Search results | Land Portal

Search results

Showing items 1 through 9 of 21.
  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2008
    Dominican Republic, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean

    This study on Latin America is based on a sample of eight countries, comprising the big four economies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; Colombia and Ecuador, two of the poorest South American tropical countries; the Dominican Republic, the largest Caribbean economy; and Nicaragua, the poorest country in Central America. Together, in 2000-04, these countries accounted for 78 percent of the region's population, 80 percent of the region's agricultural value added, and 84 percent of the total gross domestic product (GDP) of Latin America.

  2. Library Resource
    Securing Forest Tenure Rights for Rural Development: Lessons from Six Countries in Latin America cover image
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2017
    Latin America and the Caribbean, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Argentina, Colombia, Peru

    Secure land tenure in rural landscapes is widely recognized as an essential foundation for achieving a range of economic development goals. However, forest areas in low and middle-income countries face particular challenges in strengthening the security of land and resource tenure. Forest peoples are often among the poorest and most politically marginalized communities in their national contexts, and their tenure systems are often based on customary, collective rights that have insufficient formal legal protection.

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Colombia

    The book intends to trigger, and support
    policy debate in Colombia. The first part distills four
    thematic chapters, responsive to the country's current
    realities, as well as to the five decades of development
    partnership with the Bank, spanning the entire development
    spectrum. First, violence, sustainable peace, and
    development introduces the reader to the source of violence
    - armed, and social conflicts, and drug trade prevalent in

  4. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    Colombia

    The purpose of this study is to assess
    agriculture's competitiveness in Colombia. During the
    past 12 years, Colombia's agricultural sector has
    performed poorly, resulting in the continuation of extensive
    rural poverty. Improving the sector's competitiveness
    is the only sure and lasting way to improve its growth
    performance and reduce poverty. Thus, the main objectives of
    this study are to assess: (a) the sector's current and

  5. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Colombia

    This document presents the recently
    elected Colombian administration with a set of policy notes
    meant to enrich the debate around critical issues affecting
    the country's development. These notes build mostly
    upon existing research and represent the Bank's
    independent view on topics which are either at the crux of
    ongoing policy discussions or merit a more prominent place
    in this dialogue. This window of opportunity provides a very

  6. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Colombia

    The analysis of the cost of
    environmental degradation conducted as part of the country
    environmental analysis (CEA) shows that the most costly
    problems associated with environmental degradation are urban
    and indoor air pollution; inadequate water supply,
    sanitation, and hygiene; natural disasters (such as flooding
    and landslides); and land degradation. The burden of these
    costs falls most heavily on vulnerable segments of the

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Colombia

    This concept note presents the strategic
    engagement of the World Bank in the areas of public sector
    management and governance in Colombia. It describes the
    short and medium term approach through which the Bank will
    provide support to the country on those areas of reform, as
    well as their links and synergies with other sectors
    activities. It also provides a summary of the Bank's
    public sector management and governance recent activities

  8. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Colombia

    This country note briefly summarizes
    information relevant to both climate change and agriculture
    in Colombia, with focus on policy developments (including
    action plans and programs) and institutional make-up. Like
    most countries in Latin America, Colombia has submitted one
    national communication to the United Nations Framework
    Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with a second one
    under preparation. Agriculture (including land use change

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Colombia

    This report is intended to support the
    analysis and implementation of reforms aimed at a
    strengthening of the intergovernmental system in Colombia.
    In mid-2007 congress approved a legislative act as
    constitutional amendment that increases the level of the
    main transfer to sub-national governments, the General
    System of Transfers (SGP). However an adjustment of the
    regulations and institutional arrangements within the

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Colombia

    During the past several months, the
    Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development
    of Colombia has been researching potential indicators that
    would be useful to assess and possibly adopt among which
    included the ecological footprint. This work was
    commissioned in order to provide the Ministry with a deeper
    understanding of the ecological footprint and to train a
    number of its staff on the scope of the footprint in order

Land Library Search

Through our robust search engine, you can search for any item of the over 64,800 highly curated resources in the Land Library. 

If you would like to find an overview of what is possible, feel free to peruse the Search Guide


Share this page