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  1. Library Resource
    Regulations
    January, 2013
    Chile

    Mediante este Decreto se aprueba el Reglamento del Registro de Emisiones y Transferencias de Contaminantes, que constituye una base de datos accesible al público, destinada a capturar, recopilar, sistematizar, conservar, analizar y difundir la información sobre emisiones, residuos y transferencias de contaminantes potencialmente dañinos para la salud y el medio ambiente que son emitidos al entorno, generados en actividades industriales o no industriales o transferidos para su valorización o eliminación.

  2. Library Resource
    January, 2013

    DFID are looking to propose that the UK supports a package of measures to strengthen land transparency and ultimately governance. This work is of a high priority for DFID and the wider UK Government. Following further research on the evidence and internal discussions, DFID have identified a gap relating to two specific questions:

    1.    What are the impacts of large-scale land acquisitions (LSA) on local food insecurity and malnutrition levels? 
    2.    Is there a difference in impacts whether investments are international or local? 

  3. Library Resource
    January, 2013
    Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean

    This short, desk-top study investigates and reviews how technology is being used in developing countries to promote transparency around land acquisitions. This includes reactive solutions to identify and highlight what land acquisitions have taken place and proactive solutions that promote and protect land rights from future land acquisitions.

  4. Library Resource
    January, 2013

    This reference list has been collated – as part of a HelpDesk enquiry that was undertaken by the Evidence on Demand team – to peer-review social and gender issues in a business case, relating to forests and climate change. Whilst not exhaustive, this list may act as a useful resource in the development of future business cases. References are divided into two main categories: 1.Gender issues and forestry Gender participation, empowerment and forests  Gender research and sustainable forestry  Gender mainstreaming  Gender and agriculture  Gender, climate change and forests

  5. Library Resource
    January, 2013
    Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean

    In Mesoamerica, coffee is an important part of agricultural GDP and export revenues which supports about half a million farmers, and employs millions of people on the farms and all along the supply chain. This policy brief summarises the potential risks and impacts of climate change on coffee farming in the region. Traditional coffee agroforests provide important ecosystem services and conserve significant carbon stocks.

  6. Library Resource
    January, 2013

    IATP have consistently argued that trade agreements need to respect and promote human rights, not drive a process of globalisation that privileges commercial interests and pushes public interests aside. This paper concludes that the globalisation enshrined in the free trade and investment agreements of the 1990s and 2000s have led to yet another manifestation of commercial interests trampling human rights - namely land grabs.

  7. Library Resource
    January, 2013
    Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, Eastern Asia, Oceania, Southern Asia

    This report examines the history, structure and monitoring mechanisms of REDD+ to better understand how it impacts upon, and interacts with, Community Forest Management (CFM). It presents case studies of CFM and REDD+ governance from Bangladesh, Indonesia and India, and concludes with some lessons learned.REDD+ is an example of multilevel governance that uses a variety of institutional structures and processes aimed at promoting sustainable management of forests, including financial incentives to reduce deforestation and forest degradation.

  8. Library Resource
    January, 2013
    Global

    Using subnational historical data, this
    paper establishes the within country persistence of economic
    activity in the New World over the last half millennium. The
    paper constructs a data set incorporating measures of
    pre-colonial population density, new measures of present
    regional per capita income and population, and a
    comprehensive set of locational fundamentals. These
    fundamentals are shown to have explanatory power: native

  9. Library Resource
    January, 2013
    Sri Lanka

    Following the cessation of hostilities
    in May 2009, the Government of Sri Lanka has announced a
    suitably ambitious macroeconomic vision to capitalize on the
    peace dividend. Its goals include growing at 8 percent or
    more per year and lowering government indebtedness from
    around 80 to 60 percent of GDP by 2015. This paper's
    main finding is that while some post-conflict bounce is only
    to be expected, sustaining high growth presents significant

  10. Library Resource
    January, 2013

    This paper examines the effectiveness of
    a variety of policy interventions that have been tried in
    developing and transition economies with the goal of
    improving women's employability and quality of work.
    The programs include active labor market programs, education
    and training programs, programs that facilitate work (such
    as childcare subsidies, parental leave programs and land
    titling programs), microfinance programs, entrepreneurship

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