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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2002
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsApril, 2002Argentina
Este trabajo busca dar cuenta de las complejidades existentes en la articulación de los diferentes aspectos del ambiente urbano, brindar algunos elementos explicativos sobre las criticas condiciones ambientales urbanas, en especial de los sectores pobres, y por ultimo realizar algunas reflexiones a escala regional sobre políticas para mejorar la realidad urbano-ambiental latinoamericana.
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Revista de la CEPAL
Journal Articles & BooksApril, 2002Latin America and the CaribbeanEl propósito de este artículo es mostrar y examinar algunos
aspectos básicos de la situación que viven los pueblos indígenas
y afrodescendientes en América Latina y el Caribe. A través
del análisis de factores como el racismo y la discriminación,
se intenta interpretar las causas que han determinado que
millones de personas de la región,provenientes de diversos
orígenes étnico-raciales,vivan en la pobreza y la marginación.
Para enfrentar esta problemática,se plantea la necesidad de -
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CEPAL Review
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsJune, 2002Syrian Arab Republic, Western Asia
The world is witnessing a period in its history when the increasing socio-political upheavals are taking the lives of thousands, and destroying the natural wealth of our planet. Poverty and food insecurity are two key forces driving this destruction. These ongoing problems compound those already being posed by an increasing shortage of water, scarcity of productive land, an expanding population, and the threat of global warming.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Cambodia
"Logging in Muddy Waters" analyzes the boom in forest exploitation that characterized the 1990s in Cambodia, focusing on the instrumentalization of disorder and violence as a mode of control of forest access and timber-trading channels. The article examines tensions existing between the aspirations of Cambodians for a better life, the power politics of elites, and the hope of some in the international community for a green and democratic peace.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2002India, China, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Oceania
This report argues that land reform, both tenancy reform and redistribution of ceiling surplus lands to the landless, is important to poverty alleviation.The paper argues that in addition to production benefits, land reform helps to change the local political structure by giving more voice to the poor. Re-distributive land reform, whether through market-assisted land reform programmes or otherwise, should remain a substantive policy issue for poverty reduction.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2003Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean
This paper examines the marginalization of women's land rights by governmental institutions and rural women's movements in Brazil.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2003South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper examines the experiences of implementation of land reform policies in the Eastern Cape through a series of case studies.It looks at how attempts at redistribution, restitution and land tenure reform have resulted in a variety of models and approaches.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2003Sub-Saharan Africa
This report is a follow up of a study that was carried out in the year 2001/2 commissioned by the FAO and SARPN. The main objective of the initial study was an assessment of the negative impacts of HIV/AIDS on livelihoods of the affected and infected communities through lowering their agricultural productivity.
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