Search results

Showing items 1 through 9 of 13.

Library Resource

Drought impact mitigation and prevention in the Limpopo River Basin

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2004
South Africa, Mozambique, Italy, Zimbabwe, Botswana
Land, Climate Change & Environment
water management
desertification
Southern Africa is particularly susceptible to climate variability and drought and is increasingly being threatened by desertification processes, degradation of land and water resources and loss of biodiversity. Although rainfed farming is a high-risk enterprise, it is also a way of life and people are committed to making the best of the scarce resources at their disposal. However, droughts tend to reduce production to below the already marginal levels, thus threatening subsistence farming.
Library Resource

Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Burkina Faso, Mali, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Mauritania, El Salvador, Afghanistan, France, China, Guatemala, Congo, Republic of Korea, Niger, Honduras, Mozambique, Morocco, Libya, Nicaragua, Italy, Senegal, Chad, Brazil
Forest Tenure
land
climate change
land use
natural resources management
forestry
farmland
land management
forest land
The purpose of the sourcebook is to further elaborate the concept of CSA and demonstrate its potential, as well as limitations. It aims to help decision makers at a number of levels (including political administrators and natural resource managers) to understand the different options that are available for planning, policies and investments and the practices that are suitable for making different agricultural sectors, landscapes and food systems more climate-smart.
Library Resource

Improving access to natural resources for the rural poor - The experience of FAO and of other key organizations from a sustainable livelihoods perspective

Reports & Research
December, 2002
Burkina Faso, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Mali, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Guinea, Pakistan, Thailand, Nepal, Laos, Philippines, Uganda, Benin, Cambodia, Sudan, Mongolia, Brazil, Netherlands
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land
capacity development
sustainable land management
natural resources management
land governance
land tenure
natural disasters
land management
land access
land use
This report identifies FAO’s activities concerning access to natural resources (ANR), and identifies other organizations that use explicitly or implicitly a sustainable livelihoods approach in relation to ANR. The report constitutes Output 2.1 of the work plan of the FAO LSP Sub-programme 3.1 ("Building Stakeholder capacity to improve access to natural resources for the rural poor").
Library Resource

Land resource potential and constraints at regional and country levels

Reports & Research
December, 2000
Angola, Estonia, Bangladesh, Luxembourg, Ireland, Namibia, Netherlands, Latvia, United Kingdom, Congo, Belarus, Niger, Central African Republic, New Zealand, Mozambique, Zambia, Finland, Brunei Darussalam, Botswana, Cambodia, Senegal, Chad, Kuwait
Land, Climate Change & Environment
sustainable land management
environment
land use
land
land management
Library Resource

Depleting natural wealth – perpetuating poverty

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2006
Nepal, Laos, Mozambique, Zambia, Kyrgyzstan, Guatemala, China, Cambodia, India, Ethiopia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Asia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
customary tenure
natural resources management
land governance
land tenure
forestry
community forestry
land access
Indigenous Peoples
forest land
land degradation
land tenure systems
indigenous people's tenure
This paper represents part of an area of work in support of enhancing access to land and forest resources in support of rural livelihoods in Mongolia. . This synthesis report draws on field studies undertaken recently in five rural areas of Mongolia, covering all ecological zones from montane and northern taiga forest to arid forest in the Gobi. Our findings document and explain, with case studies and documentation from participatory analysis, the downward cycle of resource depletion and descend into poverty that is in action.
Library Resource

World Agriculture: Towards 2015/2030. Summary Report

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2002
Angola, Egypt, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Belgium, Mali, Burundi, Germany, China, Indonesia, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Benin, Ethiopia, Niger, Eritrea, Mozambique, Turkey, Haiti, Italy, India, Brazil
forestry
agricultural land management
natural resources management
environment
fisheries
poverty
rural development
agriculture
This report is a shorter version of World agriculture: towards 2015/2030, FAO's latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world's food supplies, nutrition and agriculture. It summarizes the projections, distills the messages and presents them for the generalist. The projections cover supply and demand for the major agricultural commodities and sectors, including fisheries and forestry. This analysis forms the basis for a more detailed examination of other factors, such as nutrition and undernourishment, and the implications for international trade.
Library Resource

The role of local institutions and their interaction in disaster risk mitigation: a literature review

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2003
Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kenya, Mauritania, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Indonesia, Jamaica, China, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Mozambique, Morocco, Philippines, Nicaragua, Cambodia, India, Chad, Mexico, Brazil, Cuba
natural resources management
natural disasters
rural development
sustainable development
The present paper is a non-academic and thus, hopefully, unpretentious, attempt at reviewing the literature on the the role of local institutions and their interaction in disaster risk mitigation (DRM). What will be found on the following pages is a non-exhaustive compendium of strengths and limitations of local institutions involved in DRM and some suggestions for tapping the former and tackling the latter.
Library Resource

African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Revised version).

المعاهدة الافريقية للمحافظة على الطبيعة والموارد الطبيعية.

International Conventions or Treaties
Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Benin, Nigeria, Mauritius, Mauritania, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Guinea-Bissau, Eswatini, Ghana, Congo, Guinea, Ethiopia, Comoros, Eritrea, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Libya, Lesotho, Uganda, Somalia, Madagascar, Central African Republic, Tanzania, Botswana, Senegal, Chad, Gabon, Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Gambia, Mali, Burundi, Sao Tome and Principe, Djibouti, Sierra Leone, Seychelles, Rwanda, Morocco, Niger, South Africa, Togo, Tunisia, Côte d'Ivoire, Sudan, Cameroon, Kenya, Middle Africa, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Northern Africa, Western Asia, Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
fisheries
land management
natural resources management
The Contracting States, in the belief that objectives set out in the Preamble would be better achieved by amending the 1968 Algiers Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources by expanding elements related to sustainable development, have agreed on measures to enhance environmental protection, to foster the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources; and to harmonize and coordinate policies in these fields with a view to achieving ecologically rational, economically sound and socially acceptable development policies and programs for the Convention area.
Library Resource

Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD) in Mozambique

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Mozambique
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
natural resources management
poverty
Mozambique is the 8th most vulnerable country to climate change and is one of the poorest countries in the world with a high dependency on foreign aid. The population is primarily rural and dependent on agriculture, with 60% living on the coastline. Droughts, flooding and cyclones affect particular regions of the country and these are projected to increase in frequency and severity.
Library Resource

Making the links between woodlands and wellbeing: a multi-stakeholder approach

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2015
Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
environment
natural resources management
sustainable land management
The loss of woodland in Mozambique is more than an environmental issue. Choices about land use — whether made locally, provincially or nationally — affect the availability of water, firewood, fertile land and other ‘ecosystem services’ delivered by woodlands. When these services underpin food security and routes out of poverty, what happens to woodlands becomes as much about people.