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Practical Guide for Improving Gender Equality in Territorial Issues (IGETI)

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018
Angola, Mozambique, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Italy, Botswana, Eswatini, Ghana, Thailand
natural resources management
The Guide promotes adapting a convergent and people-centred gender approach towards increasing and improving the provision of goods and services from agriculture, forestry and fisheries in a sustainable manner while reducing rural poverty in different priority areas of FAO’s work. This includes gender equality, territorial development, legal aspects and natural resources management (i.e. pastoralist, forestry, watershed management, climate change and fisheries).
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Progress on level of water stress - Global baseline for SDG 6 Indicator 6.4.2

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018
Uganda, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Lesotho, South Africa, Senegal, Togo, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Suriname, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Jordan, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Micronesia
capacity development
natural resources management
water management
Access to safe water and sanitation and sound management of freshwater ecosystems are at the core of sustainable development. This is the aim of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6), which includes approaches to water management such as environmental flow requirements, international cooperation, capacity building and stakeholder participation.
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Evaluation of FAO’s Contribution to Integrated Natural Resource Management for Sustainable Agriculture (SO2)

Reports & Research
October, 2018
Egypt, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Bolivia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Niger, Colombia, Panama, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Malawi, Kenya, Zambia, Chile, Vietnam, Thailand, Rwanda, Morocco, Hungary, Mexico, Uganda
natural resources management
The focus of Strategic Objective 2 stems from FAO’s vision for sustainable agriculture, which is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda. This evaluation assessed FAO’s efforts in promoting integrated approaches for making agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable. These efforts have proven to be highly relevant in countries where agriculture and food systems face urgent sustainability challenges.
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Poverty and forests: multi-country analysis of spatial association and proposed policy solutions

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
Brazil, Honduras, Malawi, Mozambique, Indonesia, Uganda, Vietnam
Forest Tenure
forestry
forest law
community forestry
poverty
forest management plans
natural resources management
land ownership
This paper examines poverty and deforestation in developing countries as linked problems and focuses on policies that can favour poverty alleviation in forested regions. The paper encompasses two elements: analysis of the spatial coincidence between poverty and forests, and proposed policy options for reducing poverty in forested areas.
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Poverty and forests: multi-country analysis of spatial association and proposed policy solutions

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2007
Brazil, Honduras, Malawi, Mozambique, Indonesia, Uganda, Vietnam
Forest Tenure
forestry
forest law
community forestry
poverty
forest management plans
natural resources management
land ownership
This paper examines poverty and deforestation in developing countries as linked problems and focuses on policies that can favour poverty alleviation in forested regions. The paper encompasses two elements: analysis of the spatial coincidence between poverty and forests, and proposed policy options for reducing poverty in forested areas.
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Politik desentralisasi: hutan, kekuasaan dan rakyat

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2006
Indonesia, Uganda, Ghana, Bolivia, Zimbabwe, Africa, Asia, Central America, South America
Forest Tenure
decentralization
natural resources management
forest management plans
community forestry
forest law
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Implications of climate change for sustainable agricultural production systems in ACP countries Getting information and communication strategies right : Executive Summary: Understanding and Confronting Climate Change: What can be done

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Cape Verde, Comoros, Bahamas, Barbados, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Suriname, Eswatini, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Africa, Caribbean, Oceania
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
natural resources management
rangelands
Summary of adaption and mitigation strategies for reducing the effects of climate change especially with regard to better information and communincation management.
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Land tenure alternative conflict management

Reports & Research
December, 2006
United States of America, Kenya, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, United Kingdom, Canada, Mozambique, Philippines, South Africa, Nicaragua, Uganda, Italy, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil
property rights
natural resources management
land governance
land tenure
land rights
land access
private ownership
land ownership
This training manual focuses on how to manage and resolve conflicts over land tenure rights, security of tenure and land access in the field of rural development. It results from complementary activities undertaken within FAO's Livelihood Support Programme (LSP) and the Land Tenure and Management Unit and with the International Land Coalition. It addresses the specific issues of land tenure identified in the volume Negotiation and Mediation Techniques for Natural Resource Management published by the LSP.
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Mejorar la gobernanza de la tenencia forestal

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Switzerland, Mozambique, Guatemala, Indonesia, Grenada, Ghana, Guyana, Cameroon, Nepal, Philippines, Uganda, Australia, Ecuador, India, Georgia, Papua New Guinea
Forest Tenure
natural resources management
land governance
land tenure
community forestry
forest land
land use
El bienestar humano y la salud del planeta dependen de nuestra voluntad de cuidar de los bosques y de los procedimientos que empleemos para llevar a cabo su explotación. Es por lo tanto esencial saber quién posee y controla los bosques y cómo se ejerce la gobernanza de la tenencia forestal. Esta guía técnica se dirige a quienes desean mejorar la gobernanza de la tenencia forestal, ayudándoles a actuar en cuatro áreas críticas —la comprensión, la organización, la participación y la garantía—, y facilita sus decisiones relacionadas con los bienes y servicios forestales.
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Améliorer la gouvernance des régimes forestiers. Un guide pratique

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Switzerland, Mozambique, Guatemala, Indonesia, Grenada, Canada, Congo, Guyana, Cameroon, Nepal, Philippines, Uganda, India, Russia, Brazil, Ghana
Forest Tenure
natural resources management
land governance
land tenure
community forestry
forest land
land use
Ce guide pratique vise à inspirer et équiper tous ceux qui veulent tenter d’améliorer la situation afin que le pouvoir soit exercé de manière à favoriser les forêts; il décrit comment des outils pratiques peuvent être utilisés pour améliorer la gouvernance des régimes forestiers. Si vous êtes un responsable des politiques du gouvernement, ou si vous appartenez à un autre secteur public, au secteur privé ou à la société civile et êtes intéressé à la gouvernance des forêts et aux réformes foncières, ce guide s’adresse en premier lieu à vous.