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Following the Money: An Advocate's Guide to Securing Accountability in Agricultural Investments

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Reports & Research
Noviembre, 2014
Myanmar

... Large-scale agricultural investments – in plantations, processing plants or contract farming schemes, for example – have increased in recent years, particularly in developing countries. Investment in the agriculture sector can bring much needed support for rural development, but communities have also witnessed significant negative impacts.

ATC141126: Report of the SC Land on oversight visit to entities of Departments of Mineral Resources & Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries, dated 25 November 2014

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Legislation & Policies
Noviembre, 2014
Sudáfrica

The Select Committee on Land and Mineral Resources having conducted oversight at the Council of Geosciences (CGS), the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) and Onderstepoort Biological Products (OBP), from 21 – 22 October 2014 reports as follows:

1. Background and Introduction

Evaluacion de la deforestacion y sus impactos ambientales: provincia de Padre Abad

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Journal Articles & Books
Noviembre, 2014
Perú

El estudio está orientado a evaluar los problemas de la deforestación, mediante la aplicación del Sistema de Información Geográfica (SIG), que viene impactando en el medio ambiente, con el propósito de mostrar las áreas críticas para un mejor ordenamiento espacial y manejo de los recursos; en tal sentido, nos trazamos los siguientes objetivos: estudiar y analizar la deforestacion y el cambio en

Estatuto da Agricultura Familiar Portuguesa

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Reports & Research
Octubre, 2014
Portugal

É cada vez mais forte a percepção das populações, de governos e de instituições internacionais de que a humanidade não pode continuar a ser empurrada para o precipício, com as políticas das últimas décadas, de intensificação da produção agropecuária e florestal e o aumento do poder hegemónico de grandes companhias multinacionais da indústria e da distribuição, que controlam a produção e detêm c

Gender in REDD+: Q&A handbook - Myanmar

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Institutional & promotional materials
Octubre, 2014
Myanmar

The main objective of the handbook is to support local trainers and facilitators who are already familiar with climate change and REDD+. It provides them with useful information on gender considerations for climate change and REDD+ related training and capacity development programs.

Community Forestry Adaptation Roadmap to 2020 for Vietnam

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Reports & Research
Octubre, 2014
Vietnam

Community forestry supports local level climate change adaptation by enhancing resilience in multiple ways: supporting livelihoods and income, increasing food security, leveraging social capital and knowledge, reducing disaster risks and regulating microclimates. However, adaptation planning has, by and large, not included community forestry as a viable climate change adaptation tool.

Community Forestry Adaptation Roadmap to 2020 for Cambodia

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Reports & Research
Octubre, 2014
Cambodia

Community forestry supports local level climate change adaptation by enhancing resilience in multiple ways: supporting livelihoods and income, increasing food security, leveraging social capital and knowledge, reducing disaster risks and regulating microclimates. However, adaptation planning has, by and large, not included community forestry as a viable climate change adaptation tool.

Community Forestry Adaptation Roadmap to 2020 for Thailand

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Reports & Research
Octubre, 2014
Thailand

Community forestry supports local level climate change adaptation by enhancing resilience in multiple ways: supporting livelihoods and income, increasing food security, leveraging social capital and knowledge, reducing disaster risks and regulating microclimates. However, adaptation planning has, by and large, not included community forestry as a viable climate change adaptation tool.

Community Forestry: A National Approach to Safeguard Information Systems (SIS)

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Policy Papers & Briefs
Octubre, 2014
South-Eastern Asia

Community forestry can be part of an approach that ensures important rights such as basic livelihood needs, forest access and tenure and participation in decision-making are met. It also provides a basket of multiple benefits with the potential to incentivise sustainable forest management whether or not carbon payments come through.