This document focuses on implication of agricultural reform for the alleviation of rural poverty in Africa. The document also was prepared for presentation at the Advisory Committee meeting on mobilization of domestic resources, agricultural reform and self-evaluation of good governance scheduled to be convened by the Global Coalition for Africa in Harare, Zimbabwe, from 1-3 June 1994.

Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and English

Review for sub-Saharan Africa, examines the English-language literature and focuses on four important dimensions of exclusion: (i) exclusion from agricultural land; (ii) exclusion from agricultural livelihood; (iii) exclusion from formal and informal employment; (iv) exclusion from organization and representation.Paper is organized in six sections. The first section discusses concepts of exclusion. The main body of the review examines the four dimensions of exclusion listed above.

Environmental policy should be inspired by the recognition that the environment is everyone’s business; all social actors must be involved in environmental management. Policies that implicitly subsidize a wasteful and environmentally destructive use of resources are pervasive: reforms should command a high priority on economic as well as environmental grounds. Compared to regulation, market-based instruments are little used but they can be more efficient; they can also produce revenues to finance environmental improvements.

This paper reviews the process of agricultural policy reforms in Morocco in the 1980's, with particular emphasis on the cereals and sugar sub-sectors. Agricultural policy is reviewed in historical perspective, to show that the liberalisation process which was proposed in the framework of structural adjustment reforms ran contrary to the agricultural development strategy followed by Morocco since Independence. The macro-economic performance of Morocco is examined. It shows that the origin of the economic policy reforms can be found in the necessity to seek balance of payment ssupport.

Agriculture, forestry and fishing are important sectors of Ghana's economy and improvement in the performance of these sectors is central to the country's current economic recovery programme.1 The severe economic decline which the country went through between the early 1970's and the early 1980's affected poorer socio-economic groups in particular 2 through depressed wage levels and increased unemployment.

Paralelamente a la creciente preocupacin por el ambiente, se ha manifestado una gran inquietud por el porvenir de los recursos forestales mundiales. As lo demuestra fehacientemente la adhesin de ms de 70 pases en desarrollo a los principios del Plan de Accin Forestal en los Trpicos. En este nmero, Unasylva examina varios aspectos de la relacin del bosque con el medio ambiente. Uno de los temas ms animadamente debatidos es el de la perspectiva de que cambie el clima en todo el mundo. K.

The objective of this report Is to take a closer look at the first of these two important issues underlying the human resources problem within the agriculture sector, and to suggest a strategy that would lead to a programme of action for guiding member states in their individual and collective efforts to achieving food self-sufficiency in the years ahead. The report begins with an over-view of the manpower situation and requirements within the sector by 1980 and what that picture could look like by the year 2000.

Precisa diversas definiciones de pobreza en funcion de conceptos tales como marginalidad, necesidades basicas y estabilidad democratica, con el fin de profundizar el analisis de la problematica metropolitana para estudiar la relacion que se puede establecer entre calidad de vida y planificacion del desarrollo urbano.

Precisa diversas definiciones de pobreza en función de conceptos tales como marginalidad, necesidades básicas y estabilidad democrática, con el fin de profundizar el análisis de la problemática metropolitana para estudiar la relación que se puede establecer entre calidad de vida y planificación del desarrollo urbano.