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The economic lives of smallholder farmers

An analysis based on household data from nine countries

Reports & Research
March, 2015
Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Albania
Land & Food Security
sustainable development
land-use planning
rural areas
land use
smallholders
rural population
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.
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Mainstreaming Gender into Forest Policies in Asia and the Pacific

Reports & Research
March, 2015
South-Eastern Asia
Land & Gender
gender equity
This report was developed as a part of the regional initiative, ‘Mainstreaming gender into forest policies of developing Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC) member countries,’ funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAO-RAP). The report tries to understand how gender perspectives are being integrated in the forest policies of eight APFC member countries.
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Forest landscape restoration for Asia-Pacific forests

Reports & Research
January, 2016
Asia
Forest Landscape Restoration
climate change
environment
forest conservation
forest land
forest management plans
land governance
The Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) approach, which is still in its nascent stages of development, is rapidly gaining attention as a more appropriate way to restore both degraded forests as well as the surrounding degraded landscape. The great value of this approach is that it integrates forest restoration actions with the desirable objectives of the landscape, and it is undertaken with the full participation of the people who will have a role in the management of the restored areas over the longer term.
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Myanmar: Land Tenure Issues and the Impact on Rural Development

Reports & Research
April, 2015
Myanmar
land governance
land policies
customary law
customary tenure
land grabbing
land use
tenure security
land administration
land tenure
land law
land tenure systems
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
"Myanmar’s agricultural sector has for long suffered due to multiplicity of laws and regulations, deficient and degraded infrastructure, poor policies and planning, a chronic lack of credit, and an absence of tenure security for cultivators. These woes negate Myanmar’s bountiful natural endowments and immense agricultural potential, pushing its rural populace towards dire poverty.
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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 - Myanmar

Reports & Research
August, 2015
Myanmar
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
deforestation
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Report preparation and contact persons:
1 What is the area of forest and other wooded land and how has it changed over time?
2 What is the area of natural and planted forest and how has it changed over time?
3 What are the stocks and growth rates of the forests and how have they changed?
4 What is the status of forest production and how has it changed over time?
5 How much forest area is managed for protection of soil and water and ecosystem services?
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Impacts des investissements étrangers dans l'agriculture des pays en développement: résultats d'études de cas

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Mozambique, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Philippines, Mali, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Ghana, Congo, Sudan, Niger
land rights
sustainable development
De plus en plus d’éléments tendent à démontrer que l’investissement dans le secteur agricole des pays en développement est l’un des moyens les plus efficaces pour réduire la pauvreté et la faim. Les investissements agricoles peuvent produire des avantages très divers en faveur du développement. On ne peut cependant pas s’attendre à ce que ces avantages se produisent automatiquement, et certaines formes d’investissement à grande échelle comportent des risques pour les pays hôtes.
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Tenure & Fishing Rights 2015: A global forum on rights-based approaches for fisheries

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Kenya, Marshall Islands, Pakistan, Nauru, Uganda, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Iceland, Sierra Leone, Costa Rica, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Norway, Cambodia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Indigenous Peoples
indigenous people's tenure
land tenure systems
customary tenure
land tenure
Session: Tenure & Fishing Rights 2015
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Evaluando la gobernanza forestal

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Serbia, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Zambia, Uganda, Guatemala, Denmark, Tanzania, Ecuador, Ghana, Congo, Malawi, Paraguay, Indonesia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
land governance
land tenure
forest land
forest conservation
Esta es una guía para medir o evaluar la gobernanza forestal. La gobernanza forestal comprende todos los sistemas sociales y económicos que afectan la forma en que las personas interactúan con los bosques, incluyendo las burocracias, leyes, politicas, normas y culturas tradicionales, patrones de tenencia de la tierra y mercados.
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Informe sobre los Progresos en la Aplicación De Decisiones Anteriores

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Bolivia, Chile, China, Paraguay
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
forest land
Meeting Name: North American Forest Commission
Meeting symbol/code: FO:NAFC/2016/4
Session: Sess. 28
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Progress in Silva Mediterranea and the Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds. European Forestry Commission meeting

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Algeria, France, Morocco, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Tunisia, Finland, Lebanon, Europe
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
forest land
Meeting Name: European Forestry Commission
Meeting symbol/code: FO:EFC/2015/14 - ECE/TIM/2015/14
Session: Sess.38 - Sess.73