Supporting Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGTs) is a programme that provides countries with a framework for best practices in tenurerelated policies, laws, regulations, strategies and practices. Its Phase 1 was implemented from October 2012 to June 2016 as a multi-donor programme overseen by a steering committee and managed by the VG-Tenure Secretariat hosted by FAO.
Search results
Showing items 1 through 9 of 15.-
Library ResourceReports & ResearchSeptember, 2016Malawi, Uganda, South Africa, Liberia, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guatemala, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland
-
Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2016France, Bangladesh, Honduras, Germany, Peru, Guatemala, United Kingdom, Congo, Guinea, Cameroon, Seychelles, Morocco, Philippines, Japan, Myanmar, Ireland, Gabon, Norway
The Conference of the Parties (COP) of UNFCCC is a prime opportunity to communicate FAO’s work on climate change and to liaise with potential partners, at the numerous side events and parallel events organized around the COP. This booklet seeks to raise awareness on the impacts of climate change on food security and nutrition and advocate for the importance of having the agricultural sectors properly considered in climate change mechanisms, policies and finances.
-
Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksSeptember, 2016Estonia, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Australia, Jamaica, Bolivia, Cuba, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Madagascar, Colombia, Ecuador, Netherlands, Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, South America
La quinua es un ejemplo extraordinario de un cultivo que pasó de ser considerado olvidado a un cultivo de interés y consumo mundial, tanto es así que la Organización de las Naciones Unidas declararon el año 2013 el Año Internacional de la Quinua. Como todo cultivo en expansión, las plagas y enfermedades asociadas a este cultivo se constituyen en un serio factor restrictivo.
-
Library ResourceReports & ResearchSeptember, 2016Bangladesh, Philippines, Sweden, Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia, India, Costa Rica, Finland, Norway, Mongolia
<p>This <i>Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) Manual</i> is designed as a tool for project practitioners of a broad range of projects and programmes of any development organization, by providing information about the right to FPIC and how it can be implemented in six steps.</p> <p>In an FPIC process, the “how”, “when” and “with and by whom”, are as important as “what” is being proposed. For an FPIC process to be effective and result in consent or lack of it, the way in which the process is conducted is paramount.
-
Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016Algeria, France, Sweden, Guatemala, Peru, Germany, Bolivia, Republic of Korea, Cameroon, Rwanda, Morocco, Philippines, South Africa, Malaysia, Cambodia, Tunisia, Sudan, Czech Republic, Uganda, Lebanon
Meeting Name: FAO Committee on Forestry
Meeting symbol/code: COFO/2016/7.5
Session: Sess. 23 -
Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsFebruary, 2016Finland, Bolivia, Gambia, Myanmar, Sweden, Germany, Guatemala
As a large proportion of the rural private sector, forest and farm producers are the primary actors in rural transformation and sustainable development. They possess knowledge and experience essential to shaping effective successful policies and actions. Through its support to local and national producer organizations, the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) is working to ensure forest and farm producers are involved in national decision-making processes that impact their livelihoods and the sustainable management of forests, in turn helping to achieve many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
-
Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016Chile, United States of America, Kenya, Zambia, Gambia, Sweden, Germany, Guatemala, Australia, Bolivia, Myanmar, Finland, Nepal, Liberia, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Italy, United Kingdom, Mexico, Asia, Africa, Americas
This report is a mid-term evaluation (MTE) of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF), one of the first “umbrella programmes” within the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
-
Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsMarch, 2016France, 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.
-
Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016Fiji, Estonia, Benin, Honduras, Iraq, Chile, Burkina Faso, China, Guatemala, Indonesia, Ghana, Djibouti, Costa Rica, Colombia, Uganda, Ecuador, Cuba, Argentina, India, Georgia, Armenia, Austria
Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA-16/17/11
Session: Sess.16 -
Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016Chile, United States of America, Kenya, Zambia, Gambia, Sweden, Germany, China, Guatemala, Bolivia, Myanmar, Finland, Cameroon, Nepal, Liberia, Philippines, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico, Asia, Africa, Americas
This report is a mid-term evaluation (MTE) of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF), one of the first “umbrella programmes” within the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Land Library Search
Through our robust search engine, you can search for any item of the over 64,800 highly curated resources in the Land Library.
If you would like to find an overview of what is possible, feel free to peruse the Search Guide.