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  1. Library Resource
    Planning For Inclusive Greater Banjul
    Reports & Research
    December, 2020
    Gambia

    The Gambia has one of the fastest urbanization rates in sub-Saharan Africa, with more than two-thirds of the country’s population currently living in the Greater Banjul Area (GBA).

    To address the environmental and socioeconomic challenges that arise from this situation, UNOPS is supporting The Gambia’s government to develop a strategic urban plan, through the Greater Banjul 2040 project. The initiative, will drive urban development and improve services while promoting climate resilience, economic growth and social inclusion.

  2. Library Resource

    Transparency of Land-based Investments: Cameroon Country Snapshot

    Reports & Research
    March, 2021
    Cameroon

    New research by CCSI and the Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement (CED) on transparency of land-based investment in Cameroon. 


    In the report, CCSI and CED find that:


    • Communities continue to be excluded from decision-making around investments.
    • The government pursues a top-down approach to concession allocation and remains reluctant to recognize all legitimate tenure rights.
  3. Library Resource
    economic smallholders - FAO

    An analysis based on household data from nine countries

    Reports & Research
    March, 2015
    Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Albania

    About two-thirds of the developing world’s 3 billion rural people live in about 475 million small farm households, working on land plots smaller than 2 hectares. 1 Many are poor and food insecure and have limited access to markets and services. Their choices are constrained, but they farm their land and produce food for a substantial proportion of the world’s population. Besides farming they have multiple economic activities, often in the informal economy, to contribute towards their small incomes.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2008
    Benin

    Collective actions groups have many advantages and are sometimes essential, yet they can reinforce or perpetuate inter-and intra-gender inequalities when their functioning is left entirely subject to internal community dynamics and they are not well managed. This is well illustrated by the case of Koussin-Lélé rice scheme in the central Benin.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1998
    Burkina Faso

    Chapter 2 situates the scene by presenting the historical background to the research area. First, a brief outline of the research village's history is provided. The main part of the chapter is devoted to the elaboration of case material relating to a number of conflicts over land, along the border between the kingdom of Ratenga and the kombere of Piugtenga and in which the village of Ziinoogo has been involved.

  6. Library Resource
     Droits de propriété foncière des communautés locales et populations autochtones en République du Congo

    Instruments de droit international et législation nationale applicables en République du Congo

    Reports & Research
    July, 2020
    Congo

    Ce rapport présente et analyse les dispositions internationales et nationales encadrant les droits de propriété foncière des communautés locales et populations autochtones en République du Congo.

    Il s'agit d'un document à but éducatif visant à améliorer l'accès et la compréhension des lois congolaises.

  7. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    September, 1965
    Africa, Eastern Africa

    La sous- région da l'Afrique de l’est couvre une superficie total a de

    quelque-5,5 millions de kilomètres carres, soit environ 18 pour 100 de la superficie du continent. Située approximativement entre 13° de latitude nord et 25° de latitude sud, elle est limitée a l’ouest par le Soudan, le Congo et l'Angola et au sud par le Mozambique et l'Afrique du Sud.

  8. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    September, 1965
    Africa, Eastern Africa

    This paper focuses on East Africa: development trends and problems. The East African sub-region onglobes a total area of about 5.5 million kilometers or about 18 percent of the continent’s area.

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