This paper explores household variation in land tenure security and drought shocks across villages to investigate the extent to which land tenure systems matter in households’ capacity to cope with adverse impacts of weather shocks for agricultural dependent households in rural Malawi. Our findings reveal that land tenure security cushions the effects of drought regimes on food security. Further, we establish access to credit facilities for farm investment purposes as the underlying channel that mediates the impact of drought shocks on food insecurity.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksMay, 2002Africa, Malawi
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Global
The remit of this paper is to identify and examine “success” stories in combating desertification.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2002Netherlands
Het Nederlandse cultuurlandschap is van oudsher vorm gegeven door bedrijvigheid, en dan vooral de landbouw, maar deze boet langzaam aan belang in. Het buitengebied zou zich kunnen ontwikkelen als consumptieruimte (voor wonen, recreatie en dergelijke), maar het is ook goed denkbaar dat andere ruimtevragende bedrijvigheid het landelijk gebied binnentrekt en het aangezicht gaat bepalen. Binnen dit onderzoek is gekeken naar de activiteiten die buiten de 'bebouwde kom' in het landelijk gebied plaatsvinden, langs drie verbindingswegen.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Mongolia
Mongolia’s forests are located in the transitional zone between the great Siberian taiga and the Mongolian plateau of grassland steppe. These forests play a critical role in preventing soil erosion and land degradation, in regulating the water regime in mountain areas, maintaining permafrost distribution, and in providing habitats for wildlife and preserving biodiversity.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2003South America, Brazil
Neste estudo multidisciplinar aproveitou-se os trabalhos de manejo e conservação dos solos e da água em microbacias hidrográ ficas, que foram realizados no estado do Paraná , no ú ltimo quartel do sé culo XX, para avaliar se o preç o da terra é sensí vel à s melhorias ambientais. Avaliou-se, atravé s de mé todos economé tricos, o Programa Paraná Rural, em trê s faixas de prioridades na sua forma de aç ã o: alta, mé dia e baixa prioridade. A partir dessas diferenç as, na aplicaç ã o do Programa, esta pesquisa revelou existir relaç ã o positiva entre o mercado de terras e o meio ambiente.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2002
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Library ResourceNational PoliciesJuly, 2002Spain
El Plan Forestal Español es un instrumento estratégico de alcance nacional cuyo objeto es estructurar las acciones necesarias para el desarrollo de una política forestal española basada en los siguientes principios: a) desarrollo sostenible (mediante la ordenación de los montes y el impulso de la selvicultura, según directrices que recojan los criterios e indicadores paneuropeos para la gestión sostenible de los ecosistemas forestales); b) multifuncionalidad de los montes; c) contribución a la cohesión territorial a través del desarrollo rural, fijando población y empleo, mejorando el entor
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Library ResourceNational PoliciesJanuary, 2003Rwanda
The protection and management of environment are among the pillars of Vision 2020. The objective of the Government is that by 2020, it will have built a nation in which pressure on natural resources, particularly on land, water, biomass and biodiversity, has significantly been reduced and the process of environmental pollution and degradation has been reversed; a nation in which the management and protection of these resources and environment are more rational and well regulated in order to preserve and bequeath to future generations the basic wealth necessary for sustainable development.
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Library ResourceLegislationJuly, 2002Lebanon
This Law is composed of 7 Parts divided into 68 articles. Part I deals with fundamental principles and general provisions. Part II provides for regulating the environment protection especially the following matters: environmental planning; Environment National Council; financing environment protection through the establishment of a national environmental fund; and the mechanism of environmental pollution control. Part III refers to the Environment Information System and the participation in environment management and protection. Part IV relates to the Environmental Impact Assessment.
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Library ResourceRegulationsMarch, 2002Chile
El presente Decreto tiene por objeto la norma de emisión que determina las concentraciones máximas de contaminantes permitidas en los residuos líquidos descargados por la fuente emisora, a través del suelo, a las zonas saturadas de los acuíferos, mediante obras destinadas a infiltrarlo. El objetivo perseguido consiste en prevenir la contaminación de las aguas subterráneas.
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