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    Drylands Soil: Sustaining Life on Earth cover image
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2010
    Global

    Often, when people think of drylands, they think of deserts and hostile living conditions, economic hardship and water scarcity. But that is not what drylands are all about. If managed well, drylands are often fertile and capable of supporting the habitats, crops and livestock that sustain the entire global population.


  2. Library Resource
    La terre, source de vie: Préserver notre avenir commun cover image
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2011
    Global

    La terre — une ressource vitale pour la population mondiale


  3. Library Resource
    Land for Life: Securing Our Common Future cover image
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2011
    Global

    Land is the foundation for all life-sustaining processes on Earth. Through its physical, chemical, and biological attributes, land underpins a wide range of ecosystem goods and services that humanity depends on for survival.

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    Highlands and Drylands Mountains, a source of resilience in arid regions cover image
    Manuals & Guidelines
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2011
    Global

    Dryland mountains are among the least-known environments in the world, and certainly one of the most overlooked by decision- and policy-makers.


    Dryland mountains have an outstanding strategic value. They act as water towers for surrounding dry lowland areas, as shown by the examples of the Rocky Mountains of North America, the Central Andes, the mountains of the Mediterranean Basin, the Sahara and Sub-Saharan Africa, West Asia, and Central Asia


  5. Library Resource
    Cambio climático y desertificación cover image
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Global

    Esta cita subraya un fenómeno que los agricultures, particularmente los de las áreas secas marginadas, llevan años experimentando: la amenaza de la desertificación y el cambio climático para sus vidas. El secuestro de carbono, sin embargo, tiene una doble utilidad para revertir esta amenaza: en primer lugar, el calentamiento global puede ser mitigado significativamente mediante la eliminación del dióxido de carbono de la atmósfera y su secuestro en el suelo; en segundo lugar, el aumento de carbono en el suelo tiene un gran valor como activo para la producción de alimento.

  6. Library Resource
    Changement climatique et désertification cover image
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Global

    Ce message pessimiste met en évidence un phénomène que les agriculteurs des zones arides marginales connaissent depuis des années, là où la désertification et le changement climatique sont une menace concrète. La séquestration du carbone peut cependant être un moyen de lutte efficace : d’une part, elle permet d'atténuer de façon significative le réchauffement planétaire en transférant dans les sols le CO2 atmosphérique ; d'autre part, le carbone ainsi stocké dans le sol constitue une ressource importante des processus de production alimentaire.

  7. Library Resource
    Climate change and desertification cover image
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2011
    Global

    The message in this short, yet stark sentence highlights a phenomenon that farmers, particularly in marginalized dryland areas, have been experiencing for years – the threat of desertification and climate change to their lives. Carbon sequestration, however, serves a dual purpose to remedy this threat. Firstly, global warming can be mitigated significantly by removing atmospheric carbon dioxide and sequestering it in soil. Secondly, increased carbon in the soil has great value as a food-producing asset.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Mozambique

    The complex relationship between law, land rights and customary practices is increasingly recognized as foundational to formulating successful development policies. Similarly, the essential role of women’s economic participation to development and the current trend of gender discriminatory land and inheritance customary practices have prompted domestic civil society organizations in developing countries to use statutory provisions guaranteeing gender equality to improve women’s land tenure security.

  9. Library Resource

    An investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation

    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Mozambique

    This study examines the statutory recognition of customary land tenure in Botswana, Mozambique and Tanzania, which were chosen as case studies because of the diverse approaches to the issue they represent. Botswana's Tribal Land Act (1968) established a system of regional land boards and transferred the land administration and management powers of customary leaders to the boards, which originally included both customary leaders and state officials among their members.

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