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    A new era of the global land rush

    Reports & Research
    September, 2016
    Australia, Global, Honduras, India, Mozambique, Peru, Sri Lanka

    Since 2009, Oxfam and others have been raising the alarm about a great global land rush. Millions of hectares of land have been acquired by investors to meet rising demand for food and biofuels, or for speculation. This often happens at the expense of those who need the land most and are best placed to protect it: farmers, pastoralists, forest-dependent people, fisherfolk, and indigenous peoples.

     

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    India

    The idea behind this initial survey is simple: to find out if people in India are worried about their existing property rights or lack of them - whether women or men, owners or tenants, in cities or in villages. The survey results reveal that insecurity of property rights is widespread in India.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    September, 2016
    India

    Snakebites are a crucial, yet underreported issue in many South Asian countries. In India, they kill some 50,000 people every year. However, the government has neglected the issue. Now, it’s time to seriously address this all but forgotten public health problem, our author maintains.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Egypt, United States of America, Chile, Sweden, Germany, China, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Republic of Korea, France, Uruguay, Thailand, New Zealand, Japan, Finland, Malaysia, Italy, India, Russia, Turkey, Brazil, Austria

    This note presents highlights and recent trends in data for each of the main product groups, as well as a short summary of recent changes or improvements in statistics.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Thailand, Japan, India, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, China, Myanmar, Asia

    Myanmar is experiencing a time of great changes, with institutional reforms, market liberalization and democratic processes. A new Constitution was adopted in May 2008. This transition lays the space for great opportunities to reduce poverty and inequalities, and to promote an inclusive pattern of development. Indeed, Myanmar presents a wealth of cultural diversity, skills and natural resources and is strategically positioned between India and the People’s Republic of China. However, it still has high rates of poverty, especially in rural areas.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2016
    Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Philippines, India, Nepal, Azerbaijan, Denmark, France, Germany, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa

    This guide explores the legal dimensions of responsible governance of tenure. It supports the application of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure for Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security at the national level. The guide addresses the legal value of the Guidelines covering the governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests by explaining the concept of legitimacy and reviewing the different stages of legislative processes, from legal assessment and law-making through implementation of legislation to settlement of disputes.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    France, Switzerland, Malawi, Spain, Germany, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Mozambique, Morocco, Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, Cambodia, Czech Republic, Argentina, India, Senegal, Chad, Mongolia, Bhutan, Hungary, Brazil, Netherlands

    Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
    Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA/WG-PGR-8/16/Inf.9
    Session: Sess. 8

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Egypt, Bangladesh, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Chile, France, Denmark, Australia, Bolivia, China, Ethiopia, Pakistan, United States of America, Somalia, Mexico, Tanzania, Netherlands, Argentina, India, Barbados

    The document is a compilation of up-to-date, existing knowledge on groundwater governance, developed by leading international scientists and experts within the framework of the GEF project “Groundwater Governance - A Global Framework of Action”. It covers nine selected themes that focus on different aspects and adopt different angles of view.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Fiji, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Australia, Republic of Korea, Thailand, New Zealand, Nepal, Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, Myanmar, India, Bhutan, Mongolia

    Meeting Name: Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC)
    Meeting symbol/code: FO: APFC/2016/REP
    Session: Sess. 26

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    France, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Mauritius, Canada, Mali, Germany, Indonesia, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Comoros, Cameroon, South Africa, Netherlands, India, Ghana

    Forests are essential to life on our planet, to mitigating and adapting to climate change, ensuring adequate supply of fresh water, enhancing biodiversity and providing sustainable incomes and livelihoods, including food security. But they face unprecedented and unrelenting pressures. This issue includes a broad selection of the best papers submitted to the XIV World Forestry Congress (Durban, September 2015), as well as an overview of the Congress’s ambitious agenda and outcomes.

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