Voluntary certification programs are one type of intervention used to incentivize the commodity agricultural sector in tropical forest landscapes to reduce deforestation and improve sustainability. These programs encourage supply-chain actors to produce and source products according to agreed…
La ocupación Amarildo de Souza es un caso particular de acceso a la tierra y territorio en Brasil, que comienza en la madrugada del 16 de diciembre de 2013 en Florianópolis. El caso empieza con 60 familias, muchas de las cuales ya habían participado de otra ocupación urbana para obtener una…
A large number of governance interventions are being developed in order to reduce deforestation and enhance the sustainability of commodity
supply chains across the tropics. The extent to which individual agricultural commodity supply chain interventions can achieve scale, and
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En la región del Delta de Paraná se ubica la cuenca forestal más importante del cultivo de salicáceas de Argentina (Borodowski et al., 2014), con 83.370 hectáreas de sauce y álamos y 250 de mimbre (DF-Minagri, 2012). Hasta hace una década atrás, según datos de la SAGPyA (1999), las unidades…
Palavras-chave em português: Expropriação, Indígenas Guarani, Propriedade privada capitalista da terra, Resistência
Resumo em português
A metrópole de São Paulo revela inúmeros conflitos com diferentes conteúdos permeados por distintas lógicas de ocupação da terra. Um desses…
In this publication, the issue of tenure security is addressed and assessed in several countries where government, civil society, the private sector and development cooperation initiatives have been implemented for decades. The selected case studies from fifteen countries in Africa, Asia and…
The E-Newsletter consists of three stories: international experience in seed quality control and certification shared in Georgia; farm registry pilot project in Racha region; world deforestation slows down as more forests are better managed.
Meeting symbol/code: FO:LACFC/2015/3
Session: Sess. 29
Global estimates of forest emission trends show that total emissions have decreased by over 25 percent between the period 2001–2010 and the period 2011–2015. FAO data show that the decrease is due to a decline in deforestation rates globally. They also reveal that emissions from forest…
Meeting Name: North American Forest Commission
Meeting symbol/code: FO:NAFC/2016/3.2
Session: Sess. 28
Meeting Name: North American Forest Commission
Meeting symbol/code: FO:NAFC/2016/2
Session: Sess. 28
The third fact sheet in the Save and Grow series presents the key points of the Quezungual Slash-and-Mulch Agroforestry System, or QSMAS in Honduras. The system builds up soil nutrient stocks, and produces maize yields double those of traditional shifting cultivation.It reduces the time needed…