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From relief to recovery: rebuilding Afghanistan

January, 2002
Land & Food Security
food security
land tenure
This issue focuses on the economic, social and instiutional restructuring required in Afghanistan to achieve food security and justice.The major areas of action required include:the revival of Afghan agricultureaffirmative actions to restore Afghan women’s rightseducation to develop human capital The articles included are:From relief to recovery: rebuilding AfghanistanTribal strengths can help manage common landHungry for learning: food for education programmes
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Global water outlook to 2025: averting an impending crisis

January, 2002
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
environment
food security
IFPRI and IWMI's report uses computer modeling to project water demand and availability through to 2025 and predicts the likely impact of changes in water policy and investment, making specific recommendations for specific locations around the globe.The report argues that if current water policies continue, farmers will find it difficult to meet the world’s food needs. Hardest hit will be the world’s poorest people.
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World water and food to 2025: dealing with scarcity

January, 2002
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
environment
food security
The key messages of this presentation are:

Increasing competition for water severely limits irrigation and constrains food production

Slow progress in extending access to safe drinking water; water quality will decline; amount of water for environmental uses will be inadequate

Moderate worsening in current water policies and investments could lead to full-blown water crisis

Fundamental changes in water management and policy can produce a sustainable future for water and food
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Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Peer-reviewed publication
Reports & Research
December, 2002
South America, Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land degradation
poverty
land tenure
land tenure systems
deforestation
land valuation
natural resources management
Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier?
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Reaching sustainable food security for all by 2020

getting the priorities and responsibilities right

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2002
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
land degradation
food security
poverty
natural resources management
"As part of its 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment Initiative, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has articulated a vision of what the world should look like in 2020: it should be a world free from poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and unsustainable natural resource management.
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Village stratification for policy analysis: Multiple development domains in the Ethiopian highlands

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2002
Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
development
This paper presents a method for stratifying villages into Development domains using multivariate analysis of a broad community-based survey. The results from the analysis are used to draw conclusions in terms of policy implications. Topics of discussion include Development domains and policy implications. The paper ends with comment by Samuel Benin.
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The effect of environmental variability on livestock and land-use management: The Borana plateau, southern Ethiopia

Reports & Research
December, 2002
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
environment
natural resources management
rangelands
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Policies for sustainable land management in the East African highlands

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2002
Eastern Africa, Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land management
rangelands
This document presents the proceedings of the international conference held at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 24-26, 2002. The theme of the conference was Policies for Sustainable Land Management in the East African Highlands, which was convened to bring together researchers, policy makers, development practitioners, donors and others to review, discuss and synthesize the findings and policy implications of policy research related to sustainable land management in the East African highlands.
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Measuring the production efficiency of alternative land tenure contracts in a mixed crop-livestock system in Ethiopia

Reports & Research
December, 2002
Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
land tenure
Although the question of relative production efficiency of indigenous land rights is central to a discussion of land reform in sub-Saharan Africa, there is relatively little rigorous empirical research because of a lack of adequate disaggregated data with the exception of few studies, the subject has not benefited from rigorous empirical analysis. Further, most studies have covered only areas of rainfed agriculture.
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Livelihood strategies and land management practices in the highlands of Tigray

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2002
Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
This paper investigates the livelihood strategies and land management practices used in the highlands of Tigray region, the factor influencing them, and their implications for crop production and income, livestock income and investment, other sources of income, and farmers; perceptions of land degradation. The findings of the study shows that profitable opportunities exist to increase agricultural production, household incomes and achieve more sustainable land management in the highlands of Tigray. The paper ends with comment from Frank Place.