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Modo capitalista de produção, agricultura e reforma agrária

Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2006
Brasil

Compreender a questão agrária sob o modo capitalista de produção sempre foi tarefa difícil e complicada. Não porque muitos autores não a tenham praticamente esgotada, mas porque os estudos mais trazem discordâncias do que convergência. Por isso, esta temática cria atritos entre os conservadores e os progressistas, entre os socialistas e os comunistas, e entre todos eles e os anarquistas. Não há possibilidade nenhuma de consenso ou mesmo de aproximações. Sempre haverá pressupostos que se interporão abrindo espaço para a polêmica e discussões.

The Dynamics of Social Capital and Conflict Management in Multiple Resource Regimes

Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2006
Uganda

Increasingly, social capital, defined as shared norms, trust, and the horizontal and vertical social networks that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutually beneficial collective action, is seen as an important asset upon which people rely to manage natural resources and resolve conflicts. This paper uses empirical data from households and community surveys and case studies, to examine the role, strengths, and limits of social capital in managing conflicts over the use and management of natural resources.

La pobreza : En el encuentro del ordenamiento territorial y la lucha contra la desertificación

Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2006
Argentina

El ordenamiento territorial y la lucha contra la desertificación constituyen dos vertientes del conocimiento con gran entidad en sí mismos y no es frecuente encontrar una articulación entre sus respectivos enfoques y perspectivas ni tampoco propuestas operativas que sinergicen sus resultados. La integración de ambas vertientes podría resultar en desarrollos teóricos, metodológicos y propuestas de intervención capaces de mitigar las condiciones de inequidad y pobreza que se ponen en evidencia en amplios territorios de tierras secas de la Argentina.

Increasing the resilience of dryland agro-ecosystems to climate change

Dezembro, 2006

The current debate on climate change, its impacts on socio-ecological systems and the role of agriculture has shifted from an emphasis on how to mitigate the effects of increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to how to prepare and adapt to the expected adverse impacts. This follows the recognition that the climate is already changing as a result of mankind’s activities and there is little that can be done to prevent further increases in atmospheric concentrations of GHG in the short term.

The Chad-Cameroon oil & pipeline project: a project non-compliance report

Dezembro, 2006
Chade
Camarões
África subsariana

This report assesses the role of the World Bank in the funding and management of the Chad-Cameroon oil and pipeline project. The report argues that the project has fueled violence, impoverished people in the oil fields and along the pipeline route, exacerbated the pressures on indigenous peoples and created new environmental problems. The report highlights how the World Bank’s Implementation Completion Report (ICR) is inconsistent with other independent reports on the project.

Coping with riverbank erosion induced displacement

Dezembro, 2006
Bangladesh

Each year, tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh are internally displaced as a consequence of riverbank erosion. Yet, such erosion does not draw the attention of policy makers in the same way that other natural disasters do and as a result, a number of coping mechanisms are employed by those affected, with the burden of displacement largely falling on women. This brief argues that instead of attempting to alter the course of nature, it is time to address the institutional mechanisms needed to help affected people cope with displacement and their material and social loss.

Local communities and natural products: a manual for organising natural resource management groups for resource management planning, enterprise development and integration into value chains

Reports & Research
Dezembro, 2006
Ásia Meridional
Nepal

Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is key to ensuring that local communities' livelihoods needs are met through the sustainable management of natural resources. Policies promoting CBNRM mean that government agencies, non-governmental organisations and other service providers are increasingly becoming involved in supporting these communities to form natural resource management (NRM) groups to make progress in areas of resource governance and realise its economic benefits through natural resource based enterprise.

Water rights and wrongs: a young people's summary of the United Nations Human Development Report 2006, Beyond Scarcity: power, poverty, and the global water crisis

Dezembro, 2006

Aimed at young people, this booklet presents key points from the 2006 Human Development Report on water scarcity and its effects on human life. The report is user-friendly, using photographs and illustrations, stories from young people, basic data on the health effects of poor-quality water, and examples of efforts to bring water to poor communities.

Peri-urban water conflicts: supporting dialogue and negotiation

Dezembro, 2006
Índia
Bolívia
Brasil
Ásia Meridional
América Latina e Caribe

As cities expand, a key challenge is securing water supplies for urban populations and disposing of pollution while minimising impacts on peri-urban communities and the environment.  This book describes the conflicts, dialogues and negotiations underway in peri-urban areas of many cities in the South.