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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    May, 2002
    Africa, Malawi

    This paper explores household variation in land tenure security and drought shocks across villages to investigate the extent to which land tenure systems matter in households’ capacity to cope with adverse impacts of weather shocks for agricultural dependent households in rural Malawi. Our findings reveal that land tenure security cushions the effects of drought regimes on food security. Further, we establish access to credit facilities for farm investment purposes as the underlying channel that mediates the impact of drought shocks on food insecurity.

  2. Library Resource
    National Policies
    January, 2003
    Rwanda

    The protection and management of environment are among the pillars of Vision 2020. The objective of the Government is that by 2020, it will have built a nation in which pressure on natural resources, particularly on land, water, biomass and biodiversity, has significantly been reduced and the process of environmental pollution and degradation has been reversed; a nation in which the management and protection of these resources and environment are more rational and well regulated in order to preserve and bequeath to future generations the basic wealth necessary for sustainable development.

  3. Library Resource
    National Policies
    March, 2002
    Mali

    Le Plan pour la Gestion Intégrée de la Fertilité des Sols est un instrument à portée nationale qui a pour objectif global l’appui aux producteurs en vue de gérer efficacement la fertilité de leurs terres et de promouvoir des systèmes productifs durables et économiquement rentables.

  4. Library Resource
    National Policies
    January, 2003
    Algeria

    Le Programme d'action national de lutte contre la désertification fixe des modalités d’articulation entre les actions et différents programmes sectoriels mis en œuvre dans le cadre de la lutte contre la désertification et dégager les moyens nécessaires et supplémentaires afin de soutenir la mise en œuvre de ces actions par la recherche d’une synergie et d’une harmonisation que doit induire le processus du PAN.

  5. Library Resource
    National Policies
    January, 2002
    Malawi

    The goal of the National Land Policy in Malawi is to ensure tenure security and equitable access to land, to facilitate the attainment of social harmony and broad based social and economic development through optimum and ecologically balanced use of land and land based resources.A number of specific land policy objectives have to be satisfied in order to achieve the overall goal, particularly: a) Promote tenure reforms that guarantee security and instill confidence and fairness in all land transactions: Guarantee secure tenure and equitable access to land without any gender bias and/or disc

  6. Library Resource
    National Policies
    January, 2003
    Tanzania

    Tanzania Agricultural Sector Policy 2003 is a national cross-sectoral policy with an overall goal to promote sustainable development of the agricultural sector for economic, social and environmental benefits for its people.Improvement of food insecurity and nutrition is amongst the objectives of this strategy.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Switzerland, Chile, Peru, Australia, Jamaica, Bolivia, China, Iran, Russia, Ethiopia, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Tanzania, Ecuador, Argentina, India, United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil

    Statements from FAO's Director-General and the King of Nepal, profiles of mountain issues and activities from countries such as Bolivia, Italy, Kyrgyzstan and Peru, and information on mountain forests, tropical cloud forests and sacred mountains complete Unasylva's foray into the mountains.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Nepal, Kenya, Ecuador, Mexico, Canada

    Une dclaration du Directeur gnral de la FAO et du Roi du Npal, un aperu de certains aspects des montagnes et des activits apparentes entreprises dans des pays comme la Bolivie, l'Italie, le Kirghizistan et le Prou, et des informations sur les forts montagnardes, les forts tropicales de brouillard et les montagnes sacres compltent cette incursion d'Unasylva dans les montagnes.

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