Land Tenure Working Paper 21. This paper draws on proceedings of a meeting held to discuss the impact of growing private sector investments in land, fisheries and forests. This meeting, aimed at the private sector, took place at FAO headquarters on 28 February and 1 March 2011. The purpose of this paper is to provide a record of the discussion from the private sector perspective. The first section provides the context which led to the workshop concept.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2011Qatar, Burkina Faso, Mali, Ukraine, China, Australia, Ghana, Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, Malaysia, Brazil, India, Sudan, Saudi Arabia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 2016Ethiopia, 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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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2010Angola, Qatar, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Mali, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Niger, Rwanda, Liberia, South Africa, Madagascar, Tanzania, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Africa
Access to arable productive land in African has been in decline due to the pressure of growing population trends and worsening land degradation as a result of climate change. Recent high profile land purchases covering thousand of hectares of prime agricultural land have raised concerns over equitable land access. Major expansions in regional land markets have increased investor interest in land acquisitions. Perceptions of land availability and competitive land prices have driven demand for prime agriculture land.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2015Egypt, Bangladesh, Nepal, Zambia, Ghana, Germany, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Ethiopia, Niger, Cameroon, Thailand, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Syrian Arab Republic, Cambodia, India, Sudan, Kenya
Based on a broad literature review, this publication discusses rural women’s time poverty in agriculture, elaborates on its possible causes and implications and provides insight into the various types of constraints that affect the adoption of solutions for reducing work burden. This paper raises questions about the adequacy of women’s access to technologies, services and infrastructure and about the control women have over their time, given their major contributions to agriculture.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016France, 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
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2011Bangladesh, Switzerland, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Greece, Guinea, Pakistan, Thailand, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam, Madagascar, Italy, Netherlands, India, Asia
Tigerpaper is a quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and natural resources management for the Asia-Pacific region. Forest News is a quarterly bulletin reporting on FAO forestry activities in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2001Mozambique, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Mali, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Tanzania, South Africa, Ghana, Malawi, Mexico, Brazil, Africa, Americas
In November 2000, the World Bank (WB) and the Brazilian Federation for Direct Planting into Crop Residue (FEBRAPDP) organized the third Study Tour on “Producer-Led Rural Organizations for Sustainable Land Management” (PRO-SLM), with particular emphasis on notillage systems (NT).1 The Study Tour followed a 10-day itinerary of over 1,000 km through Southern Brazil, covering Paraná and Santa Catarina States, two states which received WB support through land and micro-watershed management projects.</p> This Paper presents the salient features of NT development in Southern Brazil and discu
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016Burkina Faso, Benin, Nigeria, Nepal, Zambia, Albania, Venezuela, Guinea, Malawi, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Uganda, Moldova, Somalia, Madagascar, Ecuador, Senegal, Chad, Georgia, Armenia, Kenya
Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA-16/17/16
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2007Timor-Leste, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Philippines, South Africa, Uganda, Guatemala, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Tanzania, Mexico, Kenya
Ce manuel de formation souligne la façon de gérer et de résoudre les conflits concernant les droits relatifs au régime foncier, la sécurité foncière et l’accès à la terre dans le domaine du développement rural. Il a pour origine des activités complémentaires entreprises sous l’égide du Programme de soutien aux moyens d’existence de la FAO de l’Unité de la gestion des terres et des régimes fonciers et de la Coalition internationale pour l’accès à la terre.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2012Angola, Mozambique, Honduras, Chile, Australia, Guinea-Bissau, Ecuador, India, Guyana, Costa Rica, Colombia
El objetivo de este documento es seguir enriqueciendo un diálogo sobre las cuestiones relativas a la tierra (y a los territorios) entre la FAO y los países miembros, los pueblos indígenas, el Foro Permanente y otras entidades interesadas. En el documento se detallan. principios básicos de un enfoque metodológico para el reconocimiento territorial, así como para un desarrollo de esos espacios a partir de la constatación de que el simple reconocimiento jurídico en muchos casos no es garantía suficiente para el mejoramiento de las condiciones de los pueblos indígenas.
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