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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2012
    Latin America and the Caribbean, Cuba

    La autora desarrolla un análisis sobre la participación de la mujer cubana en proyectos de desarrollo rural, tomando como referencia diferentes épocas históricas del desarrollo cubano a partir del año 1959, momento del triunfo de la revolución de Fidel Castro. Expone a través de una experiencia en la zona de Holguín desde el 2003, los avances de las mujeres de esta zona dada su participación en un proyecto de desarrollo local con enfoque de género.

  2. Library Resource

    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2012
    Nicaragua, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Chile, Brazil

    Based on theoretical underpinnings and an empirical review of forest laws and regulations of selected countries throughout the Americas, we examine key components of natural forest management and how they are addressed in the legal frameworks of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, and the U.S.

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    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2012
    Honduras

    The REDD Programme is predicated on the assumption that developed countries will provide sufficient funds to offset opportunity costs associated with avoiding deforestation. The role of non-market values in indigenous land management may challenge the efficacy of compensation schemes targeted at meeting opportunity costs as calculated in traditional opportunity cost analysis (OCA). Furthermore it is unclear how these economic incentives might affect social and cultural values linked to land-use norms, livelihoods, and local governance.

  4. Library Resource
    RLGG

    Expondo a Intimidade das Relações de Poder na Agricultura Familiar

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2013
    South America, Brazil
    O artigo analisa a importância que as tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TICs) possuem na vida das mulheres rurais. A análise detém-se nos dados de uma oficina de comunicação que contou com a participação de mulheres, realizada durante a sétima edição da Feira de Economia Solidária do Mercosul realizada em julho de 2011 em Santa Maria-RS.
  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    Argentina

    This paper aim to analyze the role that such a concepts like family, inheritance and property played for developing modern Argentine society. Especially how some principles were broken on, while others have been kept on, as the different legal criteria suggests. Rural Law of 1865, Civil Law of 1869 and juridical debates set the interaction rules among different notion of property rights and also different way for labor hiring, either into market rules or out of them. These kind of relations and their coexistent avoided to expand cattle business in a market way.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    Bolivia

    Esta publicación tiene el objetivo de brindar elementos de análisis sobre la importancia de reconocer el triple rol de la mujer y trabajar, a nivel familiar y comunal, la participación de las mujeres en la toma de decisiones sobre la tierra.

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    the uphill push toward conservation agriculture

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    Southern Asia, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Africa, Western Africa, South-Eastern Asia, Guatemala, Indonesia, China, Nigeria, Yemen

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