Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer…
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer…
The second volume of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives for 2004 comprises eight articles that examine a range of areas central to land tenure activity. They provide a stimulating and, in some cases, critical set of perspectives on how best to tackle some of these issues.
The Expert Consultation on Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management (ECCI-2004) was organized by the Forest Management Bureau of the Philippines, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Tropical Timber Organization and convened in Cebu…
It is increasingly recognised that migrants constitute an invaluable resource for development and poverty reduction in their home countries. For many developing countries, remittances from overseas migrants exceed development aid and foreign direct investment volumes. Moreover, remittances from…
In recent years, local people and rural communities have assumed increasing prominence in strategies for natural resource management.This paper briefly reviews some of the central legal issues that are associated with this shift. In doing so, its goals are limited. It does not ad dress…
Documento presentado en la 50ª. Reunión del Comité Permanente de la C.I.T.E.S. Ginebra. Preparado por: Unidad de Vida Silvestre y Ecosistemas Frágiles.Ministerio del Ambiente. República del Ecuador.
Este trabajo analiza la forma en que se han transmitido los derechos agrarios en tres ejidos del centro de Veracruz desde una perspectiva de género. Se examina la manera en que se articulan factores como los patrones de herencia, el trabajo femenino remunerado, los papeles de género y los tipos…
Amounts of organic carbon in the mineral soil (SOC) and fine-root (
