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Kenya, Burkina Faso, Morocco, South Africa, Mali, China, Mauritania, India, Senegal, Sudan, Niger, Oceania, Western Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Northern Africa, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia
With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia. Highlighting the roles of women and men in dryland areas for food security, land conservation/desertification, and the conservation of biodiversity, it makes available key findings on a number of projects and programs in the regions.
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France, Philippines, South Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Chile, Australia, United Kingdom, Spain, Senegal, Republic of Korea, Mexico
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United States of America, China, Australia, Malawi, Niger, Kenya, South Africa, Uzbekistan, Italy, Tunisia, Argentina, India, Senegal, Georgia, Mexico, Brazil
This report contains the proceedings of the first stakeholders meeting held by the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project, which aims to develop and validate quantitative reproducible assessment methods to make them widely available and to demonstrate and build capacity for their application in teh dryland areas of the world.
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Burkina Faso, Honduras, Peru, Guinea-Bissau, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Guinea, Cameroon, Indonesia, Mozambique, Laos, Philippines, South Africa, Italy, Tanzania, Ecuador, India, Paraguay
The damage caused by illegal activities and corrupt practices in the world’s forests is a problem of enormous proportions. In many parts of the world, forest exploitation is dominated by rampant illegal harvesting, large-scale violation of trade regulations both domestically and internationally, fraudulent practices abetted or condoned by government officials and other destructive activities in violation of applicable laws. This paper is concerned with one facet of this complex problem–how important is legislation in the fight against destructive and corrupt forestry practices?
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Fiji, Bangladesh, Dominican Republic, Mali, Guatemala, Peru, Burkina Faso, Nepal, Philippines, South Africa, Nicaragua, Uganda, Italy, Tanzania, Tunisia, India, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, Kenya
This study focuses on the gender dimension of agriculture-related legislation, examining the legal status of women in three key areas. The result is an analysis identifying the main legal and some non-legal factors that affect the existence and exercise of women’s agriculture-related rights.
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Algeria, France, Belgium, South Africa, Chile, Denmark, Italy, Canada, Argentina, India, Czech Republic, China, Brazil, New Zealand
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