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European Regional Assessment for the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and other Natural Resources

Manuals & Guidelines
January, 1970
Georgia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, United Kingdom, Croatia, Italy, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland
VGGT
land
property
assessment
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and other development partners are working together with countries to prepare Voluntary Guidelines that will provide practical guidance to states, civil society, the private sector, donors and development specialists on the responsible governance of tenure. By setting out principles and internationally accepted standards for responsible practices, the Voluntary Guidelines will provide a framework and point of reference that stakeholders can use when developing their own policies and actions.

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Réforme Agraire: Colonisation et coopératives agricoles 2002/2

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2002
Switzerland, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Bolivia, Guinea, Costa Rica, Niger, Mozambique, Philippines, South Africa, Nicaragua, Italy, Ecuador, Norway, Sudan, Mexico, Brazil, Asia, Africa, Americas
property rights
land governance
collective ownership
land tenure
land access
private ownership
common property
land reform
land ownership
The management of conflict over land and natural resources is a very broad issue and there is a growing literature on techniques that have potential for use in this field. At the moment, the Land Tenure Service of FAO’s Rural Development Division is working towards achieving a deeper understanding of the current methods and practices in land conflict management and is gathering cases from all over the world to ascertain the techniques used and the results achieved. This edition of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, prepared with the strong support of Ms A.
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Le pluralisme et la foresterie et le développement rural durables

Reports & Research
December, 1999
Slovenia, France, Switzerland, United States of America, Zambia, Mali, Sweden, Germany, Indonesia, Bolivia, Austria, Finland, New Zealand, Japan, Turkey, Philippines, Italy, India, Sudan, Uganda, Norway
natural resources management
rural development
These proceedings reflect the broad range of disciplines, institutions and geographical regions represented at the workshop. The proceedings will hopefully provide insight for governments, NGOs, the private sector, local organisations and other actors on how to manage and participate in pluralistic forestry systems in order to further the goals of sustainable forestry for development.
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Review of the Programme of Work on Climate Change and Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Nepal, France, Kenya, Gambia, Uganda, Philippines, Sweden, Germany, Guatemala, Poland, Thailand, Italy, Uruguay, Norway
climate change
natural resources management
Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA-16/17/8
Session: Sess.16
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Regional Reviews and National Management Reports - Fourth Workshop on the Assessment and Management of Shrimp and Groundfish Fisheries on the Brazil-Guianas Shelf, Cumaná, Venezuela, 2-13 October 2000

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2001
Brazil, Spain, Italy, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Venezuela, Guyana, Norway, Americas
fisheries
natural resources management
This document assembles three reviews of the marine shrimp and groundfish fisheries of the Brazil-Guianas shelf (northern Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and eastern Venezuela) and one on environmental aspects of the area. The resources reviews are based on technical reports prepared prior to and during the Workshop in Cumaná, Venezuela and during previous meetings of the stock assessment experts of the WECAFC Ad Hoc Working Group on Shrimp and Groundfish Resources in the Brazil-Guianas Shelf.
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Geographic Information Systems to support the ecosystem approach to fisheries: status, opportunities and challenges

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2009
Angola, France, Mauritius, Germany, Namibia, Indonesia, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, United States of America, Japan, South Africa, Malaysia, Italy, Papua New Guinea, Norway
The ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) has been developed over the last decade in response to perceived and actual deficiencies in previous methods of management. The EAF recognizes that fish are only one albeit important part of a much wider ecosystem incorporating an array of physical and biological components that humans interact with and exploit.
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Children's Property and Inheritance Rights in the Context of HIV and AIDS

Reports & Research
December, 2007
Angola, Rwanda, Zambia, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Eswatini, Congo, Malawi, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda, Somalia, Eritrea, Tanzania, Botswana, Norway, Kenya, Africa
private ownership
land governance
property rights
land ownership
land tenure
The present paper – the third in the HIV/AIDS Programme Working Paper Series – is based on field research conducted by two grassroots organizations – CINDI-Kitwe in Zambia and GROOTS Kenya in Kenya to map out and document cases of property grabbing from children, in particular those who became orphans due to AIDS. It is intended to explore methods which grassroots organizations use or can use to document their work.
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Monitoring the implementation of the Second Global Plan of Action and preparing the Third Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Reports & Research
December, 2016
France, Switzerland, United States of America, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Canada, Norway, Netherlands
natural resources management
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-8/16/4
Session: Sess. 8
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Fisheries and the right to food

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Fiji, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Germany, Sri Lanka, Norway, Iceland, Namibia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Japan, Italy, Netherlands, India, Maldives, Gabon, Papua New Guinea
land governance
food security
land tenure
agricultural and rural legislation
This study provides an introduction to the right to food and human rights principles in international law, explores the relationship between international fisheries instruments and the right to food and seeks to identify components that are considered important for the implementation of the right to food in fisheries legislation.
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Special topic: Forest Resource Assessment Report of the meeting of the team of specialists on temperate and boreal forest resources assessment 2000 (Item 7 of the Provisional Agenda)

Reports & Research
December, 2000
France, Estonia, Switzerland, Lithuania, Chile, Sweden, Germany, China, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Finland, Japan, Hungary, Austria, Portugal, Poland, Netherlands, Russia, Czech Republic, Mexico, Norway, Mongolia
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
Meeting symbol/code: EFC 00 5-Add.1