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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Argentina, Central America, South America

    This article argues that the logic of territory is particularly important for understanding the processes of capital accumulation and resistance in Latin America. The analysis focuses on Argentina, but draws on examples from throughout Latin America for a regional perspective and from the provinces of Jujuy, Cordoba and Santiago del Estero for subnational views. Section one describes the territorial restructuring of meaning, physical ‘places’ and politico-legal ‘spaces', as it plays out at multiple scales to facilitate the investment in and sale and export of natural resource commodities.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    United States of America, Rwanda, Gambia, Chile, Peru, Indonesia, Vanuatu, Jamaica, Italy, Costa Rica, Finland, Colombia, Kenya, Laos, Philippines, Malaysia, Cameroon, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Netherlands, Argentina, Bhutan, Brazil, Asia, Africa, Americas

    <i>Towards effective national forest funds</i> addresses the need for more information on the way NFFs work and how best to establish and manage them. It shares the lessons that have emerged from the establishment and management of NFFs with the aim of supporting countries in designing and operating NFFs effectively according to their specific needs and circumstances.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Burkina Faso, Honduras, Kenya, El Salvador, Guatemala, Zimbabwe, Canada, Congo, Costa Rica, Niger, Rwanda, Lesotho, Madagascar, Argentina, Brazil, Ghana

    La publication de ce numéro d’Unasylva coïncide avec deux événements marquants pour les forêts. Les 196 Parties à la Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques viennent de se réunir à la Conférence Paris climat 2015 en vue de négocier un accord qui soit en mesure de changer la donne en matière de changement climatique. Toujours à Paris, le Global Landscapes Forum 2015, Forum mondial sur les paysages, a été le théâtre de discussions de haut niveau portant sur la recherche et les politiques qui sous-tendent les questions d’utilisation des terres.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Egypt, Bangladesh, United States of America, Zambia, Turkey, Zimbabwe, China, Indonesia, Malawi, Pakistan, Morocco, Philippines, Mexico, Uganda, Madagascar, Uzbekistan, Myanmar, Argentina, India, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, Tajikistan, Brazil

    FAO’s best-selling 2011 publication, <i>Save and Grow</i>, proposed a new paradigm of agriculture, one that is both highly productive and environmentally sustainable. This new book looks at the application of “Save and Grow” practices and technologies to production of the world’s key food security crops – maize, rice and wheat.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Honduras, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, China, Jamaica, Bolivia, Cuba, Venezuela, Guyana, Costa Rica, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, South America, Caribbean

    Meeting symbol/code: FO:LACFC/2015/3
    Session: Sess. 29

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    United States of America, Peru, Indonesia, Australia, Bolivia, China, Malta, Russia, Italy, Finland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Japan, Uganda, Myanmar, Argentina, India, United Kingdom, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, Canada

    This paper introduces a Special Issue of Forest Ecology and Management that includes a collection of analytical results from the 2015 Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA 2015) covering 25 years of forest change (1990–2015). FRA 2015 builds on a series of global assessments that began in 1948 and covers change in forest area and type, volume, biomass and carbon stocking, measures of sustainable forest management, biodiversity and conservation, soil and water protective functions, wood production and a number of socio-economic variables.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Tanzania, Bangladesh, Uganda, China, Uruguay, Indonesia, Ecuador, Austria, Argentina, India, Senegal, Costa Rica, Georgia, Vietnam, Mongolia

    Las acciones para reducir las emisiones y eliminar GEI en el sector de la agricultura, la silvicultura y otros usos de la tierra (AFOLU) ofrecen valiosas oportunidades sobre las que fundamentar y aumentar las sinergias con actividades relacionadas con la intensificación sostenible, la mejora de la eficiencia, la adaptación al cambio climático, la seguridad alimentaria y el desarrollo rural (Módulo 1).

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    July, 2015
    Qatar, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Samoa, Chile, Guatemala, China, Namibia, Australia, Bolivia, Austria, Guyana, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, India, Paraguay

    Esta publicación presenta un conjunto de materiales e ideas para contribuir al desafío de avanzar en la implementación de las Directrices Voluntarias sobre la Gobernanza Responsable de la Tenencia de la Tierra, la Pesca y los Bosques en el contexto de la seguridad alimentaria nacional, en adelante (DVGT). El diseño original del trabajo pone un especial énfasis en la elaboración de una propuesta metodológica para la implementación de las Directrices, cuyo énfasis debía estar situado en lo operacional: una suerte de manual con una propuesta de cómo aplicar las Directrices.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Antigua and Barbuda, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, Suriname, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Barbados, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Ecuador, Argentina, Bahamas, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, South America, Caribbean

    Meeting symbol/code: FO:LACFC/2015/2
    Session: Sess. 29

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Dominican Republic, Chile, Guatemala, Peru, Jamaica, Cuba, Venezuela, Guyana, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Uruguay, Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, South America, Caribbean

    Meeting symbol/code: FO:LACFC/2015/REP
    Session: Sess. 29

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