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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2020
    Chile

    Este texto es el resultado de un proceso participativo iniciado por un Comité Técnico Interministerial en 2012 y cuya versión final ha sido aprobada por la Comicivyt, integrado por varios ministerios. Su elaboración contó con una amplia colaboración de representantes de organizaciones campesinas, de la sociedad civil, de la academia, del sector privado, autoridades y funcionarios de los niveles municipal, regional y central, que tuvo como resultado un primer documento de PNDR, firmado por el Presidente Sebastián Piñera Echenique a principios de 2014. Hacia fines de 2018 este contenido fue s

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2006
    Burkina Faso

    Au Burkina Faso, les agricultrices, majoritaires parmi les femmes, doivent se contenter de sols souvent dégradés, de superficies réduites. Les retours de migrants les exposent à des expropriations qui compromettent leurs activités agricoles et menacent l’alimentation familiale. La solution pour s’en sortir : négocier.

  3. Library Resource
    mainstreaming governance - philippines-fao
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    February, 2019
    Philippines

    Land-based sectors in the Philippines are affected by institutional

    weaknesses in various ways, including overlapping and conflicting

    policies, laws and programmes, a lack of reform in public land

    management and inadequate funding for urban development, disaster

    mitigation and climate change. Land governance has thus been given

    paramount importance in recent years. However, security of tenure

    for all remains a challenge as the existing institutional set-up fails

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    November, 2007
    Indonesia

    textabstractThere is a well-known debate about the respective roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot easily be controlled for. The innovation of Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for endogenous institutions and found that this supported their line of reasoning.

  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2015
    South Africa, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Drawing on insights from multiple studies, this policy brief addresses the importance of gender considerations for small-scale livestock farming communities relative to food security in the South African context. The brief examines some key elements of gender issues in relation to small-scale livestock farming, asks how some of these elements align with current policies and practices, and suggests a number of focused policy recommendations. Two thirds of the world’s 600 million poor livestock keepers are rural women.

  6. Library Resource
    Input of the MoL for the ‘Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 formulation Project’
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2019
    Bangladesh

    In an agrarian economy like Bangladesh, the importance of land in the production process need not be overemphasized. Personal possession of land is considered to be a symbol of social prestige and security. Land plays a very important role in both income generation and social life in various ways. In view of the scarcity of land and the future population management, the ministry of land has a very important role to be played in the Delta Plan 2100 formulation project. The input from the ministry of land for the delta plan 2100 formulation project is summed up hereinafter.

  7. Library Resource
    Displacement, De-urbanization, and COVID-19
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2020
    Global

    In the six months since the coronavirus began its global spread, more than 15 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and more than 600,000 have perished, causing governments around the world to institute lockdowns and shut down businesses while entire industries have been devastated.

  8. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2013
    Northern Africa, Tunisia

    This brief is intended to inform government decision makers, agencies and specialist groups involved in rural development and revenue generation activities for communities and women

  9. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2018
    Latvia, Ukraine

    The research studies the issue of ecological stability of rural territories that is the most important component of the national environmental policy of Ukraine. A special attention is paid to degradation of arable lands as the main ecological problem of land management. On the example of Lviv region, the authors calculated the index of ecological nonconformity of current use of arable lands, proving a considerable excess of permissible ploughing of lands in the region.

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