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  1. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    Land is the integrating component of all
    livelihoods depending on farm, forest, rangeland, or water
    (rivers, lakes, coastal marine) habitats. Due to varying
    political, social, and economic factors, the heavy use of
    natural resources to supply a rapidly growing global
    population and economy has resulted in the unintended
    mismanagement and degradation of land and ecosystems. This
    book provides strategic focus to the implementation of

  2. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    Increased levels and volatility of food
    prices has led to a surge of interest in large-scale
    agriculture and land acquisition. This creates challenges
    for policy makers aiming to establish a policy environment
    conducive to an agrarian structure to contribute to
    broad-based development in the long term. Based on a
    historical review of episodes of growth of large farms and
    their impact, this paper identifies factors underlying the

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    An extensive review of literature on the
    determinants of adoption and impacts of land management
    technologies in the Ethiopian highlands was undertaken to
    guide policy makers and development agencies in crafting
    programs and policies that can better and more effectively
    address land degradation in Ethiopia. Several
    generalizations emerge from the review: 1) the profitability
    of land management technologies is a very important factor

  4. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Yemen

    The report, Land Tenure for Social and
    Economic Inclusion in Yemen: Issues and Opportunities was
    completed in December 2009. The report addresses the
    problems of land ownership in Yemen and the various social
    and economic problems associated with the system of land
    ownership. Property rights under Yemeni Law are expressed
    both in custom and statute, but both are informed by shari a
    (Islamic law), which provides the basic property categories

  5. Library Resource
    January, 2013

    Much of the rural poor -- who are
    growing in number -- are concentrated in ecologically
    fragile and remote areas. The key ecological scarcity
    problem facing such poor households is a vicious cycle of
    declining livelihoods, increased ecological degradation and
    loss of resource commons, and declining ecosystem services
    on which the poor depend. In addition, developing economies
    with high concentrations of their populations on fragile

  6. 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

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    This is a Regional Program Review (RPR)
    of the World Bank's support for the MBC. The review is
    framed around an assessment of five Global Environment
    Facility (GEF)-financed World Bank implemented projects in
    Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama that had
    the common objective of consolidating the Mesoamerican
    Biological Corridor (MBC). It also reports on the
    achievements of trust fund activities, financed by the Bank

  8. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    This is a Regional Program Review (RPR)
    of the World Bank's support for the MBC. The review is
    framed around an assessment of five Global Environment
    Facility (GEF)-financed World Bank implemented projects in
    Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama that had
    the common objective of consolidating the Mesoamerican
    Biological Corridor (MBC). It also reports on the
    achievements of trust fund activities, financed by the Bank

  9. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    Brazil

    This case study is one of six
    evaluations of the implementation of the World Bank's
    1991 Forest Strategy. This and the other cases (Cameroon,
    China, Costa Rica, India, and Indonesia) complement a review
    of the entire set of lending and nonlending activities of
    the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility.
    The World Bank has clearly diminished its lending presence
    in the Amazon in the past decade. It has moved from the

  10. Library Resource
    August, 2013

    The worldwide concern with deforestation
    of Brazilian Amazonia is motivated not only by the
    irreversible loss of this natural wealth, but also by the
    perception that it is a destructive process in which the
    social and economic gains are smaller than the environmental
    losses. This perception also underlies the diagnosis,
    formulation and evaluation of public policies proposed by
    government and non-governmental organizations working in the

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