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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Kyrgyzstan, Europe, Central Asia

    The study reviews the macroeconomic developments in the Kyrgyz Republic following the collapse of the Soviet Union, when adjustments were required since output fell by fifty percent between 1991-95, resulting in adverse fiscal consequences, which triggered losses in tax revenues, along with the implicit end of energy subsidies.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Ethiopia, Africa

    The Government of Ethiopia drew up a long-term industrial strategy in 1994

    known as Agricultural Development-Led Industrialization (ADLI). The

    Government is convinced that agriculture is the engine that can propel the

    socio-economic development of Ethiopia by providing the basis for

    industrialization and necessary surplus for the expansion of other sectors of

    the economy. The ADLI strategy gives priority to the development of

    agriculture as a primary stimulus for the sustainable growth of agro-industry

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Global

    Desertification occurs in drylands,which span a third of the earth ’s land surface in over 110 countries.It influences the lives of about 500 000 people – the so-called environmental refugees –including many of the world ’s poorest and most marginalized populations. Each year 12 million hectares (ha)are lost to deserts.That is enough land to grow 20 million tonnes of grain.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Western Africa

    In West Africa, land questions are rising in importance. As pressures on resources increase, farmers need sufficient tenure security to encourage production and investment in land. The procedures governing access to and control over land are of vital importance in promoting intensification and commercialisation of agriculture, combating poverty, and reducing risks of conflict. At the same time, the process of decentralisation and establishment of new local government structures raise the question of which institutions should be responsible for land management.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Global

    This paper discusses the role of FAO support to the Government of Mozambiques Land Commission since 1995, through three consecutive projects. While each has had a relatively short duration, all have been planned and implemented within a single conceptual framework with a much longer time horizon. This has allowed a difficult and complex issue to be progressively developed and nurtured within a realistic time scale, while building up a strong sense of national ownership of the process.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Benin

    The aim of this paper is to analyse the institutional arrangements for gaining access to land and natural resources in southern Benin. This study analyses these practices in two zones, the Allada region and the coastal zone around the city of Ouidah, each of which has particular conditions of access to land.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Cambodia

    A news article reporting on the opening of a new rubber processing factory by state-owned Peam Cheang Rubber Plantation in Kampong Cham.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Myanmar

    A project is in progress to build a number of roads in Kachin State in return for huge logging concessions. While improving and expanding the infrastructure in Kachin State is much needed, the impact of this deal on the environment could prove to be disastrous.

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