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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2019
    Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Chad, Congo, Gabon, Botswana, Lesotho, Benin, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, India, Portugal

    Este estudio es una contribución más en la tarea de realizar un inventario mundial de experiencias nacionales en el campo de la legislación y administración de aguas. Dado su interés en fomentar la producción agrícola, que requiere un mayor uso consultivo del recurso agua, la FAO se ha ocupado siempre de los aspectos institucionales y jurídicos de la gestión del recurso agua.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2019
    Angola, Mozambique, Egypt, Botswana, Malawi, Rwanda, Mauritania, Somalia, Uganda, Mali, Burundi, Italy, Tanzania, Sudan, Congo, Senegal, Chad, Namibia, Niger, Eritrea, Kenya

    The habitat of tsetse fly (Glossina spp.) depends upon climatic conditions, host availability and land cover characteristics. In this paper, the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS), developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is proposed as a tool to harmonize land cover mapping exercises carried out in the context of tsetse and trypanosomiasis (T&T) research and control.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2019
    Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Benin, Nigeria, United States of America, Kenya, Zambia, Somalia, Uganda, Mali, Ethiopia, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana, Ghana, Congo, Senegal, Guinea, Sudan, Cameroon, Central African Republic

    Geospatial datasets and analysis techniques based on geographic information systems (GIS) have become indispensable tools in the planning, implementation and evaluation of a wide range of development programmes, including actions addressing sustainable agriculture and rural development. The growing volume of spatially explicit environmental information, combined with the widening utilization of GIS, allows ecological and socioeconomic factors to be integrated more fully into the decision-making process, thus laying the foundation for a holistic approach to development.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    November, 2018
    Angola, Mozambique, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Italy, Botswana, Eswatini, Ghana, Thailand

    The Guide promotes adapting a convergent and people-centred gender approach towards increasing and improving the provision of goods and services from agriculture, forestry and fisheries in a sustainable manner while reducing rural poverty in different priority areas of FAO’s work. This includes gender equality, territorial development, legal aspects and natural resources management (i.e. pastoralist, forestry, watershed management, climate change and fisheries).

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    July, 2018
    Fiji, Mozambique, Samoa, Guinea-Bissau, Bolivia, Suriname, Costa Rica, Colombia, Liberia, Portugal, Uganda, Botswana, Ecuador, Paraguay, Burkina Faso, Nepal, Australia, Guinea, Indonesia, Kenya, India, Ghana

    Esta guía técnica presenta un análisis de las dimensiones jurídicas de las Directrices voluntarias sobre la gobernanza responsable de la tenencia de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques en el contexto de la seguridad alimentaria nacional y su relación con el derecho internacional vinculante.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    February, 2019
    Rwanda, Liberia, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda, China, Namibia, Botswana, Australia, Jamaica, Ghana, India, Guinea, Colombia, Papua New Guinea, Mongolia

    El Estado y el sector privado requieren la valoración de los derechos de tenencia por una amplia gama de motivos, a menudo fundamentando y sentando las bases de las transacciones, la tributación, la compensación y la contabilidad. Si bien el valor y el proceso de valoración tienen repercusiones jurídicas y económicas directas en nuestra vida cotidiana, suelen estar envueltos en misterio y no se los comprende con claridad.

  7. Library Resource
    January, 2005
    Kenya, Nigeria, Botswana, Zambia, Lesotho, Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Informal systems for land delivery, which have in many cases evolved from earlier customary practices, still account for over half the land supplied for housing in African cities and are a particularly important channel for the poor. This study examines how informal systems of housing land delivery operate in six African cities discussing how they are evolving and how they interact with formal land administration systems.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2003
    Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Botswana, South Africa

    This document reports on a workshop held in South Africa in June 2003 to address continuing insecurity of women's land rights. It brought together a broad group of participants covering NGO, grassroots, government, UN agency staff, researchers, activists, lawyers, and women living with HIV/AIDS.

  9. Library Resource
    January, 2000
    Kenya, Zambia, Lesotho, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Tanzania, Botswana, Eswatini, Malawi, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Examines the relationship of people’s rights in land to the manner in which they may be involved in the management of forests in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho and to a lesser degree Botswana and Swaziland.Includes examination of property relations, state power, land reform, recognition of customary rights, the changing nature of tenure, and the impact of new land law on community forest rights.

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2005
    Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Cape Verde, Comoros, Bahamas, Barbados, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Suriname, Eswatini, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Africa, Caribbean, Oceania

    ‘Poor soils make poor people, and poor people make soils worse’. This is a situation that can be seen in many ACP countries. What information support can be offered...

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