This publication is a set of practical guidelines and norms for field project engineers for the design and building of small hydraulic structures using earth and gabions. This publication would be useful in designing small earth dams with a gabion spillway, intake weirs for gravity irrigation schemes, groynes, river bed training works and for protection against hydraulic erosion.

Spatial data is crucial for sustainable land management and environmental protection; therefore the development of spatial data infrastructure (SDI) ensures accessibility of information for decision-making. Many national organizations have begun to recognize the need to justify the large public investments they receive by improving access and encouraging a broader use of the information in their custody.

The author begins by providing a brief overview of the concept and reasoning behind certification of forest products. She states that, at the outset, one of the aims of certification was to provide market access and other benefits for small-scale, low-impact, community run ‘eco-timber’ projects.

Population growth and urbanisation are driving a livestock revolution. Mixed farming systems are the present and the foreseeable future of West African livestock systems, with concurrent changes in livestock feeding systems and the role of grazing, fodder and penning. The livestock economy has to be seen as part of a national economy in which urban and rural facets interact. Effective policies need to be based on recognition of the capacity of rural people to invest in improving their livelihoods.

Forty per cent of sub-Saharan Africa's population live on less than a dollar a day and more than seventy per cent are currently without adequate shelter, so what has property got to do with it? This paper attempts to highlight the need for Africa to develop the necessary institutions to support the property and construction sectors, to facilitate infrastructure delivery and promote sustainable growth and development.The authors highlight the fact that Africa, whilst being well endowed with natural resources their capital markets remain underdeveloped.

This paper examines the conversion of Indonesia’s natural forests to timber and tree crop plantations, notably oil palm. The principal aims are to understand the impact of this process on natural forest and on forest-dwelling people, and to establish whether past and present policies governing this process are meeting their objectives.

In 1997 is het rapport van het Staring Centrum 'Meten van Maatwerk: monitoring van het WCL-beleid 1994-1996' uitgebracht. De conclusie uit dit rapport was dat er nogal wat verschillen zijn tussen WCL-gebieden als er gekeken wordt naar sturing en het aantal projecten dat is gestart. Door gebruik te maken van kennis over marketing en samenwerking zou de sturing en integraliteit van de reeds lopende initiatieven uitgebreid kunnen worden. Het onderzoek richt zich op het pilotgebied 'de Meierij' en de daarbij betrokken actoren.

This the Belizean housing and town planning act. It is the primary piece of legislation for these topics.

This paper discusses – at the sub-basin level – the regional differences and comparative advantages for agricultural development and water resources utilization in the Nile Basin. It looks at options for development, projected in the regional context, and the importance of agricultural water use for social and food security in the different parts of the basin.

One of the guiding mandates within the FAO Constitution is the following: “The Organization shall promote and, where appropriate, shall recommend national and international action with respect to: … the conservation of natural resources and the adoption of improved methods of agricultural production ...”. In many African countries, in addition to low yields, food production is limited by the availability of land and water resources.

La globalización y la localización, entendidas como la integración a la economíamundial y la crecienda demanda de autonomía local, son identificadas como las dosfuerzas que, en la actualidad, más influyen en la forma que adopta el desarrollo en cadasociedad (The World Bank, 1999) Las ciudades adquieren indiscutiblemente un nuevoprotagonismo, con una tendencia cada vez mayor a que sean centro de decisiones, deestrategias propias, de políticas innovadoras, artífices de relaciones comerciales punto apunto sin intermediación de jurisdicciones provinciales o nacionales (Batley, 1998;Daughters, 1

What evidence is there of gender inequalities in life outcomes between women and men? This report provides facts and figures that expose gender inequalities, providing evidence of the need to engender development. It offers an insight into the available gender statistics in the following areas: poverty, health, access to resources, education, globalisation, governance, conflicts and emergencies, and human rights. The Beijing Platform for Action (1995) highlighted the different needs of women and men, girls and boys.