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¿ Los enfoques basados en los modos de vida sostenibles tienen una repercusión positiva en la población rural pobre?

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
Bangladesh, Honduras, Kenya, Zambia, Gambia, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Bolivia, Canada, Pakistan, Eritrea, Mozambique, Laos, Yemen, Nepal, Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Myanmar, India, Mongolia
natural resources management
land governance
land tenure
sustainable development
En el presente documento se examinan diversos casos de proyectos en que se aplicaron enfoques o principios basados en los modos de vida sostenibles y que, como consecuencia de ello, surtieron un efecto concreto en la reducción de la pobreza. Puesto que no se trata de un estudio comparativo entre éste y otros tipos de enfoques, no se han tomado en consideración casos de planteamientos más “tradicionales”.
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Will Buying Tropical Forest Carbon Benefit The Poor? Evidence from Costa Rica

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2004
Costa Rica
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
deforestation
climate change
land use
poverty
development
We review claims about the potential for carbon markets that link both payments for carbon services and poverty levels to ongoing rates of tropical deforestation. We then examine these effects empirically for Costa Rica during the 20th century using an econometric approach that addresses the irreversibilities in deforestation. We find significant effects of the relative returns to forest on deforestation rates. Thus, carbon payments would induce conservation and also carbon sequestration, and if land users were poor could conserve forest while addressing rural poverty.
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Why is child malnutrition lower in urban than rural areas?

Reports & Research
January, 2004
Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia
gender equity in access to land
urban population
rural population
women
"While ample evidence documents that urban children generally have better nutritional status than their rural counterparts, recent research suggests that urban malnutrition is on the rise. The environment, choices, and opportunities of urbanites differ greatly from those of rural dwellers' from employment conditions to social and family networks to access to health care and other services.
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What does it take? The role of incentives in forest plantation development in Asia and the Pacific. Executive Summary

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
Fiji, Switzerland, United States of America, Chile, China, Indonesia, Australia, Colombia, Thailand, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Ecuador, India, Paraguay, Brazil, Asia, Americas, Oceania
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
Over the past two decades, political developments as well as macro-economic and extra-sectoral policies have affected the forests of Asia and the Pacific to an unprecedented extent, resulting in deforestation and forest degradation. Responding to the diminishing capacity of the region's natural forests to produce timber, many countries have turned to forest plantations. Governments and their respective forest agencies are asking what it takes to encourage non-government entities to grow trees.
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What does it take? The role of incentives in forest plantation development in Asia and the Pacific

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
Fiji, Switzerland, United States of America, Chile, China, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Thailand, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Ecuador, India, Paraguay, Brazil, Asia, Americas, Oceania
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
Over the past two decades, political developments as well as macro-economic and extra-sectoral policies have affected the forests of Asia and the Pacific to an unprecedented extent, resulting in deforestation and forest degradation. Responding to the diminishing capacity of the region's natural forests to produce timber, many countries have turned to forest plantations. Governments and their respective forest agencies are asking what it takes to encourage non-government entities to grow trees.
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Vale la pena recuperar pasturas degradadas?: una evaluación desde la perspectiva de los productores y extensionistas pecuarios en Honduras

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
Honduras, Central America, South America
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Use of deep-rooted tropical pastures to build-up an arable layer throught improvement soil properties of an oxisol in the Eastern Plains (Llanos Orientales) of Colombia

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
Colombia, South America
land use
land improvement
It is widely believed that tropical soils (mainly Oxisols) have excellent physical characteristics such as high infiltration rates, high permeability of water, good and stable soil structure and that consequently, they can support mechanized agriculture. However in the Eastern Plains (Llanos Orientales) of Colombia, when Oxisols are subjected to tillage using disc harrow, soil physical conditions deteriorate rapidly.
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Urban poverty and habitat precariousness in the Caribbean

Proyecto Pobreza Urbana: Estrategia Orientada a la Acción para los Gobiernos y las Instituciones Municipales en América Latina y el Caribe ROA/28

Institutional & promotional materials
April, 2004
Caribbean
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Urban Tenure
land tenure
urbanization
This report focuses on urban poverty and habitat precariousness in the Caribbean countries with an emphasis on current and former British territories.
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Um estudo sobre Concessão de Direito Real de Uso em Recife e Porto Alegre: seguridade da posse da terra revisitada

Manuals & Guidelines
June, 2004
Brazil
land policies
land law
Artigo apresentado no 3º Congresso Brasileiro de Direito Urbanístico - Balanço das experiências de implementação do Estatuto da Cidade. RECIFE 27 a 29 de junho de 2004. Resumo O principal aspecto investigado neste trabalho é a extensão do uso da Concessão de Direito Real de Uso nos municípios de Recife e Porto Alegre, e indicar o uso efetivo de tal instrumento por parte dos beneficiários (indivíduos moradores de assentamentos regularizados) como instrumento para seguridade da posse.
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Ukraine's Agriculture Policy Review

Reports & Research
January, 2004
Ukraine, Canada
Recently, the OECD prepared a detailed review of Ukraine's agricultural policies and potential that included Producer Support Estimates (PSE) calculations. Canada provided a peer-review of this paper. It provides a preview of the caliber and range of information that can be expected from the proposed consortium reviews.The Ukraine review included discussions of how Ukrainian agricultural policies have evolved and the nature of agricultural support. It also highlighted macroeconomic conditions in the agroprocessing sector and rural infrastructure.