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Highlands and Drylands : Mountains, a source of resilience in arid regions

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
South Africa, Southern Africa, Northern America, Central Asia, Western Asia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
desertification
land restoration
women
Dryland mountains are among the least-known environments in the world, and certainly one of the most overlooked by decision- and policy-makers. Dryland mountains have an outstanding strategic value. They act as water towers for surrounding dry lowland areas, as shown by the examples of the Rocky Mountains of North America, the Central Andes, the mountains of the Mediterranean Basin, the Sahara and Sub-Saharan Africa, West Asia, and Central Asia
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Trade Liberalization: Impacts on African Women

Reports & Research
August, 2001
Mozambique, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Mali, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Western Asia, Western Africa, Global, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
environment
land rights
food security
women
Trade liberalisation processes impact differently on men and women due to the fact that men and women have different roles in production. Despite the fact that women are actively involved in international trade, WTO agreements are gender blind and as such have adverse impacts on women. The General Agreement in Trade and Service (GATS), for instance, provides for a level playing field in service provision between big foreign owned companies and small locally owned companies.
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Regional developments [In 2014-2015 Global food policy report]

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Southern Africa, Central Asia, South America, Africa, Asia, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Southern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, South America, Africa, Asia
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land Conflicts
agricultural and rural legislation
food security
land policies
women
agriculture
research
rural areas
poverty
climate change
environment
fisheries
rural development
youth
water management
land conflicts
farmers
land use
land rights
land tenure
land tenure systems
capacity development
In addition to global developments and food policy changes, 2014 also saw important developments with potentially wide repercussions in individual countries and regions. This chapter offers perspectives on major food policy developments in various regions including Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Using natural areas and empowering women to buffer food security and nutrition from climate shocks: Evidence from Ghana, Zambia, and Bangladesh

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2018
Southern Africa, Western Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, Asia, Africa, Bangladesh, Ghana, Zambia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
environment
climate change
natural disasters
sustainable land management
food security
natural resources management
women
As climate change makes precipitation shocks more common, policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in protecting food systems and nutrition outcomes from the damaging effects of droughts and floods (Wheeler and von Braun, 2013). Increasing the resilience of nutrition and food security outcomes is especially critical throughout agrarian parts of the developing world, where human subsistence and well-being are directly affected by local rainfall.
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Unasylva: Forests, Trees and Disasters

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
United States of America, Dominican Republic, Ukraine, China, Indonesia, Australia, Austria, Guinea, Pakistan, Thailand, Morocco, Philippines, South Africa, Japan, Haiti, India, South Sudan, Sudan
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
forestry
sustainable land management
natural disasters
forest land
women
This double issue of Unasylva aims to tease out the complex interrelationship between forests, trees and disasters, and to examine the ways in which forests and trees can best be managed both to resist shocks and to protect from shocks. Forests and trees can act as natural buffers against disasters and shocks. They have a powerful role to play in protecting against disasters and in reducing their impact. Indeed, the long-term perspective implicit in sustainable forest management is also a valuable approach to planning for disaster risk reduction.
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Manual sobre género en agricultura

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2012
Bangladesh, Honduras, Gambia, El Salvador, Chile, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Vietnam, Ghana, Costa Rica, Niger, Thailand, Palau, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, Nicaragua, Malaysia, Laos, Mexico, Tanzania, Botswana, India, Uganda, Côte d'Ivoire, Africa, Americas, Asia, Oceania
climate change
land governance
women
land tenure
Este Manual es un recurso particularmente oportuno. Combina relatos descriptivos de las experiencias nacionales e internacionales en las inversiones agrícolas con directrices operativas prácticas sobre cómo diseñar estrategias agrícolas para el desarrollo, que capitalicen de manera efectiva las propiedades únicas del crecimiento agrario y el desarrollo rural con la participación de hombres y mujeres como un recurso de alto impacto para la reducción de la pobreza.
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Training for agriculture and rural development

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2000
Bangladesh, Nigeria, Philippines, South Africa, El Salvador, Brazil, Ghana, China, Indonesia, Jamaica, Peru, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Thailand, Honduras, Asia, Americas
environment
farmers
rural population
land use
youth
rural development
women
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Lesotho - Sharing Growth by Reducing Inequality and Vulnerability : Choices for Change A Poverty, Gender, and Social Assessment

March, 2012
Lesotho
Urban Tenure
climate change
farmers
farming systems
food security
land degradation
land distribution
land ownership
land rights
land tenure
poverty
rural areas
rural development
rural population
urban areas
urbanization
women
Lesotho began a structural economic
transformation in the early 1990s. The transformation has
brought higher, more secure incomes to households while the
government succeeded in dramatically improving access to
services such as education, health, water, and
transportation. Yet today, Lesotho faces a number of serious
development challenges, including a high rate of chronic
poverty, entrenched income inequality, and most troubling
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2014-2015 Global food policy report

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Southern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, South America, Africa, Asia
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land Conflicts
agricultural and rural legislation
food security
land policies
women
agriculture
research
rural areas
poverty
climate change
environment
fisheries
rural development
youth
water management
land conflicts
farmers
land use
land rights
land tenure
land tenure systems
capacity development
natural disasters
sustainable land management
This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global, regional, and national levels, and—supported by the latest knowledge and research—explain why. This year’s report is the first to also look forward a year, offering analysis of the potential opportunities and challenges that we will face in achieving food and nutrition security in 2015.
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2012 Annual Report

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Eastern Africa, Western Africa, Southern Africa, Middle Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, Africa, Asia
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Gender
natural resources management
poverty
food security
capacity development
climate change
environment
agriculture
agricultural and rural legislation
land ownership
land rights
women
research
land investments
farmland
land degradation
natural disasters
sustainable land management
farmers
development agencies