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 ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2013France, Switzerland, Kenya, Gambia, Mali, Zimbabwe, China, Ghana, Congo, Malawi, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda, Gabon, Tanzania, Vietnam, Africa
Ce numéro de Nature & Faune met le focus sur « La place de la jeunesse africaine dans l’agriculture, les ressources naturelles et le développement rural ». Il compte vingt et un articles contribués par divers auteurs experts dans les secteurs suivants : les politiques, les ONG travaillant dans le domaine de la conservation ; le secteur privé, les groupes de la société civile, la recherche et le milieu universitaire ainsi que les associations de jeunes.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Nepal, Kenya, Ecuador, Mexico, Canada
Une dclaration du Directeur gnral de la FAO et du Roi du Npal, un aperu de certains aspects des montagnes et des activits apparentes entreprises dans des pays comme la Bolivie, l'Italie, le Kirghizistan et le Prou, et des informations sur les forts montagnardes, les forts tropicales de brouillard et les montagnes sacres compltent cette incursion d'Unasylva dans les montagnes.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2004Egypt, Estonia, Honduras, Kenya, Zambia, El Salvador, Chile, Burkina Faso, China, Guyana, Malawi, Costa Rica, Colombia, Nigeria, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Uganda, Argentina, India
Política de Desarrollo Agrícola – Conceptos y Experiencias forma parte de las actividades de la FAO destinadas a generar contextos de política favorables a la agricultura, tanto globales, en el marco de regulaciones y compromisos internacionales, como nacionales, mediante estrategias y políticas adecuadas.
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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 ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Laos, Honduras, Kenya, Uganda, Mali, Zimbabwe, China, Kyrgyzstan, Ghana, India, Sierra Leone, Vietnam
This study uses a livelihoods perspective to facilitate understanding of the role played by seeds and PGRs in rural people’s livelihoods and considers how a livelihood perspective may strengthen understanding of issues of access. A sustainable livelihoods perspective offers a way of thinking about the linkages among vulnerability, poverty and environmental or natural resource management.
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