented by FAO in Tunisia, Morocco and Mauritania from May 2016 to December 2019, brought together key stakeholders to address the lack of available information on the status of oases and to advocate on factual bases shared by all stakeholders and verifiable in the field.
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Library ResourceRecursos y herramientas de capacitaciónAbril, 2021Global
The need to step up monitoring of land governance issues drove the establishment of the Global Land Indicators Initiative (GLII) in 2012 by Millennium Challenge Corporation, the World Bank, and UN-Habitat. The platform is hosted and facilitated by Land and Global Land Tool Network Unit in UN-Habitat.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesAbril, 2021África, Global
The Global Land Indicators Initiative (GLII) platform was established in 2012 through the joint effort of United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the World Bank and Millennium Challenge Corporation with the aim of making global-scale monitoring of land governance a reality by 2021.
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