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2000 World Census of Agriculture: Analysis and International Comparison of the Results (1996-2005)

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Serbia, Nigeria, Dominican Republic, Zambia, Israel, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Samoa, Ukraine, Peru, Belarus, China, Comoros, Slovakia, Seychelles, Mozambique, Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Haiti, Iraq, Russia, Mexico, Mongolia
land use
Since 1950 FAO has prepared and advocated decennial programmes for the World Census of Agriculture (WCA). The 2000 Programme was the sixth in the series. These programmes on one hand serve to promote availability of internationally comparable data on the structure of agriculture; on the other hand they provide methodological guidance to countries in collecting data, following standard concepts, definitions and classifications.
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A catalogue of tested crop, soil, and water management options under varied land degradation conditions and socio-economic environment in the target areas in Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia

Reports & Research
November, 2012
Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
water management
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A catalogue of tested crop, soil, and water management options under varied land degradation conditions and socio-economic environment in the target areas in Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia: Africa RISING early wins project proposal

Reports & Research
April, 2012
Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
water management
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A catalogue of tested crop, soil, and water management options under varied land degradation conditions and socio-economic environment in the target areas in Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia: Report of the Africa RISING early wins project inception worksho...

Reports & Research
May, 2012
Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
water management
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A handbook on urban land markets for Africa

Piecing together an economic puzzle

Manuals & Guidelines
October, 2010
Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Malawi, Lesotho, Botswana
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
land
land markets
urban areas
research
The 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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Access to cryptic arthropod larvae supports the atypical winter breeding seasonality of Meyer’s Parrot (Poicephalus meyeri) throughout the African subtropics

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Tanzania, Zambia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
deforestation
land management
Meyer’s Parrot Poicephalus meyeri has the widest distributional range of any African parrot. There are six subspecies distributed throughout the African subtropics, all of which manage to breed successfully during the winter dry season when few other cavity-nesting birds are actively nesting. In 2004, we recorded Meyer’s Parrots feeding on four cryptic arthropod larvae incubating inside fruits and pods in their seasonal diet. All of these were previously unknown in the diet of African parrots.
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Access to Land and Poverty Reduction in Rural Zambia: Connecting the Policy Issues

Policy Papers & Briefs
October, 2009
Zambia
Land & Food Security
food security
land
Key Policy Message:- Despite having relatively low population densities, inadequate access to land is one of the major causes of rural poverty in Zambia.- The apparent paradox of inadequate access to land for many rural households in a country of low population density is partially reconciled when taking into account that economically viable arable land requires at least some degree of access to basic services, water, road infrastructure, and markets.
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Access to Land, and Poverty Reduction in Rural Zambia: Connecting the Policy Issues

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Zambia
agriculture
land
poverty
It might be considered unlikely that inadequate access to land would be one of the major causes of rural poverty in Zambia. However, evidence presented in this paper shows that economically viable arable land is not in great abundance in Zambia after considering the current situation with respect to access to road infrastructure and access to services and markets. In fact, access to land is already a major problem for large segments of the rural population in Zambia.
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Access to Seeds and Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Guatemala, China, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Thailand, New Zealand, Nepal, Laos, Philippines, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Tanzania, Netherlands, India, Mongolia, Cambodia, Asia
Forest Tenure
land governance
land tenure
community forestry
forest land
grazing
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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Access to water, pastoral resource management and pastoralists’ livelihoods

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2006
United States of America, Nepal, Zambia, Mozambique, Guatemala, Guinea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Laos, Kyrgyzstan, Somalia, Italy, Botswana, Cambodia, India, Sudan, Mongolia, Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
pastoralists
natural resources management
water management
land tenure
agropastoral systems
land access
land governance
This paper represents part of an area of work which analyses the linkages between rights to land and water. An initial scoping paper explored the interface between land and water rights (LSP Working Paper 10: Hodgson, S. (2004). “Land and water – the rights interface”). It is complemented by two regional analyses: this Working Paper and LSP Working Paper 25: IIED. (2006). “Land and water rights in the Sahel: Tenure challenges of improving access to water for agriculture”.