Kissidougou in Guinea, West Africa, is characterised by so-called 'forest islands', relics - it was assumed -of original dense forest cover. It was also assumed that local cultivation practice was to blame for the destruction of the trees. However, as collaborative research led by the School of Oriental and African Studies, the Institute of Development Studies and Guinean researchers discovered, villagers had a different story to tell: that the forest islands had in fact been established over several generations as part of a process of deliberate forest management.
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Library ResourceEnero, 2002Liberia, Benin, Ghana, Sierra Leona, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, África subsahariana
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Library ResourceEnero, 2008Sierra Leona, África subsahariana
Sierra Leone has recently emerged from a long period of political instability and civil war, and is ranked among the world’s poorest countries. Thousands of displaced people are in the process of returning totheir villages to rebuild their mainly farming-based livelihoods, and many are growing food crops for the first time in a decade.
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Library ResourceEnero, 1985Sierra Leona, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, África subsahariana
Attempts at settling or sedentarizing nomadic herders in semi-arid and arid regions have been largely unsuccessful, partly on account of the difficulty of restricting the movements of domestic livestock in areas where low and irregular rainfall lead to scant and unreliable sources of water and grazing. But for the herders in sub-humid regions, where both water and vegetation resources are much more reliable and substantial, there appear to be different possibilities.
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Library ResourceEnero, 2013Sierra Leona
This paper is a desk-based study of land rights and conflict in Sierra Leone. It reviews post-2002 academic and grey literature. It addresses land ownership and rights within Sierra Leone, as well as exploring the concept of land ownership as a source or driver of conflict. It also reviews literature on the current land tenure system, and government stated policies.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2003Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Laos, Honduras, Kenya, Uganda, Malí, Zimbabwe, China, Kirguistán, Ghana, India, Sierra Leona, Viet Nam
This study uses a livelihoods perspective to facilitate understanding of the role played by seeds and PGRs in rural people’s livelihoods and considers how a livelihood perspective may strengthen understanding of issues of access. A sustainable livelihoods perspective offers a way of thinking about the linkages among vulnerability, poverty and environmental or natural resource management.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2010Angola, Qatar, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Malí, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Ghana, Sierra Leona, Etiopía, Níger, Rwanda, Liberia, Sudáfrica, Madagascar, Tanzania, Siria, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Sudán, Arabia Saudita, África
Access to arable productive land in African has been in decline due to the pressure of growing population trends and worsening land degradation as a result of climate change. Recent high profile land purchases covering thousand of hectares of prime agricultural land have raised concerns over equitable land access. Major expansions in regional land markets have increased investor interest in land acquisitions. Perceptions of land availability and competitive land prices have driven demand for prime agriculture land.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosMarzo, 2016Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Camerún, Sudáfrica, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Malí, Sierra Leona, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Filipinas, India, Nepal, Azerbaiyán, Dinamarca, Francia, Alemania, Nueva Zelandia, Fiji, Samoa
This guide explores the legal dimensions of responsible governance of tenure. It supports the application of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure for Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security at the national level. The guide addresses the legal value of the Guidelines covering the governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests by explaining the concept of legitimacy and reviewing the different stages of legislative processes, from legal assessment and law-making through implementation of legislation to settlement of disputes.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 1984Kenya, Francia, Nigeria, Filipinas, Micronesia, Australia, Ghana, Congo, Guinea, India, Sierra Leona, Etiopía, Níger, Brasil
Shifting cultivation, under its diverse forms of slash and burn system, is a traditional method of cultivating tropical upland soils, mostly for subsistence purposes. This traditional system of cultivation is in ecological balance with the environment and does not irreversibly degrade the soil resource, provided a sufficient length of fallow is allowed for soil restoration. However, increasing population pressures necessitate more intensive use of land. The consequence is extended cropping periods and shortened fallows.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 1969Argelia, Francia, Rwanda, Canadá, Alemania, Dinamarca, Marruecos, Reino Unido, Ghana, Sierra Leona, Malawi, Níger, Camerún, Kenya, Liberia, Uganda, Gabón, Botswana, Senegal, Chad, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire
Meeting Name: African Forestry Commission
Meeting symbol/code: FO-AFC/69/REP.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2001Argelia, Sudán, Egipto, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Australia, Esuatini, Reino Unido, Djibouti, Sierra Leona, República Centroafricana, Marruecos, Sudáfrica, Lesotho, Italia, Tanzania, Botswana, Países Bajos, Túnez, Argentina, Chad
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