This document contains the proceedings of the technical workshop entitled “Expanding mariculture: technical, environmental, spatial and governance challenges”, held from 22 to 25 March 2010, in Orbetello, Italy, and organized by the Aquaculture Branch of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department…
According to the most recent AgLetter, Seventh District farmland values in the third quarter of 2013 were 14 percent higher than a year ago. However, values for “good” agricultural land in the third quarter of 2013 were only 1 percent higher than in the second quarter.
This study aims to examine current land access and youth livelihood opportunities in Southern Ethiopia. Access to agricultural land is a constitutional right for rural residents of Ethiopia. We used survey data from the relatively land abundant districts of Oromia Region and from the land scarce…
While research has revealed the role of common property in risk diversification, poverty alleviation and resource management, few studies identify how common property management systems fill that role uniquely where market mechanisms or private property rights fail. To address that gap, the…
El presente trabajo científico evalúa los dos enfoques Fome Zero de Brasil y Oportunidades de México como estrategia para mejorar la seguridad alimentaria. El análisis muestra varias diferencias, pero también similtudes significativas en las estructuras económicas, sociales y ambientales…
Rural Development Knowledge and Information Systems Urban Development - Urban Governance and Management Poverty Reduction - Rural Poverty Reduction Governance - Regional Governance Rural Development
Public Sector Economics Public Sector Management and Reform Banks and Banking Reform Urban Development - Municipal Housing and Land Rural Development - Common Property Resource Development Finance and Financial Sector Development Public Sector Development
The spatial distribution of vegetation trends identified by time series analysis of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for the Mongolian grasslands was cross-referenced with the recently obtained land use/cover data and socioeconomic information in the geographic domain. Global…
Desde los años 80 diversos proyectos de exportación de agua en grandes cantidades han sido concebidos tanto en Estados Unidos como en Canadá dada la abundancia del agua en la región de los Grandes Lagos de Norteamérica y las frecuentes declaraciones de estados de sequías intensas en el suroeste…
Agricultural Credit, Land Ownership, Young and Beginning Farmers, Agricultural Finance, Farm Management, Land Economics/Use, Q14, H24, H25,
In order to ensure agricultural sustainability, as highlighted in the millennium development goals, it has become necessary to focus policies on enhancing sustainable land management, especially in vulnerable areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Hence there is the need for this study which was designed…