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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2016
    Ghana

    This paper explores the role of Manhyia Palace, a traditional political office of the Asantehene (King of Asante Kingdom) in traditional land conflict management in Kumasi. Land conflicts remain a major hindrance to land use and tenure security in most parts of Ghana. Sometimes, the institutions governing land use and management are crucial to the occurrence and adjudication of these disputes. Consequently, statistics at the Accra High Court Registry shows that, land litigation ranks first in the number of cases pending with about 60,000 cases being registered in the superior courts.

  2. Library Resource
    Legislation
    March, 2016
    Cape Verde

    This Decree-Law, consisting of 7 Chapters and three Annexes, regulates the preparation and implementation process of the Plans for the Management of Coastal Zones and the Adjacent Sea (POOC_M). This Plans are territorial management tools containing a set of actions for the coastal zone management, which interventions are planned for the terrestrial areas, referred as 'onshore', and areas called as 'adjacent sea areas'.

  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2016
    Tanzania, Ghana, Guinea, Somalia, Nigeria, Africa

    This booklet presents an overview of the issue of soil management practices in Africa. It briefly presents the 12-Resolution “Abuja Declaration on Fertilizer for the African Green Revolution” adopted in 2006 and contextualizes the 2014 adoption by the 23rd Summit of the African Union of the Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods that reaffirmed that agriculture should remain high on the development agenda of the continent.

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2016
    France, Nigeria, Belgium, Nepal, Burundi, Germany, Guatemala, United Kingdom, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Italy, Niger, Malawi, Switzerland, Kenya, South Africa, Finland, Uganda, Somalia, Myanmar, Senegal

    Four years since the Voluntary Guidelines were endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security as the global consensus on improving tenure, their principles and processes are inspiring people around the world to take action. With wide ownership by governments, civil society and the private sector, they represent an unbiased framework in which new conversations on tenure are taking place, new skills are being developed, and new policies are being influenced in participatory ways.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2016
    Burkina Faso, Switzerland, United States of America, Togo, Mali, France, Canada, Congo, Niger, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Italy, Austria, Senegal, Chad, Gabon, Côte d'Ivoire

    TTI disseminates current information on all aspects of tsetse and trypansomosis research and control to institutions and invididuals involved in the problems of African trypanosomosis. This services forms an integral part of the Programme Against African Trypanosomosis (PAAT).

  6. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2016
    Uganda, Nigeria, Guatemala, Cambodia, Finland

    SOLA & Open Tenure are open-source software to help protect tenure rights and support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2016
    Nepal, Liberia, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Germany, Mongolia, Asia, Africa

    The VGGTs provide a paramount opportunity for reversing gender inequalities in agriculture and for promoting more gender-equitable governance of land tenure.

  8. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2016
    Angola, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Mali, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Congo, Malawi, Niger, Kenya, Africa

    La FAO a organisé et intégré ses activités dans la région autour de trois Initiatives régionales. Ces Initiatives répondent aux priorités des États membres et permettra d’avoir des résultats tangibles dans des délais bien précis, tout en répondant aux Objectifs stratégiques de la FAO. En Afrique, les Initiatives régionales ont été élaborées sur la base d’un examen intersectorielle et interdisciplinaire approfondi des questions régionales.

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2016
    Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, Australia, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Niger, Africa

    This climate-smart agriculture scoping study for Ethiopia was produced by the FAO. The study is aimed at identifying and documenting existing climate-smart agriculture practices in Ethiopia that enable stakeholders to understand the opportunities and constraints to adopting particular climate-smart agriculture technologies or practices.

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