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Manuals & Guidelines
October, 2017
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The purpose of this document is to outline the technical design of WebGIS, and provide a step-by-step guidance to build and deploy WebGIS tool.
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Journal Articles & BooksDecember, 2012GlobalSustainable management of limited land and water resources is urgently needed to meet the increasing demand for food and to protect the environment. Land suitability analysis is a prerequisite in assessing and proposing sustainable land use alternatives for an area. Soil data are usually available at different levels of detail and stored in various forms, usually soil maps and/or soil observations. Soil data interpretation methods control the reliability of land suitability evaluation results.
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Reports & ResearchApril, 2012Iran, Southern AsiaThis study on gender and livelihood aims to find new ways of improving the incomes of rural households, based on the role of women in agricultural production and the division of labor in socioeconomic activities between men and women. It targets eight villages in two regions: Merek (Kermanshah Province) and Honam (Lorestan Province), and was carried out through conducting a social survey (quantitative research) and a participatory rural appraisal - PRA- (qualitative research). The results from qualitative and quantitative research were integrated.
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Institutional & promotional materialsOctober, 2017Ethiopia, Kenya, Eastern AfricaPresentation of the project (East Africa and Sahel) for the Annual meeting (2017) organized in Niger (ICRISAT)
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Institutional & promotional materialsOctober, 2017Kenya, Eastern AfricaThe document present the contribution of local knowledge in context-Specific Land Restoration Technologies.
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Conference Papers & ReportsNovember, 2017Tunisia, Northern AfricaMany efforts have been invested in the Dry Areas to combat land degradation and desertification. Different strategies and approaches for conserving soil and water and restoring degraded lands have been developed by local, national and international agents to synergise efforts towards land degradation neutrality achievement. Tunisia is a dryland country facing a high risk of land degradation over more than 50% of its territory. It is a country with high investment programs for soil and water conservation (SWC), and large level adoption of SLM practices.
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Journal Articles & BooksSeptember, 2013China, Eastern AsiaImplementation of land management policies influences land use and hence
causes environmental change. Taking the Ordos rangelands in China as a case
study, this paper explores the potential of remote sensing to assess in dryland
areas the impacts of policies on the environment. Thirteen Landsat images of the
period 1978 2010 were acquired and those corresponding to the starting dates of
implementation of different policies were selected for land-cover change analysis;
others were used to check the detected change and track the normalized -
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Training Resources & ToolsMay, 2017Tunisia, Northern AfricaThis presentation presented the concept and design of the GeOC tool. This presentation comes under the introductory session of the training "Sustainable Land Management Options by Context: Approach and Geospatial tool to support Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality”, held in Zaghouan on 16-17 March 2017.
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Institutional & promotional materialsApril, 2019Uzbekistan, Central AsiaPresentation on "Climate-resilient food legumes for higher and sustainable productivity of rain-fed crop lands in Central Asia" submitted during the Central Asia Climate Change Conference, 3-4 April 2019. Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2016Malawi, Eastern Africa
According to the Malawi Land Act of 1965, three categories of land tenure exist in the country. These are private, public and customary land. Private land is all land held under a freehold title, a leasehold title or land registered under the Registered Land Act of 1967. Public land is all land occupied by the government while customary land is all land held, occupied or used under customary law (Peters & Kambewa, 2007; Kishindo, 1994:57).
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