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Library ResourceJanuary, 2011China
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Conference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2010Sri LankaFarmers are in a continuous process of, individually and as community groups, adjusting to the observed variability in climate parameters. Climate shocks are considered by farmers in their decision-making as factors affecting risk and uncertainty, and farmers make their choices so as to minimize such risks. The overall outcome of these individual and community efforts is known as climate adaptation, which itself is a continuous process. Farmers are traditionally supported by local institutions in this process, which are also currently in a state of transformation.
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LegislationDecember, 2010ArgentinaPor medio de la presente Ley se aprueba en la Provincia de Salta el Programa de Regularización Dominial y Asistencia para Pequeños Productores Agropecuarios y Familias Rurales.
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Reports & ResearchOctober, 2010AfricaIncludes the rise of land deals in sub-Saharan Africa; land grabbing and risks for small scale farmers; land grabs: another yoke over women’s land rights?; is land grabbing threatening pastoralism?; opportunity for groups at risk: the African Union’s continental standards on the land question.
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Reports & ResearchTraining Resources & ToolsMarch, 2010Haiti, Latin America and the CaribbeanCoffee is an ecologically and economically significant crop for Haiti. It is not only the main source of income for more than 100,000 farmers, but the coffee ecosystem also sustains a large part of the remaining tree cover (currently at less than 1.5 percent of land) of the country. This report does not aim to detail the structural constraints impacting upon the Haitian coffee sub-sector.
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Leasing on Epi Island, Vanuatu
Reports & ResearchTraining Resources & ToolsSeptember, 2010Vanuatu, Eastern Asia, OceaniaThis study of 23 leases over land on the island of Epi is the first of the Jastis Blong Evriwan (JBE) research activities to examine land and natural resource management (L&NRM) and access to justice on particular Vanuatu islands. The research will be repeated on the island of Tanna. To inform the broader context of land leasing in Vanuatu, JBE, in collaboration with the government of Vanuatu, has begun collecting and analyzing government land-leasing data.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2010
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2010Australia
This paper examines the changing profile of water traders (both allocation and entitlement traders) in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District in Australia, and examines the efficiency of the water allocation and entitlement markets from 1998-99 to 2003-06. The results suggest that the profile of traders in the early and mature stages of the water allocation market differ greatly. In addition, the profile of allocation traders is significantly dissimilar from that of water entitlement traders at all stages of water market development.
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Reports & ResearchNovember, 2010ColombiaAccording to the government agency Acción Social, around six per cent of national territory has been abandoned, while between 3.3 and 4.9 million people have been displaced by conflict and violence in Colombia. Roughly half of the internally displaced families owned or occupied land before their displacement. Almost all of them have lost it as a result.
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