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Displaying 4841 - 4845 of 5074The Impact of HIV/AIDS on rural households and land issues in Southern and Eastern Africa
This background paper intends to highlight key issues surrounding the impact of HIV/AIDS on land, particularly at the rural household level in Southern and Eastern Africa. It also serves as an introduction to three country reports commissioned by the Sub-Regional Office for Southern and Eastern Africa of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the impact of the epidemic on land issues. These studies are focused on Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa.
LAND RESOURCES INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN THE CARIBBEAN
This document contains the proceedings of the Subregional Workshop on Land Water Information Systems (LWRIS) in the Caribbean, held in Barbados in October 2000. The meeting was organized by FAO Land and Water Development Division (AGL), in collaboration with the Caribbean Agricultural and Research Development Institute.
Livestock geography and land use
Whilst still in its infancy, the development of geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) tools is paving the way for global land use monitoring. This paper provides a first, tentative description of livestock related land use.
Changing customary land rights and gender relations in the context of HIV/AIDS in Africa1
The effect of prime-age adult death and its consequences on access to land for the survivors has not been fully explored nor incorporated into policy regardless the fact that high adult mortality is now
the lived reality in countries affected by HIV/AIDS, particularly in Africa. This paper explores the
gendered relationships between adult death due to HIV/AIDS and changes in land rights for the
survivors particularly widows. In many African societies, women have traditionally accessed land
Agricultural Recovery and Individual Land Tenure: Lessons from Central Asia
One of the striking features of transition from plan to market in CIS agriculture is the
dramatic shift from the predominance of large corporate farms (kolkhozy and sovkhozy,
generally referred to as agricultural enterprises) to individual or family agriculture based on a
spectrum of small farms. The individual sector, combining the traditional household plots and
the new peasant farms that began to emerge after 1992, accounts for most of agricultural
production and controls a large share of arable land. This is a dramatic change from the pre-