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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Qatar, Bangladesh, Honduras, United States of America, Iraq, Brazil, Germany, China, Sri Lanka, Malta, Iran, Pakistan, Jordan, Philippines, Nicaragua, United Arab Emirates, Italy, Tanzania, Kuwait, India, Saudi Arabia, Netherlands

    Water - Source of food security. World Food Day: 16 October 2002

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Nepal, Laos, Bangladesh, Philippines, Malaysia, China, Italy, Cambodia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Asia

    Living aquatic resources play a fundamental role in sustaining the livelihoods of many of the rural poor in Asia, providing crucial buffers to shock and food insecurity, and offering opportunities for diverse and flexible forms of income generation. As with any production-based intervention, the poorest groups face significant constraints to entry into aquaculture. However, aquaculture offers many opportunities for livelihood benefits that other sectors do not. Aquaculture technologies appropriate for poor people are now largely in place.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Fiji, Bangladesh, Dominican Republic, Mali, Guatemala, Peru, Burkina Faso, Nepal, Philippines, South Africa, Nicaragua, Uganda, Italy, Tanzania, Tunisia, India, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, Kenya

    This study focuses on the gender dimension of agriculture-related legislation, examining the legal status of women in three key areas. The result is an analysis identifying the main legal and some non-legal factors that affect the existence and exercise of women’s agriculture-related rights.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Bangladesh, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Indonesia, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Niger, Nepal, Laos, Nicaragua, Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, India, Mexico, Brazil, Africa, Asia

    Section 1 will examine current debates around poverty, vulnerability and livelihood issues related to access to natural resources. Section 2 will describe the main features of the sustainable livelihoods approaches and relate them to current thinking about access to natural resources. Section 3 will describe and categorise the different types of problems and opportunities that the rural poor face with respect to access to natural resources.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Laos, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Cambodia, India, Pakistan, Republic of Korea, China, Thailand, Asia

    A report of the proceedings of the October 2001 regional consultation on the above theme, the document explains the urgent need for arresting and reversing the decline in investment in land and water development in Asia-Pacific countries. Land and water investment priorities include coping with worsening land degradation, increasing productivity of the region’s large rainfed areas and modernising wasteful water delivery and irrigation systems.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Honduras, Nepal, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Peru, Guatemala, United Kingdom, China, Benin, Malawi, France, Colombia, Kenya, Philippines, South Africa, Lesotho, Madagascar, Nicaragua, India, Senegal, Brazil

    This conmpendium of recent sustainable development initiatives in the field of agriculture and land management has been developed as a supporting document for the Task Manager's Report on the Land and Agriculture Cluster for Chapters 10, 12 and 14 of Agenda 21. The report draws together 75 cases from over 45 countries, illustrating the many features of improved land management and sustainable agriculture and rural development.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Angola, Fiji, Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Vanuatu, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Italy, Cameroon, Thailand, Laos, Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, Madagascar, Myanmar, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, India, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Asia, Africa

    According to an estimate made by the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR), the global local usage of rattan is worth US$ 2.5 billion and external trade of rattan is estimated to generate US$ 4 billion. Seven hundred million people worldwide use rattan. Most of the raw material for local processing and for supplying the rattan industry is still obtained by harvesting of unmanaged, wild rattan resources in natural tropical forests. Only a very small share is obtained from rattan plantations.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2002
    Bangladesh, Switzerland, Kenya, Mali, Germany, China, Sri Lanka, Australia, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Thailand, Nepal, Turkey, Myanmar, India, Vietnam, Asia

    A quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and national resources management for the Asia-Pacific region.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2002
    Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Iran, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Nepal, Jordan, Pakistan, Philippines, Libya, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, India, Sudan, Mongolia, Netherlands, Asia

    A quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and national resources management for the Asia-Pacific region.

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