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Luz de America: comunidad y biodiversidad Amazonica

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2003
Indonesia, Bolivia, Mozambique
Forest Tenure
forest law
community forestry
assessment
forest management plans
Problems with governance of forests are closely linked to incompatible interests between different stakeholders. Having a clearer understanding of the relative importance of forest landscape functions among stakeholders can bring much clarity about why governance problems persist. The voice of the weakest actors is often insufficiently heard in decision-making processes that affect how stakeholders can use forests.
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Assessment of the value of woodland landscape function to local communities in Gorongosa and Muanza districts, Sofala province, Mozambique

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2003
Mozambique
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
land valuation
forest law
community forestry
forest management plans
This book is a report of a short-term research project. The project aimed to test an approach for estimating local values for landscape units and relate these to formal biodiversity conservation values in Gorongosa National Park (GNP), Sofala Province, Mozambique. First section describes the research site selection and gives short descriptions of the chosen sites: Muaredzi and Nhanchururu. Second section is about the community landscape valuations, includes also the methods and results concerning conceptual models, spatial data sets, and participatory community assessments.
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Regulamento da Lei de Terras de Moçambique

Legislation
February, 2003
Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
land law
Regulamento da Lei de Terras (Decreto 1/2003)
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Nova Aliança Contra a Pobreza: Grandes Projectos – Terra – Produção Alimentar – Pequenos Produtores – Estado

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2003
Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
advocacy
agricultural and rural legislation
land governance
Tem havido várias iniciativas de elaboração de programas de desenvolvimento agrário, a nível internacional e nacional. São exemplos, o New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), a Revolução Verde Africana (RVA), o Plano Estratégico de Desenvolvimento do Sector Agrário (PEDSA) o Plano Nacional de Investimento do Sector Agrário (PNISA) e, recentemente, no âmbito do G8, a Nova Aliança contra a Pobreza.
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Como induzir o desenvolvimento em África?

O Caso de Moçambique

Conference Papers & Reports
January, 2003
Mozambique
development
land administration
land governance
A pergunta faz parte do quotidiano dos políticos africanos, especialistas das agências internacionais, trabalhadores de organizações não-governamentais, funcionários de ministérios da cooperação espalhados pelos países do Norte e académicos do mundo inteiro.
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Fiscalização de Florestas e Fauna Bravia em Moçambique

Reports & Research
March, 2003
Mozambique
forest conservation
forest land
forest law
forest management plans
Neste relatório apresenta- se o levantamento sobre a fiscal ização florestal e faunística no passado e presente, sugerem - se medidas para melhorar a fiscalização e formas de participação dos interve nientes do sector nesta actividade.Há uma grande diferença entre o que a lei florestal estabelece como prática a seguir na exploração, uso e conservação das flo res tas com o que se passa no terreno.
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Second international workshop on participatory forestry in Africa

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2003
United States of America, Gambia, Mali, Ethiopia, Congo, Malawi, Niger, Cameroon, Mozambique, Morocco, Japan, Uganda, Italy, Tanzania, Senegal, Chad, Africa
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
The First International Workshop on Community Forestry in Africa was held in the Gambia in February 1999. It began the process of bringing together all of the African experiences in community-based natural resource management. Until the Gambia workshop, those looking for documentation of existing initiatives would have looked towards Asia for information about best practices and experience in participatory forest management.
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Contribution du droit à la lutte contre la délinquance et la corruption dans le secteur forestier: approches conceptuelles

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2003
Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Congo, Sierra Leone, Malawi
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
forest conservation
agricultural and rural legislation
La définitio n de mécanismes app ropriés à la lu tte contre les activités illé gales et la corruption dans le sec t eur forestier dev rait constituer un des fondements des réformes législativ es entreprises par une majorité de pays africains. Ce nouveau cadre juridique est une des conditions préalables à la gestion durable des ressources forestières . Les principales caractéristiques des nouvelles lois sont une reconnaiss ance des valeurs sociales, écono miques et environnementales et leur intégration dans les object ifs de la gestion durable des forêts.
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The role of local institutions and their interaction in disaster risk mitigation: a literature review

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2003
Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kenya, Mauritania, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Indonesia, Jamaica, China, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Mozambique, Morocco, Philippines, Nicaragua, Cambodia, India, Chad, Mexico, Brazil, Cuba
natural resources management
natural disasters
rural development
sustainable development
The present paper is a non-academic and thus, hopefully, unpretentious, attempt at reviewing the literature on the the role of local institutions and their interaction in disaster risk mitigation (DRM). What will be found on the following pages is a non-exhaustive compendium of strengths and limitations of local institutions involved in DRM and some suggestions for tapping the former and tackling the latter.
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Report of the FAO/OXFAM GB Wokshop on Women's Land Rights in Southern and Eastern Africa

Reports & Research
December, 2003
Angola, Switzerland, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Eswatini, Ireland, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda, Somalia, Tanzania, Botswana, Netherlands, Africa
property rights
land governance
land tenure
private ownership
land ownership
women
The report summarises the papers, presentations and discussions of a workshop on failures and achievements at securing women’s land rights. In particular, it addresses the following issues: Land rights and legal reforms,legal aid and land administration practice, women's land rights in an HIV/AIDS context,women's land rights from a food security and livelihoods context. Organised by the FAO and Oxfam, the workshop seeks to establish global and multi-sectoral alliances and multiple strategies as a means of breaking out of the present impasse in this matter.