The ability to address land degradation and biodiversity loss while maintaining the production of plant and animal products is a key global challenge. Biodiversity decline as a result of vegetation clearance, cultivation, grazing, pesticide and herbicide application, and plantation establishment, amongst other factors, has been widely documented in agricultural ecosystems.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationOctober, 2013Global
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksOctober, 2013Africa, South America
O presente artigo visa analisar o conceito de “religião” e suas implicações concetuais para a observação das religiões africanas, partindo do caso dos yorùbá da África Ocidental e visitando o candomblé, religião brasileira de matriz africana fecundada com o comércio de escravos.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2013Central America
El presente trabajo busca hacer una lectura estructural de algunas de las dinámicas agrarias y rurales de las últimas décadas en Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador y Nicaragua. Se busca mostrar varias dimensiones que interactúan en el medio rural, como son la estructura agraria, el uso del suelo, el incremento de la superficie en fincas gracias a la ampliación de la frontera agrícola, y la evolución de la población tanto nacional como sobre todo en el ambiente rural.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchSeptember, 2013Japan, Norway
In this paper we present an analysis of power law statistics on land markets. There have been no other studies that have analyzed power law statistics on land markets up to now. We analyzed a database of the assessed value of land, which is officially monitored and made available to the public by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport Government of Japan. This is the largest database of Japan's land prices, and consists of approximately 30,000 points for each year of a 6-year period (1995-2000).
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchSeptember, 2013Norway, United States of America
This study aims to examine current land access and youth livelihood opportunities in Southern Ethiopia. Access to agricultural land is a constitutional right for rural residents of Ethiopia. We used survey data from the relatively land abundant districts of Oromia Region and from the land scarce districts of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ (SNNP) Region. We found that youth in the rural south have limited potential to obtain agricultural land that can be a basis for viable livelihood. The law prohibits the purchase and sale of land in Ethiopia.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchSeptember, 2013Norway, South America, Northern America, Asia
This is the rst paper that estimates the global land use change impact of growth of the bioenergy sector. Applying time-series analytical mechanisms to fuel, biofuel and agricultural commodity prices and production, we estimate the long-rung relationship between energy prices, bioenergy production and the global land use change. Our results suggest that rising energy prices and bioenergy production signicantly contribute to the global land use change both through the direct and indirect land use change impact.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsSeptember, 2013
LADM is a international standard for the land administration domain. It will stimulate the development of software applications and will accelerate the implementation of proper land administration systems that will support sustainable development.
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Library ResourceTraining Resources & ToolsOctober, 2013Global
This platform provides an introduction to the concepts surrounding community monitoring, based on the "Contracting Roadmap" developed by the World Bank Institute. It is appropriate for civil society organisations who are exploring whether they can monitor procurements, butit also applies to any entity interested in contract and project monitoring. It explains the different types of monitoring and different approaches, how to access data and general rules in what to do with it afterwards in the analysis.
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsOctober, 2013Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam, South-Eastern Asia
Since 2009, RECOFTC has been implementing a regional project on Grassroots Capacity Building for REDD+, through the support of Norad, with the aim of promoting the effective engagement of diverse grassroots stakeholders in the climate change and REDD+ dialogues in Asia-Pacific region.
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsSeptember, 2013South-Eastern Asia
This annual report highlights RECOFTC's key achievements for the 2011 and 2012 year.
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