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  1. Library Resource
    USAID

    FUNÇÕES E RESPONSABILIDADES: LIÇÕES APRENDIDAS NA ALBÂNIA, MOÇAMBIQUE, RUANDA E TAILÂNDIA

    Reports & Research
    October, 2005
    Timor-Leste

    Este relatório representa uma actividade do Programa de Legislação de Terras (LLPII) de Timor-Leste da United States Agency for International Development (USAID), que exige um estudo comparativo da organização, jurisdição e coordenação das instituições governamentais que se ocupam das questões da terra.

  2. Library Resource

    Whatever You Thought, Think Again

    Conference Papers & Reports
    September, 2005
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, congratulated the editorial team of National Geographic for the special issue on Africa. National Geographic has played a unique role in broadening the knowledge of the world. The World Bank partnered with National Geographic to produce a full-color wall map to raise awareness of the millennium development goals (MDGs) and to highlight each country's progress. We often hear about an Africa that is ravaged by poverty, disease and conflict. There is another face to Africa, one of hope, ambition, energy, intelligence and achievement.

  3. Library Resource
    October, 2005
    Bulgaria

    The area of arable land in Bulgaria continually decreases. Agricultural land is divided into 10 categories on the basis of soil quality and characteristics and into 8 classes on the basis of erosion degree. An increase of contaminated land has been observed. The most serious problem is water erosion as it affects 80% of the total arable land. On the contrary, the use of fertilizers and pesticides has decreased in recent years. Priority measures of the governmental policy have found place in the National Agriculture and Rural Development Plan over the 2000-2006 period.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    October, 2005
    United States of America, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Bolivia, Canada, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Cuba

    El marco político para la gestión forestal es un proceso dinámico de renovación e innovación. Nuevas actitudes públicas hacia el bosque y el desarrollo forestal y nuevos actores políticos presionan por un mayor énfasis en la importancia ambiental y social y por más participación en las decisiones de gestión. El desarrollo sostenible es el principio global de la silvicultura. Políticas transversales y redes políticas de nivel múltiple determinan el uso y la protección de los bosques tanto a nivel nacional como local.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2005
    Myanmar

    Big companies push small prospectors aside in hunt for Burma’s riches...

    "In Alice in Wonderland, the Red Queen tells Alice: “A word means what I want it to mean.” That sums up in one sentence the state of Burma’s statute books—particularly those decrees relating to mining the country’s rich resources.

    Robert Moody, in his 1998 “Report on Mining in Burma,” put it more directly. The law on mining passed by the Rangoon regime in 1994, he said, “is not just one, but a parade of farts in a bucket.”

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2005
    Myanmar

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
    "The Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC) first collaborated with communitybased
    organizations to document the scale and distribution of internal displacement
    in Eastern Burma during 2002. Two years later, another survey was coordinated to
    enhance understanding about the vulnerability of internally displaced persons. These
    assessments sought to increase awareness about the situation in conflict-affected
    areas which remain largely inaccessible to the international community.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2005
    Africa

    Review of the situation of land rights in Apac District and of opportunities for land rights protection work. Examines the 1998 Land Act and its implementation in practice. Finds that the protection clauses for women are proving ineffective. Also looks at the major threats and barriers to land rights and suggests ways forward. Among many other pertinent questions, asks why the Ugandan Government has shown so little interest in customary tenure and why it pursues land titling to the extent it does.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2005
    Africa

    An in-depth and far-reaching ‘think-piece’ commissioned by ‘but not necessarily reflecting the views of’ DFID. The focus is on Africa and South and South-East Asia, and on land registration and titling, and decentralisation of land administration systems. Draws attention to the effects of land policy for the poor, arguing that land rights are often instruments in local politics and power relations.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2005
    Myanmar

    Key developments since May 2004: Myanmar"atrocity demining") was reported in 2004-2005, as in previous years. No humanitarian mine clearance has taken place in Burma. No military or village demining has been reported since May 2004. At a UNHCR seminar in November 2004, the mine threat was identified as one of the most serious impediments to the safe return of internally displaced persons and refugees. Mine risk education is carried out by NGOs on an increasing basis, in refugee camps and within other assistance efforts.

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