Bioenergy sits at the intersection of three of the world’s great challenges - energy security, climate change, and poverty reduction - and has received an enormous amount of attention in the past few years. Joint work on these issues is vital considering that together, the G8 +5 Countries account for about 55 percent of the world’s population, 70+ percent of global GDP, and about 72 percent of world energy-related and industry CO2 emissions (excluding deforestation). Bioenergy statistics are inadequate and not up to date.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007France, Estonia, United States of America, Sweden, Germany, China, Australia, Latvia, Canada, Colombia, Lithuania, South Africa, Malaysia, Italy, Netherlands, India, Mexico, Brazil
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Guatemala, China, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Thailand, New Zealand, Nepal, Laos, Philippines, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Tanzania, Netherlands, India, Mongolia, Cambodia, Asia
Laos depends heavily on rice based agriculture systems and there is evidence that the traditional diversified diet and income base is being eroded, resulting in a negative effect on the livelihoods of the people. The opportunity to gather food in forests is diminishing and dietary diversity is being narrowed.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Nepal, Burkina Faso, Laos, Mozambique, Zambia, Kyrgyzstan, France, Mali, Cambodia, Togo, Africa
Cette étude a été réalisée au Mali entre le 23/11 et le 16/12/2006 pour le Service des Régimes Fonciers de la F.A.O. dans le cadre de son programme : « Documents normatifs pour une meilleure administration foncière ».
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2007Philippines, South Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Ghana, Oceania, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Asia
This report documents the performance of the world’s second largest mining company with regard to corporate social responsibility (CSR). Despite Anglo American’s participation in various voluntary CSR initiatives, it continues to abuse human rights, fuel conflict and damage the local environment and livelihoods. The report documents a number of Anglo American’s activities which highlight that there is still a long way to go as far as the company's commitment to CSR, including:
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Bangladesh, Finland, Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand, New Zealand, Asia, Oceania
Following the widespread wreckage and loss of life caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004, unprecedented efforts where made to restore order and rebuild the lives and livelihoods of the millions affected. A proportion of the reconstruction and rehabilitation effort was focused on environmental rehabilitation and a part of this again on the rehabilitation of coastal trees and forests. Many programmes were implemented during the post-tsunami period to restore coastal trees and forests, and in particular mangrove forests.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Bangladesh, Honduras, Gambia, Chile, Micronesia, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Australia, Iceland, Guinea, Nigeria, Kiribati, Uganda, Madagascar, Myanmar, Ecuador, Argentina, India, Senegal
Varias décadas atrás, las administraciones públicas concentraban sus esfuerzos en fomentar la pesca y la acuicultura y asegurar el crecimiento de la producción y el consumo de sus productos. En el decenio de 1980, cuando muchos recursos alcanzaron la plena explotación o incluso una explotación excesiva, los responsables de las políticas comenzaron a prestar más atención a la ordenación pesquera además de ocuparse del fomento de la acuicultura.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Indonesia, Australia, United States of America, Germany, Europe
Fires have attracted interest and generated alarm since the early 1980s. This concern has been particularly evident in tropical forests of Southeast Asia and the Amazon, but disastrous fires in recent summers in Australia, Europe, and the United States have drawn worldwide attention.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Mozambique, Honduras, Netherlands, Philippines, South Africa, El Salvador, Germany, Italy, Syrian Arab Republic, Bolivia, Cambodia, Canada, Brazil, Kenya
The goal of this exercise is to identify some of the tools a development agent needs for achieving effective local participation in policy development. The intended audiences are FAO professionals and their colleagues, in other agencies and in the field programs. This paper uses an analogy of walking and climbing to separate the familiar project experiences (the walking) from the less-known territory of policy influence (the climbing).
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Egypt, United States of America, Spain, Iraq, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, United Kingdom, Peru, Iran, Argentina, India, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Mexico, Netherlands
Drainage of agricultural land is one of the most critical water management tools for the sustainability of productive cropping systems, as frequently this sustainability is extremely dependent on the control of waterlogging and soil salinization in the rootzone of most crops. On some agricultural lands, the natural drainage is sufficient to maintain high productivity. However, many others require improvements in surface and subsurface drainage in order to optimize land productivity, while maintaining the quality of soil resources.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2007Angola, Timor-Leste, Rwanda, Iraq, Afghanistan, Burundi, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Pakistan, Colombia, Mozambique, Liberia, South Africa, Vietnam, Somalia, Italy, Cambodia, Sudan, Georgia, Uganda
The Pinheiro Principles provide restitution practitioners, as well as States and UN and others agencies, with a consolidated text relating to the legal, policy, procedural, institutional and technical implementation mechanisms for housing and property restitution. As such, the Principles provide specific policy guidance regarding how to ensure the right to housing and property restitution in practice and for the implementation of restitution laws, programmes and policies, based on existing international human rights, humanitarian, refugee and national standards.
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