The insufficient supply of serviced land at affordable prices for
the urban poor and the need for regularization of the consequent
illegal occupations in urban areas are two of the most
important issues on the Latin American land policy agenda.
Taking a structural/integrated view on the functioning
of the urban land market in Latin America, this paper discusses
the nexus between the formal and the informal land markets. It
thus exposes the perverse feedback effects that curative regularization
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationDecember, 2000Mexico, Central America, South America
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2000Mexico, Central America
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2001Mexico
Water and watersheds are difficult to separate for management purposes. Providing irrigation as a supplement to rainfall for crop production requires considerable collective action at the watershed level to mobilize labor and other resources, as well as to make decisions and implement the distribution of benefits. Small-scale water harvesting irrigation systems in Mexico have endured for centuries.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2000Mexico, South Africa, Mozambique, China, India, Sri Lanka
Because of increasing water scarcity in developing countries, poor people are suffering greatly from ?water deprivation.? One approach to improving water resources management is to develop river basin management institutions. This paper contrasts government-dominated approaches to forming such institutions with attempts to create stakeholder-based institutions. Two cases of the latter, in Mexico and South Africa, are compared to extract lessons for other countries.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2000Mexico
Como fruto de esta división del trabajo socialmente reconocida y aceptada, las mujeres rurales se enfrentan cotidianamente a un sinnúmero de obstáculos para llevar a cabo las actividades productivas, con miras a asegurar la subsistencia de sus familias. De hecho, barreras de orden jurídico, sociocultural e institucional limitan el acceso de las agricultoras a la tierra, así como su control sobre ella.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2000Mexico, Central America
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2000Kenya, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Guatemala, China, India, Benin, Mexico, Brazil
Feeding cities plus the rising total of poor urban households in developing countries and countries in transition is the challenge facing City and Local Authorities. This guide intends to brief the Mayors, City Executives and Urban Planners, including specialists in food production, market development, public health, environment, forestry and agroforestry, on the compelling need for food supply and distribution policies and programmes. These would lower the cost of accessing food by low-income households in their cities and stimulate private investment.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2000Mexico, Central America
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2000Mexico, Central America
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2000Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus
The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2000 (FRA 2000) provides a comprehensive and up-to-date view of the world's forest resources at the end of the second millennium. It is the result of the collective efforts of the countries of the world. This major undertaking was based primarily on information provided by the countries, supplemented by state-of-the-art technology to verify and analyse the information and to make the results accessible to the world through the Internet. The FRA 2000 process emphasized collaboration and transparency.
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