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  1. Library Resource
    Websites
    January, 2002
    Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Lesotho, South Africa

    Series of country papers on HIV/AIDS and land in Lesotho, Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, with concluding paper on methodological and conceptual issues. The key questions addressed include: The impact on and changes in land tenure systems (including patterns of ownership, access, and rights) as a consequence of HIV/AIDS with a focus on vulnerable groups. The ways that HIV/AIDS affected households are coping in terms of land use, management and access, e.g. abandoning land due to fear of losing land, renting out due to inability to utilise land, distress sale of land, etc.

  2. Library Resource
    Multimedia
    December, 2001
    Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa

    As cities expand to cover farmland with roads and buildings, the conflict between traditional land rights, and modern systems of ownership and distribution become very clear. This report comes from Blantyre in Malawi, where city authorities now charge rent on land that was once freely owned.

  3. Library Resource
    Multimedia
    December, 2001
    Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa

    Dan Chirwa explaining to Patrick Mphaka how the water of Lake Malawi is a natural birthright for all Malawians.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Tanzania, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Malawi, Africa

    A short overview of the context for forestry in Zambia, followed by an analysis of the likely situation by 2020 in view of major trends in the country.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Egypt, Nigeria, United States of America, Singapore, Vietnam, Somalia, France, China, Eritrea, Botswana, Haiti, Guinea, Malawi, Niger, Ethiopia

    This publication is a set of practical guidelines and norms for field project engineers for the design and building of small hydraulic structures using earth and gabions. This publication would be useful in designing small earth dams with a gabion spillway, intake weirs for gravity irrigation schemes, groynes, river bed training works and for protection against hydraulic erosion.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Mauritius, Mauritania, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Guinea-Bissau, Eswatini, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Guinea, Ethiopia, Comoros, Malawi, Cape Verde, Liberia, Libya, Lesotho, Uganda, Rwanda, Somalia, Madagascar, Cameroon, Tanzania, Botswana, Eritrea, Senegal, Chad, Gabon, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Zambia, Gambia, Mali, Burundi, Sao Tome and Principe, Djibouti, Sierra Leone, Seychelles, Kenya, Morocco, Niger, South Africa, Togo, Tunisia, Central African Republic, Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Africa, Global

    This regional study presents an overview of the socio-economic importance and ecological impact of the use of non-wood forest products (NWFP) in Africa. The document consists of two main parts: i) presentation of background information on the programme activities and analysis of the available information on the regional and sub-regional level (both in English and in French); and ii) presentation of data on NWFP on the national level (so-called “country profiles”, available in either English or French).

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Egypt, Canada, Israel, Samoa, Germany, Namibia, Indonesia, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Djibouti, Guinea, Ethiopia, Malawi, Thailand, Cyprus, Japan, Vietnam, Tanzania, Poland, India, Greece

    The present “Supplement to the Report on the 1990 WCA” presents the census results collected from the reports issued by the countries that conducted censuses during the 1986-1995 decade and made them available to FAO after mid-1997.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Mozambique, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Mali, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Tanzania, South Africa, Ghana, Malawi, Mexico, Brazil, Africa, Americas

    In November 2000, the World Bank (WB) and the Brazilian Federation for Direct Planting into Crop Residue (FEBRAPDP) organized the third Study Tour on “Producer-Led Rural Organizations for Sustainable Land Management” (PRO-SLM), with particular emphasis on notillage systems (NT).1 The Study Tour followed a 10-day itinerary of over 1,000 km through Southern Brazil, covering Paraná and Santa Catarina States, two states which received WB support through land and micro-watershed management projects.</p> This Paper presents the salient features of NT development in Southern Brazil and discu

  9. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    January, 2002
    Kenya, Malawi, Lesotho, South Africa

    Series of country papers on HIV/AIDS and land in Lesotho, Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, with concluding paper on methodological and conceptual issues. The key questions addressed include: The impact on and changes in land tenure systems (including patterns of ownership, access, and rights) as a consequence of HIV/AIDS with a focus on vulnerable groups. The ways that HIV/AIDS affected households are coping in terms of land use, management and access, e.g. abandoning land due to fear of losing land, renting out due to inability to utilise land, distress sale of land, etc.

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