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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2006
    Latin America and the Caribbean, Guatemala

    La reforma agraria y las invasiones a fincas privadas o del gobierno son temas tratados desde hace mucho tiempo en Guatemala; se han discutido desde la fallida reforma agraria impulsada por el ex presidente Juan Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán hasta la actualidad. Este artículo inicia con una sucinta referencia a la evolución histórica del tema de la tenencia de la tierra en Guatemala y analiza el papel desempeñado por los gobiernos de turno.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2006
    Global

    This book is a cross-cultural endeavour to promote global strategies for enhancing security of tenure in the Muslim world. It addresses the gap in both the human rights and Islamic literature on land and property issues.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2006
    Central African Republic

     En zones de savanes cotonnières d'Afrique centrale, les densités de populations sont variables et en augmentation. Les modes d'exploitation agricole varient de l'agriculture itinérante répandue en Centrafrique à l'agriculture continue dominante au Cameroun et au Tchad. L'exploitation agricole familiale est une unité familiale de production, de consommation, d'accumulation et de résidence.

  4. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    November, 2006
    Mali

    The present study aims to clarify the various issues regarding land security of poor and other marginalized groups in Malian rural areas. It looks into questions relating to how poor and vulnerable groups obtain access to land and natural resources, and what factors cause their exclusion. It analyzes existing methods for formalizing land rights and land transactions and their impacts on the poor.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2006
    Ethiopia

    About 88% of the population is concentrated in the highlands, which constitute less than half of the national territory; here the population density is 141 persons km-2. Agriculture is the main source of livelihood and national income in the country. Over 85% of the population directly depends on it and about half of the GDP is generated from the sector. However, agriculture is small-scale and subsistence oriented, and it is in a very low state of development.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2006
    Global

    This Toolkit has been prepared to support the design and implementation of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) programs. The specific purpose of the Toolkit is: to inform the user of the approaches that can be followed to analyze and value the economic costs of land degradation and the benefits of sustainable land management. ‘Land’ is interpreted broadly in the Toolkit, also including wetlands and coastal zones. The Toolkit contains five Tools that together present a detailed description of the various relevant ecological and economic assessment methodologies.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2006
    Cambodia

    Uncontrolled development was threatening to destroy the forest environment
    and the traditional way of life of the hill people of Ratanakiri. Researchers
    worked with the villagers to produce unique maps and resource use plans
    that convinced the government of the people’s traditional resource use and
    management rights, and eventually set an example for inclusion in new land
    tenure legislation for the nation.

  8. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    November, 2006
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    La ciudad es una matriz física y simbólica de la modernidad de nuestras sociedades y es en ella donde más se evidencian las tensiones y contradicciones del desarrollo urbano no-sostenible en nuestra región (concentración de la riqueza y de los vínculos con la globalización económica, severas inequidades y exclusiones sociales, contaminación, consumo energético irracional, pobreza urbana, entre muchos otros);.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2006
    Jordan, Western Asia

    This report describes the use of improved methodologies developed for identifying water-harvesting sites. It also provides general guidelines for determining site potential in relation to various parameters. The approach integrates multi-disciplinary knowledge, use of GIS, and verification in the field to develop and test a methodology to identify watersheds with specific characteristics – in this case, watersheds most suited to project activities within the Jordanian Badia.

  10. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    November, 2006
    Morocco, Tunisia, Northern Africa

    A tragedy of the commons is unfolding in the rangelands of West Asia and North Africa (WANA), where land is either public or collectively owned. Overgrazing under this land tenure has led to severe land degradation and soil erosion. Poverty and environmental degradation are intertwined in this low-rainfall region, where more than 38 million people live in rural areas and depend mainly on agriculture. Traditional rangeland grazing provides fodder in winter and spring, while in summer and autumn the animals browse cereal stubble and other crop residues.

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