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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Brazil, Italy

    In this issue, we discuss the Global Bioenergy Partnership and the important work it is undertaking - in collaboration with governments and international organizations - to establish sustainability indicators for bioenergy projects. We also report on the Food for the Cities Initiative, an integrative approach to coordinating FAO's activities in urban and peri-urban areas and sharing best practices with other international and civil society organizations. Finally, we introduce the new water report: Climate change, water and food security.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2005
    Fiji, Bangladesh, Nigeria, United States of America, Chile, China, Bolivia, Ghana, Colombia, Philippines, South Africa, United Kingdom, Italy, Tanzania, Netherlands, Argentina, India, Ireland, Brazil, Canada, Asia

    Food systems are being transformed at an unprecedented rate as a result of global economic and social change. Urbanization, foreign direct investment in markets of developing countries and increasing incomes are prime facilitators for the observed changes, while social changes, such as the increased number of women in the workforce and rural to urban migration, provide added stimulus.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2006
    Qatar, Mozambique, Zambia, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Iran, Ethiopia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Nepal, Laos, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, India, Bahrain, Georgia, Cambodia, Asia

    This paper presents the application of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) to forest-poverty linkages and the analysis of the main issues that are raised for the Forestry Outlook study. The LSP Sub-programme on access to natural resources initially intended to begin its work in support of the FOWECA project with a regional desk study. However, with Forest - poverty linkages in West and Central Asia 2 sparse literature available, a decision was made to focus the initial work on Kyrgyzstan given the experience of the Collaborative Forest Management (LSP Working Paper 13).

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2011
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    Countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region were the first in the developing world to go through rapid urbanization. Today, the region is the second most urbanized region in the world. This urbanization process has been accompanied by sharp social contrasts and economic disparities, a buoyant informal housing and land development process and increased local democracy and municipal autonomy, coupled with active social urban movements. This makes the Latin America and Caribbean region a unique landscape in the study of land and housing for the poor. 

  5. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    June, 2010
    Chile

    Los authores del documento intentan reflexionar sobre la importancia de la ciudad intermedia en el Chile de hoy, las tensiones que vive en el contexto de treinta años de transformaciones neoliberales en el país, y los efectos del reciente terremoto del 27 de febrero. Indaga en la relación entre ciudad y política, y en la capacidad actual de esta última para construir proyectos alternativos de desarrollo.

  6. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2008
    Peru, South America

    Perú: Redimensionando la población rural
    Fernando Eguren*
    1 de diciembre de 2008

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