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Who owns the world's forests?

January, 2002
Latin America and the Caribbean
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land tenure
This study examines land tenure data for 24 of the 30 most forested countries accounting for 93% of the worlds natural forest cover and examines global trends in forest ownership.
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Ownership, control and access: land tenure and land degradation in Northern Togo

January, 2002
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land
farmers
desertification
land tenure
environment
land degradation
land use
Traditional land tenure systems in Togo have been undermined but not destroyed by the introduction of private property and ‘modern’ tenure reform. However, confusion over land tenure issues has proved to be an obstacle to efforts to promote efficient resource management and to combat desertification.
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Left on the back burner: time to put energy onto the urban planning agenda?

January, 2002
India, Southern Asia
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
urban planning
Could more efficient use of energy have an impact on poverty alleviation? What changes in energy use patterns are likely to generate the greatest benefits for the poor? What are the constraints on the uptake of energy efficiency measures? Can they be overcome?
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Curtains for sandflies? Controlling skin leishmaniasis in Venezuela.

January, 2002
Latin America and the Caribbean
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
environment
deforestation
The incidence of skin diseases, including leishmaniasis, spread by different varieties of sandflies in tropical areas has increased dramatically in humans. Because of deforestation, sandflies have encroached further into human settlements. Here they have begun to infect domestic animals and humans. What can be done to control this trend? Researchers studied the impact that insecticide impregnated curtains have had on skin leishmaniasis.
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The great water robbery

January, 2002
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
Water is a precious resource and nowadays it is becoming more and more limited.
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Global water outlook to 2025: averting an impending crisis

January, 2002
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
environment
food security
IFPRI and IWMI's report uses computer modeling to project water demand and availability through to 2025 and predicts the likely impact of changes in water policy and investment, making specific recommendations for specific locations around the globe.The report argues that if current water policies continue, farmers will find it difficult to meet the world’s food needs. Hardest hit will be the world’s poorest people.
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Child’s play? Involving young people in urban planning and environmental management

January, 2002
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
urban planning
youth
How can young people be involved in creating more livable cities? Can the noble participation principles set forth in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Agenda 21 of the Earth Summit, and Habitat II be realised? What is being done to help young people, especially children in difficult circumstances, to get their voices heard by policy-makers?
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Demand responsive urban planning: neighbourhood participation in infrastructure improvement

January, 2002
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
urban planning
waste (abuse)
poverty
Can the twin developmental goals of administrative decentralisation and improving services for the urban poor be meshed? How can urban authorities and local politicians learn to listen to service users, particularly women? What services should be run by municipalities and what could be managed by neighbourhood or private management?
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Zoning—lessons from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

January, 2002
Australia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
zoning
Over the last 25 years a range of management ‘tools’, including zoning plans, permits, education, and more recently management plans, have been applied to regulate access and to control and mitigate impacts associated with human use of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park GBRMP.A multiple-use zoning approach provides high levels of protection for speci c areas whilst allowing reasonable uses, including certain shing activities, to continue in other zones. Zoning has long been regarded as a cornerstone of Marine Park management,
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Improved land management in the Lake Victoria basin: annual technical report July 2001 to June 2002

January, 2002
Kenya, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
climate change
land management
land
This report addresses the challenges of land management in the Lake Victoria basin of East Africa. In 1999 the World Agroforestry Centre launched a major effort to identify, diagnose and reverse degradation in the Lake Victoria basin, focusing primarily on the Kenyan part of the basin. Dubbed “TransVic,” this project was supported by a number of donor agencies and collaborators, with particularly strong support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).