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  1. Library Resource
    January, 2012
    Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Northern Africa, Eastern Asia, Oceania, Western Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean

    The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have published this annual report on joint projects financed during 2011 on ecosystems and biodiversity preservation, green development strategies, and sustainable use of water and ocean resources, among other topics. The GEF financed and supported 323 UNDP projects in 2011.

  2. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, Africa, Asia, South America, Americas

    The year 2011 highlighted ongoing challenges to global food security, from food price volatility, extreme weather shocks, and famine to unrest and conflicts. On the policy front, major devel­opments at the global and national levels both offered grounds for encouragement and pointed to areas where further action is needed.

  3. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, Africa, Asia, South America, Americas

    The year 2011 highlighted ongoing challenges to global food security, from food price volatility, extreme weather shocks, and famine to unrest and conflicts. On the policy front, major devel­opments at the global and national levels both offered grounds for encouragement and pointed to areas where further action is needed.

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Brazil, China, India

    Brazil, China and India have seen
    falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying
    degrees and for different reasons. History left China with
    favorable initial conditions for rapid poverty reduction
    through market-led economic growth; at the outset of the
    reform process there were ample distortions to remove and
    relatively low inequality in access to the opportunities so
    created, though inequality has risen markedly since. By

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    June, 2012
    Colombia

    This article aims to show how the Law 1448 of 2011, which explains reparation and restitution of victims, and the National Development Plan (NDP) 2011-2014 generate land concentration in Colombia -- This is due to how the NDP objectives disintegrate the Law 1448 objectives; this phenomenon could be explained using an agency model and the subsequent moral risk issue formed between the State and the victims -- Regarding these results, a game-theory model was built, and this effectively concludes that the Law 1448 and the NDP generate land concentration in Colombia

  6. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    July, 2012
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    Many countries in Latin America have passed legislation that supports value capture policies as a way to recoup some or all the unearned increase in private land values resulting from public regulations or investments. Thus far, however, only a few jurisdictions in certain countries have applied this potentially powerful financing tool systematically and successfully. In 2011 and 2012 the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy surveyed public officials and academics in the region to discover why value capture has not been used more often. Read more.


  7. Library Resource

    Estudo exploratório da promoção dos agrocombustíveis mediante a Cooperação Sul-Sul para o Desenvolvimento

    Reports & Research
    January, 2012
    Brazil

    Nesta pesquisa, é descrito o processo de expansão global do setor agrocombustível e as críticas fundamentais sobre seus impactos: ambientais, na soberania alimentar, na soberania sobre a terra.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2012
    Brazil

    Portugués Uma das questões mais sensíveis   justa distribuição dos encargos e benefícios decorrentes do plano urbanístico está diretamente relacionada   decisiva participação do Estado na formação do valor solo urbano, destacando-se os investimentos públicos em infraestruturas e equipamentos, além da regulação das possibilidades de aproveitamento urbanístico dos imóveis.

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    India, China, Mexico, Spain, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Asia, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Northern America

    Besides India, there are a few other countries like Mexico, Spain, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China which also make intensive use of groundwater. This highlight reviews groundwater institutions and policies in these countries, with a special focus on the interlinkages between energy and groundwater. It finds that while there are useful lessons from international experience, none of the other countries offer unmetered electricity to farmers as India does. It is this lack of energy accounting and resistance to metering that is at the heart of the invidious energy-irrigation nexus in India.

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    This study estimates the vulnerability
    of Latin American agriculture to climate change using a
    Ricardian analysis of both land values and net revenues.
    Examining a sample of over 2,500 farms in seven countries,
    the results indicate both land value and net revenue are
    sensitive to climate. Both small farms and large farms have
    a hill-shaped relationship with temperature. Estimating
    separate regressions for dryland and irrigated farms reveals

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