Forests are essential for human survival and well-being. They harbour two thirds of all terrestrial animal and plant species. They provide us with food, oxygen, shelter, recreation, and spiritual sustenance, and they are the source for over 5,000 commercially-traded products, ranging from pharmaceuticals to timber and clothing. The biodiversity of forests—the variety of genes, species, and forest ecosystems—underpins these goods and services, and is the basis for long-term forest health and stability.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesJanuary, 2009Global
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesReports & ResearchJanuary, 2009Africa
Avant-propos La notion de désertification se définit comme une dégradation des sols en zone aride, semi-aride et subhumide sèche, souvent appelée simplement « zone aride ». On estime qu’elle résulte d’une combinaison de facteurs, parmi lesquels les changements climatiques et l’activité humaine. Plus d’un tiers de la superficie totale de la terre est considéré comme zone aride. En termes démographiques, c’est un cinquième de la population totale du globe qui vit en zone aride déjà dégradée ou menacée de désertification.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesDecember, 2008Brazil
Se você abriu esta cartilha é porque luta, acredita e se organiza. Onde você estiver, com que você trabalhar, seja na escola, na associação, no conselho, no sindicato, debaixo de um pé de manga, na beira de um rio, no agito da cidade. Seja bem vindo! Esta cartilha faz parte de uma série com seis publicações, organizadas pela Plataforma Dhesca Brasil, e cada uma trata de um direito humano específico: alimentação e terra rural, educação, meio ambiente, moradia e terra urbana, saúde e trabalho.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesJanuary, 2008Global
Developing new land policies can be a long and difficult process. It is even more so if the policies are to be pro-poor – if they are to help correct the disadvantages that poor people typically suffer in many areas of land policy.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesJanuary, 2008Global
This guide presents a general overview on institutional harmonisation processes, i.e. the various factors and tools included in fostering institutional harmonisation in a sector. The experiences informing this document mainly result from the tacit knowledge of the land sector in Kenya by UN-Habitat and the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN). They are complemented by experiences from other sectors (such as water, governance and decentralisation), African countries and from state as well as nonstate actors.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesDecember, 2008Global
Secure access to productive land is critical to poverty, acknowledging the complexity and
dynamics of evolving rural realities; (b) identify
the major implications of that relationship for
IFAD’s strategy and programme development
and implementation; (c) articulate guiding
principles for mainstreaming land issues in
the Fund’s main operational instruments and
processes; and (d) provide the framework for
the subsequent development of operational
guidelines and decision tools.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesApril, 2008Guatemala
SUMILLA: Proceso penal para quienes cometen algún tipo de violencia en contra de la mujer. RESUMEN: El objeto es garantizar la vida, la libertad, la integridad, la dignidad, la protección y la igualdad de todas las mujeres ante la ley, y de la ley, particularmente cuando por condición de género, en las relaciones de poder o confianza, en el ámbito público o privado quien agrede, cometa en contra de ellas prácticas discriminatorias, de violencia física, psicológica, económica o de menosprecio a sus derechos.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesOctober, 2008Guatemala
SUMILLA Regula principios, objetivos, procedimientos y en general aquellos aspectos necesarios para darle seguridad y certeza a todas las personas, consiguiendo hacer efectivo su derecho al acceso a la información pública y a su participación dentro de la auditoria social fiscalización ciudadana.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesJanuary, 2008Global
This manual provides guidance on management logic that can be taken up in different organisational contexts and structures to incorporate security into the work plan to protect human rights defenders.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesDecember, 2008India
For modernization of land records system in the country, a modified programme, viz., the National Land Records Modernization Programme (NLRMP) has been formulated by merging two Centrally-sponsored schemes of Computerization of Land Records (CLR) and Strengthening of Revenue Administration and Updating of Land Records (SRA&ULR). The NLRMP was approved by the Cabinet on 21.08.2008.
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