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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2016
    Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Russia, United States of America

    This study assesses the determinants of forest land allocation to households in the forest tenure reforms in China in the period 1980-2005 using data from three provinces in Southern China; Fujian, Jiang Xi and Yunnan. Furthermore, it assesses the current level of tenure security on forest land and how this tenure security is affected by past and more recent policy changes.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2016
    Australia, Norway

    This paper reports on research conducted for the Indigenous Land Corporation, an Australian government agency concerned with the acquisition and management of lands for indigenous peoples. The paper seeks to identify and analyze the kinds of institutional arrangements that might be deployed to support indigenous communities in the management of indigenous-owned land. It is concerned with a particular planning context in which the role of state agencies is focused on supporting and facilitating the work of indigenous landowners.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Angola, Serbia, Bangladesh, China, Namibia, Australia, Ghana, Congo, India

    Este documento es el resultado final de ese proceso. Dirigido a una audiencia mundial – que comprende las instancias decisorias urbanas, funcionarios públicos, asesores políticos y demás partes interesadas – contribuirá al desarrollo de bosques urbanos y periurbanos que ayuden a las ciudades a resolver sus exigencias actuales y futuras de productos forestales y servicios del ecosistema.

  4. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    May, 2016
    Ukraine, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Africa, Northern America

    It studies the preconditions of creation, functioning of farms in Ukraine and foreign countries. In the course of the study revealed that over the years 1990-2015, the number of farms increased from 332 to 54 302 is 915, 40 thousand hectares of land. For a specified period on one farm had between 12.0 to 78.8 ha of agricultural land (the most notable growth occurred in the period from 1990-1995, he was almost 100 times).
    Despite this, farming did not become efficient producers of agricultural products.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Switzerland, Zambia, Germany, Madagascar, Tanzania, Australia, United Kingdom, Ghana, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Italy, Canada, Netherlands

    تقرّ الخطوط التوجيهية الطوعية بشأن الحوكمة المسؤولة لحيازة الأراضي، ومصايد الأسماك، والغابات، في سياق الأمن الغذائي الوطني بأنّ الاستثمارات المسؤولة التي ينفّذها القطاعان العام والخاص أساسية لتحسين الأمن الغذائي، وتدعو إلى استثمارات تصون مستخدمي الأراضي ومالكيها من خطر نزع ملكيتهم لحقوق الحيازة المشروعة. ويوفّر هذا الدليل الفني توجيهات مفصّلة للسلطات الحكومية المنخرطة في جهود تشجيع الاستثمارات والموافقة عليها ورصدها في جميع مراحل دورة الاستثمار، بشأن الإجراءات التي يمكن اتخاذها لإرساء بيئة مؤاتية للاستثمارات المسؤولة والمستدامة.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    October, 2016
    Angola, Slovenia, United States of America, Spain, China, Australia, United Kingdom, Ghana, Central African Republic, Kenya, Morocco, Colombia, Serbia, Netherlands, Ireland, Canada, Asia, Africa, Americas, Europe

    These guidelines are the result a consultative process that involved a large number of practitioners from both developed and developing countries. Two meetings were held in Glasgow and Delhi and a tentative outline was agreed upon. The guidelines are intended to provide a reference framework for decision makers and planners to adequately plan, design and manage the forest and trees in and around their cities.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    September, 2016
    Estonia, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Australia, Jamaica, Bolivia, Cuba, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Madagascar, Colombia, Ecuador, Netherlands, Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, South America

    La quinua es un ejemplo extraordinario de un cultivo que pasó de ser considerado olvidado a un cultivo de interés y consumo mundial, tanto es así que la Organización de las Naciones Unidas declararon el año 2013 el Año Internacional de la Quinua. Como todo cultivo en expansión, las plagas y enfermedades asociadas a este cultivo se constituyen en un serio factor restrictivo.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    France, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Burundi, Chile, Germany, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Austria, Benin, Thailand, Nigeria, Mexico, Australia, Italy, Netherlands, Argentina, Russia, Armenia, Brazil

    See the <a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-bl813e.pdf"><i>Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management </i></a> adopted by the fourth Global Soil Partnership Plenary Assembly.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Costa Rica, Switzerland, Japan, Samoa, Chile, Australia, Italy, Poland, Canada, Iran, Ethiopia, Namibia, Lebanon

    Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
    Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA-16/17/6
    Session: Sess.16

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