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Displaying 4811 - 4815 of 5074Private Sector Assessment for the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and other Natural Resources
FAO and its development partners are working together with countries to prepare Voluntary Guidelines that will provide practical guidance to states, the private sector, civil society, academia, donors and development specialists on the responsible governance of tenure. By setting out principles and internationally accepted standards for responsible practice and associated technical guidance, the Voluntary Guidelines will provide a framework and point of reference that stakeholders can use when developing their own policies and actions.
Guidelines for the identification, selection and description of nationally based indicators of land degradation and improvement
This guidelines booklet is addressed to the LADA partner countries and, more in
general, to the increasing number of countries which are expressing their interest in
implementing the LADA approach for mapping Land Degradation.
The specific objective is to provide guidelines for the identification, selection and
description of nationally based indicators of land degradation.
The LADA approach is well defined by a range of specific documents and manuals.
The National indicators common to all countries are based on the LADA-Wocat QM
Manual for Local Level Assessment of Land Degradati on and Sustainable Land Management Part I
This document is the first part of a two part manual on local level assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management:
? Part 1 ? Planning and Methodological Approach, Analysis and Reporting
? Part 2 ? Field Methodology and Tools
Access to and Control over Land from a Gender Perspective - A Study Conducted in the Volta Region of Ghana
This report is the outcome of a study undertaken on men and women’s access to and control
over land in seven districts of the Volta Region in Ghana. The study evolved out of a need for
increased insight into gender differences in access to and control over land and the implications of insecure access to land for households within the Volta Region of Ghana.
The objective of the study was to obtain an improved understanding of gender-specific
land reform - land settlement and cooperatives - Special Edition
The papers contained in this issue have been selected from those presented at a series of workshops, held in 2002 in Hungary, Uganda, Mexico and Cambodia, that were organized by the World Bank jointly with the Department for International Development (DFID), the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and with FAO, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the African development Bank (AfDB), the European Union (EU), the International Land Coalition, Oxfam, and other bilateral an