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Refazendo Nós numa Terra Arrasada:

A Prática Ecológica em Terra Sonâmbula, de Mia Couto.

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Africa, Mozambique, Southern Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
indigenous peoples' lands
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
O foco deste trabalho é a representação dos espaços presentes no romance Terra Sonâmbula (COUTO, 1999). Ele traz à tona a guerra civil em Moçambique (1976-1992), desencadeada por duas facções distintas que lutam por um mesmo fim: a conquista do poder político no país, após a independência colonial. Os espaços a serem abordados sofrem transformações, em meio a essa guerra. Nesse contexto, articularemos uma discussão com base na teoria ecofeminista, por sua pertinência e contribuição ao debate sobre relações de humanos e de não humanos no meio ambiente.
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Reducing the vulnerability of urban slum dwellers in the Southern African region to the impact of climate change and disasters

January, 2011
Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, Eswatini, South Africa, Malawi, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land governance
Current estimates of climate change state that the world’s average temperature is due to increase by at least 2oC to 2.4oC over the next 50?100 years. Furthermore it is expected that by the end of the century a range of additional impacts will be felt: sea levels will rise by an estimated 60cm, resulting in flooding and the salinisation of fresh water aquifers, and snow and ice cover will decrease. Simultaneously, precipitation patterns will change so that some areas will receive large increases whilst other areas will become hotter and drier.
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Urban land markets in Southern African cities

January, 2011
Mozambique, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Investments
land governance
land
land markets
The cities in southern Africa reflect the rapid urbanisation characteristic of sub-Saharan Africa in general. Angola, Botswana and South Africa have the highest levels of urbanisation with about 60% of their population living in cities in 2010 and this percentage is expected to rise to about 80% by 2050.
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Decentralised Land Governance: Case studies and local voices from Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique

Reports & Research
June, 2011
Mozambique, Madagascar, Botswana, Africa
land governance
land
land rights
advocacy
The 3 case studies are located against the backdrop of changing land governance, tenure policy and legislation in Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique. They examine how power and authority over decision-making and resources or functions is distributed between central, regional and local levels of governance. They explore the roles and perspectives of other actors such as non-governmental bodies, traditional governance institutions, user associations or village committees, the private sector and other organisations of civil society.
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Working together for impact

Reports & Research
October, 2011
Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Laos, Nepal, Peru, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, South-Eastern Asia, Eastern Africa, Southern Asia, Southern Africa, South America, Western Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
water management
rangelands
Despite challenges in many river

basins, overall the planet has

enough water to meet the full range

of peoples’ and ecosystems’ needs

for the foreseeable future, but

equity will only be achieved through

judicious and creative management.
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Status, distribution and determinants of poverty in the COMESA region: A review of existing knowledge

Reports & Research
August, 2011
Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
rangelands
research
Poverty and vulnerability are among the major problems in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA). To design appropriate poverty reduction initiatives for the region, it is not only important to understand the distribution of poverty but also the determinants. Various reports have documented information on the status, distribution and determinants of poverty in each of the countries.
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Review of the CPWF small grants initiative

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Laos, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, Africa, Asia, South-Eastern Asia
farming systems
This working paper reviews the experiences of the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) with 14 “small

grants for impact” that were contracted in early 2006 and operated for periods of 12 to 18 months. For a total

investment of under US$1 million – less than the equivalent of a typical 3-5 year CPWF research for development

project in Phase 1, the small grant projects made significant contributions to identifying water and food technology

for specific end users (thus showing the potential of CPWF research in general); to better understanding of
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Multiple use water services in Tanzania scoping study

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Tanzania, Southern Africa
water management
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Limpopo Basin Development Challenge

January, 2012
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, Southern Africa
farming systems
water management
Limpopo Basin

The Limpopo is a relatively dry basin and most water in the more productive areas is already claimed. Rainfall is highly variable and in many parts of the basin there is little run-off with which to produce crops and livestock. The basin is a water-scarce environment in which recurring drought and floods cause devastating impacts on the livelihoods of small-scale, subsistence farmers. However, the more pressing development challenge in these farming systems is the unproductive use of water in the more normal rainfall seasons which are much more prevalent.
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L4: Water Governance in the Limpopo Basin

January, 2011
Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
water management
rangelands
The project focuses on access and control of water/land, and the associated management and governance mechanisms. L4 seeks to provide the people and governments of the Limpopo Basin with:

1. A package of ways to better understand and organise access rights to water for multiple uses from farm level to the basin and regional level,

2. A package of ways to organise technologies for different physical and socio-economic contexts so as to improve the management and control of water for multiple uses from one or more water sources,