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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2010Spain
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Comunicações apresentadas na Conferencia do Instituto de Estudos Sociais e económicos
Reports & ResearchOctober, 2010MozambiqueA experiência económica de Moçambique é frequentemente apresentada como um exemplo de sucesso na promoção de rápido crescimento com estabilização e redução da pobreza. O grau e a robustez do sucesso económico moçambicano são determinados pela magnitude das taxas de variação, isto é, por quanto é que a economia cresce e a pobreza reduz, e por quão estáveis são (ou por quão pouco variam) os indicadores monetários, chave da abordagem monetarista de estabilização (inflação, reservas internacionais e taxa de câmbio).
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Piecing together an economic puzzle
Manuals & GuidelinesOctober, 2010Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Malawi, Lesotho, BotswanaThe handbook introduces key economic and related concepts explaining the functioning of urban land markets. By introducing key classical economic concepts, the handbook provides foundational economic terms that are often referred to in relation to urban land markets. In doing this, we do not imply that African land markets should or ought to 'fit' into neo-classical economic theories, nor do we propose that 'perfect' markets exist.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2010Brazil, Ecuador, Peru
Between 2005 and 2009, the EU-financed project ForLive set out to analyse promising local forest management initiatives in the Amazon Basin in four countries: Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. Researchers aimed to identify locally viable practices that benefit livelihoods and ecological stabilisation of landscapes, as well as to define ways to promote these practices as a basis for sound rural development. This book presents lessons learnt from more than 100 studies by researchers from Latin America, from practitioners and from local families themselves.
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Library ResourceMultimediaOctober, 2010Cambodia
Youth Bamboo Shoots Slum School (YBSSS) is a project of VFI Cambodia.
The goal: to provide a safe and creative place for over 65 children to attend school in the dilapidated slum area near Battambang City's central railway station. -
Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2010Global
As the world continues to experience a severe food crisis, with over one billion people going hungry, land grabbing – the purchase or lease of land by wealthy, food-insecure nations and private investors from mostly poor, developing nations in order to produce food crops for export – is gaining momentum. Some governments and international agencies believe that the in? ux of money and technology can turn land grabbing into a win–win situation for all involved. But is this really the case?
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2011Global
This training package provides an introduction to the important, complex, and sometimes daunting theme of improving land governance as a means to enhance gender equality and grassroots participation in land matters. This training package is designed for professionals, working in the field of land, governance, grassroots participation and gender in public institutions or civil society organizations.
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Library ResourceTraining Resources & ToolsJanuary, 2010South Africa
This case study draws on research into some of the processes through which people access, hold, and trade land in poorer areas of towns and cities. The research was commissioned by Urban LandMark and undertaken by the Isandla Institute, Stephen Berrisford Consulting and Progressus Research and Development.
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The Case of Biofuel and Forestry Investments in Kilwa and Kilolo
Reports & ResearchDecember, 2010TanzaniaNew commercial pressures on land and its impact on small producers is one of the major issues being discussed in both national and international arenas. As foreign states and corporate entities continue to exert pressures on African countries to acquire land for various investment purposes, Tanzania is not exempted. The country is stereotypically perceived as having large underutilized, or rather unexploited, fertile land – the so-called ‗virgin land‘.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsApril, 2010Bolivia
Este documento ofrece un mapa de los actores institucionales multilaterales (BID, FIDA, BM, FAO, IICA, CEPAL, USAID, GTZ Y UE) de carácter financiero o técnico, que trabajan en la temática de desarrollo rural sudamericano.
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