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  1. Library Resource
    Videos
    August, 2014
    Ghana, Nigeria

    In Big Men, director Rachel Boynton has achieved a tour-de-force of documentary filmmaking. Taking a large, complex and much-contested phenomenon -- the oil business as it is conducted in under-developed countries such as Ghana and Nigeria -- she has crafted an edge-of-your-seat, character-driven drama that is also a clear and enlightening film about the global dealings behind petroleum, a crucial resource that touches everyone's life.

  2. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    August, 2014
    Africa

    Pastoralism has been under pressure due to a number of factors including climate change, population pressure and socioeconomic dynamism. These factors have affected the relationships among different pastoral groups and the functioning of the customary institutions in managing natural resources. Interference of the state structures into pastoral areas, land alienation for large scale investment and delineation of protected area from communal grazing areas have negatively affected the relationships between pastoralists and the state.

  3. Library Resource

    Master of Science Thesis

    Reports & Research
    August, 2014
    South Africa

    Water security is influenced by the complex interplay between ecological, socio-political, governance and water management systems. Achieving water security is essential for ensuring sustainable development, and challenges with water security are closely linked to the overall experience of poverty that many countries throughout the world, including South Africa, confront. These problems can broadly be understood through three main factors: water availability, access and usage; water governance and management underpin these factors.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2014
    Mozambique

    O programa conhecido por ProSAVANA tem sido objecto de um amplo debate na sociedade. O presente texto não pretende fazer uma apresentação do programa. Tem por objectivo principal reflectir sobre a evolução dos principais elementos/paradigmas das políticas agrárias subjacentes às opções do programa.

  5. Library Resource
    Gender inequalities
    Reports & Research
    August, 2014
    Zambia

    BarotseFloodplain, Western Province of Zambia
    •Multiple demographic, socioeconomic and climatic challenges and vulnerabilities
    •Variety of livelihood opportunities: flood –provide fish & aquatic plants; water subside –fertile ground to cultivate crops
    •Cattle, forest products, fish trade, piecework

     

  6. Library Resource
    Cover photo

    Legal Framework and Realities on the Ground

    Peer-reviewed publication
    August, 2014
    Tanzania

    Beginning in the mid-1970s through to the 1980s, Tanzania experienced a severe socio-economic crisis. In an attempt to turn things around the abating economy and accelerate economic growth, the government embarked on a broad range of radical policy, legislation, and institution reforms, which opened doors for foreign direct investments (FDIs) and further initiatives have been taken to create an enabling environment for investments to flourish in the country.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2014
    Angola, Burkina Faso, Benin, Zambia, Chile, Burundi, China, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Austria, Congo, Bangladesh, Guyana, Armenia, Colombia, Kenya, Australia, Uruguay, Botswana, Argentina, Chad, Togo

    Meeting Name: Committee on Forestry
    Meeting symbol/code: COFO/2014/REP

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