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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2011
    South Africa, Southern Africa, Northern America, Central Asia, Western Asia

    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

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2005
    Rwanda, Laos, Kenya, South Africa, Vietnam, Sweden, Zimbabwe, China, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada, India

    Это руководство по гендерным вопросам и доступа к земле, был подготовлен для поддержки земельных администраторов в правительств и их партнерами в гражданском обществе, которые участвуют в обеспечении доступа земель и управления земельными ресурсами  вопросы развития сельских районов. Часто бывает так, что гендерные вопросы опущены или неправильно в таких ситуациях, часто с отрицательными результатами.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    United States of America, Dominican Republic, Ukraine, China, Indonesia, Australia, Austria, Guinea, Pakistan, Thailand, Morocco, Philippines, South Africa, Japan, Haiti, India, South Sudan, Sudan

    This double issue of Unasylva aims to tease out the complex interrelationship between forests, trees and disasters, and to examine the ways in which forests and trees can best be managed both to resist shocks and to protect from shocks. Forests and trees can act as natural buffers against disasters and shocks. They have a powerful role to play in protecting against disasters and in reducing their impact. Indeed, the long-term perspective implicit in sustainable forest management is also a valuable approach to planning for disaster risk reduction.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Rwanda, Laos, Kenya, South Africa, Gambia, Vietnam, Sweden, Zimbabwe, China, Italy, Canada, India

    This guide on Gender and access to land has been prepared to support land administrators in governments and their counterparts in civil society who are involved in land access and land administration questions in rural development. It is frequently the case that gender issues are left out or misunderstood in such situations, often with negative results. This guide is designed to show where and why gender inclusion is important in projects and programmes that aim at improving land tenure and land administration arrangements.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2003
    Rwanda, Laos, Kenya, South Africa, Vietnam, Sweden, Zimbabwe, China, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada

    Le présent manuel sur La parité hommes-femmes et l'accès à la terre a été rédigé pour aider les administrateurs fonciers dans les gouvernements et leurs homologues dans la société civile jouant un rôle dans l'accès à la terre et dans l'administration foncière dans le cadre du développement rural. Les questions de parité hommes-femmes sont fréquemment omises ou sous-estimées et cela a souvent des répercussions négatives.

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