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  1. Library Resource

    Country Environmental Analysis

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    July, 2009
    Timor-Leste, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    The Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) for Timor-Leste identifies environmental priorities through a systematic review of environmental issues in natural resources management and environmental health in the context of the country's economic development and environmental institutions. Lack of data has been the main limitation in presenting a more rigorous analysis. Nevertheless, the report builds on the best available secondary data, presents new data on the country's wealth composition, and derives new results on the costs of water and air pollution.

  2. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Laos

    This report presents policy, market, and
    agriculture transition in the Northern Uplands of Lao
    People's Democratic Republic aims to contribute to such
    a dialogue by providing: (a) a policy-relevant typology of
    the structural characteristics and transition patterns of
    the principal small-holder agriculture systems in the
    Northern Uplands; and (b) recommendations to strengthen
    Government's facilitation of a more sustainable and

  3. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Sudan

    This policy note was prepared in
    response to a request from the Government of Southern Sudan
    (GoSS) for World Bank assistance in developing legislative
    and institutional policies and strategies that will take
    advantage of the potential of the region's forest
    resources to contribute to poverty alleviation, food
    security, sustainable agriculture, economic growth, and to
    protection of forest-related environmental services such as

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    Interest in farmland is rising. And,
    given commodity price volatility, growing human and
    environmental pressures, and worries about food security,
    this interest will increase, especially in the developing
    world. One of the highest development priorities in the
    world must be to improve smallholder agricultural
    productivity, especially in Africa. Smallholder productivity
    is essential for reducing poverty and hunger, and more and

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Mali

    A Benefit-Cost Analysis (BCA) was
    undertaken to assess the returns to land management
    practices of major land use types, namely forests,
    rangelands, and selected crops (rice, maize, cotton, and
    millet). Also the public expenditure on SLM was reviewed
    and an assessment carried out how the expenditure is aligned
    to land policies and how it is targeted to land degradation
    hotspots. The results show that, without some form of

  6. Library Resource
    January, 2014
    Congo

    The Congo Basin represents 70 percent of
    the African continent's forest cover and constitutes a
    large portion of Africa's biodiversity. Agricultural
    development is a central lever to help people out of
    poverty, as well as a key driver of deforestation.
    Forest-friendly agricultural development is a challenge for
    the region. This report describes some ways forest-friendly
    agricultural development can materialize in the Congo Basin.

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