Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and agricultural decollectivisation, post-socialist rural contexts have afforded commons scholars particularly fertile ground for examination of institutional change and evolution under new modes of governance. In Mongolia, as elsewhere, such transformations have been characterised by the erosion of state influence and de jure and/or de facto devolution of land and resource rights.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsJuly, 2008Mongolia
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2008Spain
The Spanish law Real Decreto 1469/2007 about the regulations of quality of Iberian pig meat, establishes limitations to the carrying capacity of Iberian pig in the dehesa (open oak parkland) and forces to the regional governments to make a programs of evaluation of acorn production at the beginning of each campaign, that will have to be based on agronomical, environmental, and topographical criteria, identifying each paddocks through SIGPAC.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2008Ghana, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsNovember, 2008Eastern Africa, Africa
Livestock keeping in the Nile Basin contributes greatly to human security, income, culture and agricultural gross domestic product (GDP). Inappropriate livestock management uses excessive water and causes water and land degradation. Livestock-water interactions are complex, not well understood, and often ignored in agricultural water development. This results in lost opportunities to achieve sustainable and higher investment returns. Typically, livestock management also ignores important livestock-water issues.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2008
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2008
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2008Colombia, Central America, South America
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsJune, 2008Africa, Eastern Africa
Livestock are recognized as essential assets for the livelihoods of poor farmers in the mixed crop-livestock systems throughout the tropics, while feed resources have been identified as an important constraint to their productivity. Two international agricultural research institutes, CIMMYT and ILRI, therefore joined forces in a project designed to improve the value of maize as livestock feed with an aim of enhancing the livelihoods of maize-livestock farmers in East-Africa.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2008
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2008
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