The present paper is a non-academic and thus, hopefully, unpretentious, attempt at reviewing the literature on the the role of local institutions and their interaction in disaster risk mitigation (DRM). What will be found on the following pages is a non-exhaustive compendium of strengths and limitations of local institutions involved in DRM and some suggestions for tapping the former and tackling the latter.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kenya, Mauritania, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Indonesia, Jamaica, China, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Mozambique, Morocco, Philippines, Nicaragua, Cambodia, India, Chad, Mexico, Brazil, Cuba
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2001Kenya, Fiji, Guatemala, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Chile, Zimbabwe, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom, Madagascar, India, Namibia, Thailand
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2015Honduras, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, China, Jamaica, Bolivia, Cuba, Venezuela, Guyana, Costa Rica, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, South America, Caribbean
Meeting symbol/code: FO:LACFC/2015/3
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2015Rwanda, Philippines, Uganda, Sweden, Guatemala, Peru, Cambodia, Republic of Korea, Lebanon, South America, Caribbean
Meeting symbol/code: FO:LACFC/2015/6
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2011El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, Americas
La visión de la FAO consiste en un mundo libre del hambre y de la malnutrición, en el que la agricultura y la alimentación contribuyan a mejorar de forma sostenible, desde el punto de vista económico, social y ambiental, los niveles de vida de todos sus habitantes, especialmente los más pobres. Bajo esta Visión, este documento tiene como objetivo establecer el primer Marco de Programación de País (MPP, antes conocido como Marco Nacional de Prioridades de Mediano Plazo) para la asistencia técnica de la FAO en El Salvador, en apoyo a las prioridades del Gobierno Nacional.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2005Honduras, United States of America, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Denmark, Cuba, Senegal, Malawi, Colombia, Mozambique, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands, South Sudan, Sudan, China, Brazil, Oceania, Africa, Americas
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2015Belize, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, Suriname, Venezuela, Guyana, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, South Africa, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, South America, Caribbean
Meeting symbol/code: FO:LACFC/2015/3
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1998Serbia, France, North Macedonia, Bangladesh, Honduras, United States of America, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Colombia, Kenya, Morocco, Japan, Uganda, Albania, Italy, Tanzania, Ecuador, Tunisia, Senegal, Sudan, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, Americas
This issue of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives includes interesting descriptions of land tenure and related policies in Uganda, Tunisia, the United Republic of Tanzania and Morocco. Two thought-provoking articles on access to land and other assets focus on policies to reduce poverty and the function of markets in the allocation of production resources. In the first, J. Melmed-Sanjak and S.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2011Egypt, Bangladesh, Honduras, Chile, Guatemala, China, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Ghana, Malawi, Pakistan, Colombia, Panama, Nepal, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Albania, Madagascar, Tanzania, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Brazil
This paper explores a 15-country household data base to evaluate the impact of three key assets (land, education and infrastructure) on rural poverty. Using both a descriptive analysis and a quadratic probit model, with the probability of being poor as a function of these three assets, the paper concludes that household access to education and infrastructure are positively associated with higher incomes, while the impact of land holdings varies across countries. Also, this paper shows the importance of the complementarities among assets in their poverty alleviating potential.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchApril, 2009Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru
La crisis financiera internacional afectará de manera directa, aunque diferenciada a los países de América Latina. En esta coyuntura adversa se hace necesario hacer un análisis de cómo el medio rural latinoamericano y en particular los pobres rurales se verán afectados.
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