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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
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    Mozambique, Zimbabwe

    Twenty-seven nations are classified as ‘water scarce’, a further 16 as ‘water stressed’. This situation, coupled with the fact that many surface and groundwater systems are shared between two or more states, has led governments to develop sustainable water management strategies. This implies a real commitment by all water users – households, farmers, and industrialists – to use available supplies in ways that reap sustainable and equitable benefits for all.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2011
    Mozambique

    As part of its commitment to local community development in Mozambique, the Community Land initiative (iTC), a project financed by a group of European donors, is supporting part of a honey production chain in Mozambique, specifically in Sussundenga district, Manica province. The support consists of building capacity among local honey producers groups.

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    Regulations
    Mozambique, Eastern Africa, Africa

    This Resolution authorizes the request for conversion of provisional authorization into definitive Right of Land Use and Exploitation (DUAT) for the silvo-forestry activities on behalf of the Company Niassa Forests Ltd, concerning an area of 34,227.15 hectares, located in the administrative post of Chimbonila, District of Lichinga, Niassa Province, documented in the cadastral case No. 11764/1250, as the map attached to this Resolution.

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    Regulations
    Mozambique, Eastern Africa, Africa

    This Decree approves the Regulation of Land Act; right of use and conditions for exploiting public lands. It consists of 16 chapters and 2 annexes divided as follows: Definition of different lands and land uses (Chap. 1); Requirements for obtaining land use authorization (2); Competencies of entitled authorities (3); Rights and obligations (4-9); Protection areas (10); Family land exploitation (11); Registration (12-14); Sanctions (15); Final provisions (16). Annexes list model forms for requesting a land use concession.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2016
    Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Seychelles, Tanzania, Congo, Gabon, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Myanmar, Philippines, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka

    Cette publication présente les messages clés de la FAO sur le changement climatique et la sécurité alimentaire. Elle inclut des exemples du travail de la FAO pour aider les pays à s’adapter aux effets du changement climatique sur les secteurs agricoles. Elle rassemble les connaissances de la FAO sur le changement climatique les plus récentes, y compris les instruments et les méthodologies utilisés pour soutenir les engagements et les plans d’actions sur le changement climatique.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2000
    Sudan, Egypt, United States of America, Rwanda, Zambia, Burundi, Namibia, Eswatini, Congo, Djibouti, Malawi, Comoros, Eritrea, Seychelles, Mozambique, Lesotho, Uganda, Somalia, Madagascar, Italy, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, Africa

    This paper discusses – at the sub-basin level – the regional differences and comparative advantages for agricultural development and water resources utilization in the Nile Basin. It looks at options for development, projected in the regional context, and the importance of agricultural water use for social and food security in the different parts of the basin.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    Algeria, Angola, Egypt, United States of America, Ukraine, China, Australia, Canada, Congo, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Thailand, Mozambique, Yemen, Japan, Madagascar, Brazil, Argentina, India, Russia, Sudan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia

    This paper is a re-make of Chapters 1-3 of the Interim Report World Agriculture: towards 2030/2050 (FAO, 2006). In addition, this new paper includes a Chapter 4 on production factors (land, water, yields, fertilizers).

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    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).

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2007
    Nepal, Burkina Faso, Laos, Mozambique, Zambia, Kyrgyzstan, France, Mali, Cambodia, Togo, Africa

    Cette étude a été réalisée au Mali entre le 23/11 et le 16/12/2006 pour le Service des Régimes Fonciers de la F.A.O. dans le cadre de son programme : « Documents normatifs pour une meilleure administration foncière ».

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