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    Environment and Natural Resource Management Socio-Economic Survey

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2011
    Mongolia, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    Mongolia has very significant natural resources and a large part of the population is dependent on them for their daily living. The impact of the state of the environment on the living standards of herders is obvious, but also Mongolians living in the capital Ulaanbaatar have learned that air pollution, especially in winter, and other environmental problems have a deep impact on their living standards. The Government of the Netherlands has established a Trust Fund at the World Bank to support environmental activities in Mongolia.

  2. Library Resource

    Opportunities and Challenges for a Converging Agenda - Country Examples

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    October, 2011
    Africa, Central Asia, Southern Asia, Europe

    The purpose of this paper is to summarize the challenges and the practical successes that a selected number of countries are experiencing in moving towards 'climate-smart' agriculture while also meeting the food requirements of a growing population, broader economic development and green growth objectives. It complements papers prepared in 2010 on technologies and policy instruments, research, and farmers' perspectives.

  3. Library Resource

    What, Where, and How

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    November, 2011

    Reforestation measures for degraded lands, strategies for the sustainable management of forest resources, and agroforestry practices that incorporate trees into farming systems are increasingly demonstrating their promise for producing commercialized tree products. Although the level of investment so far has remained modest, the challenge is to find ways to scale up promising investments in a way that will have a clear impact at the landscape level.

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Cambodia, Laos

    Environmental degradation can inflict
    serious damage on poor people because their livelihoods
    often depend on natural resource use and their living
    conditions may offer little protection from air, water, and
    soil pollution. At the same time, poverty-constrained
    options may induce the poor to deplete resources and degrade
    the environment at rates that are incompatible with
    long-term sustainability. In such cases, degraded resources

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    The important role of biomass fuels
    today. Timor Leste is a relatively small country located in
    the eastern part of Timor Island with an area of about 1.5
    million ha and an estimated 2007 population of 1.0 million.
    At about US$550 GDP per capita, it is one of the least
    developed countries in the world, with an estimated 40
    percent of the population in poverty. However, the
    development of offshore oil and gas resources in partnership

  6. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Central America, Honduras

    This regional study encompasses three
    Central American countries: Nicaragua, Guatemala, and
    Honduras. The focus of this report is Honduras. The
    objective of the study is to understand how broad-based
    economic growth can be stimulated and sustained in rural
    Central America. The study identifies "drivers" of
    sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction. Drivers are
    defined as the assets and combinations of assets needed by

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    Beyond the City evaluates the
    contribution of rural development and policies to growth,
    poverty alleviation, and environmental degradation in the
    rest of the economy, as well as in the rural space. This
    title brings together new theoretical and empirical
    treatments of the links between rural and national
    development. New findings and are combined with existing
    literature to enhance our understanding of the how rural

  8. Library Resource
    February, 2013

    Forest-sector collaborative arrangements
    come in many forms. The local partner may be a community, an
    association, or a set of individual landholders. The outside
    partner may be a private organization or a government. The
    interest of the local partner may be production of income
    from the forest, security of access to land, increased labor
    or small business opportunities, protection of traditionally
    valued resources, or other values. The interest of the

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    This paper explains how climate change
    may increase future migration, and which risks are
    associated with such migration. It also examines how some of
    this migration may enhance the capacity of communities to
    adapt to climate change. Climate change is likely to result
    in some increase above baseline rates of migration in the
    next 40 years. Most of this migration will occur within
    developing countries. There is little reason to think that

  10. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Colombia

    This country note briefly summarizes
    information relevant to both climate change and agriculture
    in Colombia, with focus on policy developments (including
    action plans and programs) and institutional make-up. Like
    most countries in Latin America, Colombia has submitted one
    national communication to the United Nations Framework
    Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with a second one
    under preparation. Agriculture (including land use change

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