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Displaying 5056 - 5060 of 5074Enfoque Territorial para el Empoderamiento de las Mujeres Rurales en América Latina
Los documentos presentados se refieren a un estudio desarrollado en el marco de una iniciativa interagencial — Organización de las Naciones Unidas para las Mujeres (ONU-Mujeres), la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricoltura (FAO) — liderada por ONU-Mujeres acerca del Enfoque Territorial para el Empoderamiento de las Mujeres Rurales en América Latina y el Caribe, la misma que fue coordinada por el Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural (RIMISP).
Land Tenure and Food Production
Land tenure and food production
Factsheet produced by the FAO Food for the Cities multidisciplinary Initiative.
Comments on FAO Voluntary Guidelines
The VG exercise has been presented as a continuum from the ICARRD Conference and commitments by Member States; therefore there is scope for a comparative analysis of the two texts.
Land tenure and rural development
The present volume is part of a series of Land Tenure Studies produced by FAO’s Land Tenure Service of the Rural Development Division. Land tenure plays a vital role in achieving sustainable rural development. Increasing technological change and economic integration are requiring policy makers, planners, development experts and rural producers to re-examine the institutional arrangements used to administer who has rights to what resources for which purposes and for how long.
Decentralization and rural property taxation
Increasingly land tenure institutions are required to support the decentralization of services to local governments. One expectation of decentralization is improved delivery of services by the level of government that is closest to the beneficiaries of those services. While the scope of services being allocated to local governments has expanded, many rural local governments lack the revenues needed for them to fulfil their new responsibilities. This guide provides advice to countries that wish to increase revenues by introducing rural property taxes.