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  1. Library Resource
    Rural&Urbano

    ABORDAGENS TERRITORIAIS

    Journal Articles & Books
    September, 2016
    South America, Brazil
    Neste ensaio defendemos que a agroecologia pode ser considerada um processo de recampesinização contemporâneo, se analisada a partir das suas premissas básicas de integração aos processos cooperativos de produção aliados ao manejo ecológico da terra. Desta forma, o agroecossistema assume lugar central que visa integrar a sustentabilidade na produção agrícola promovendo um contraponto à crescente crise agroambiental. Esta aproximação é situada no contexto das abordagens territoriais, como forma de garantir a autonomia e identidade local. 

  2. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, Africa, Asia, South America, Americas

    In addition to global events and food policy changes, 2015 also saw important developments with potentially wide repercussions in individual countries and regions. This chapter offers perspectives on major food policy developments across the major regions: Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2016
    Mexico

    Actualmente las áreas rurales campesinas presentan una alta inequidad de ingresos, vulnerabilidad ante las fuerzas del mercado, abandono creciente de alimentos tradicionales y desvalorización social del trabajo campesino. Ante este escenario surge el cuestionamiento sobre cómo las familias campesinas están enfrentando esta problemática y cómo satisfacen sus necesidades básicas, en particular las referentes a la alimentación, aspecto básico en el desarrollo de las capacidades de las personas y sus relaciones sociales.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2016
    Uganda, Ethiopia, Ghana, Africa

    Equitable access to land is vital for inclusive economic growth, sustainable development and food security. Much is known about the topics of land governance and food security, but it is not always clear how the two relate to each other, especially in specific country contexts. Brings together findings and outcomes from Uganda, Ghana and Ethiopia to provide policy recommendations for improved land governance and food security in Africa.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2016
    Africa

    With all the focus on land grabbing and food security, water issues tend to be an afterthought. Foreign investments tend to be concentrated around the main African river basins. Water resources are lifelines for locals, so understanding the legal framework governing investments is critical. Covers how abundant are Africa’s water resources?; what does the evidence show?; the legal framework governing water rights and farmland investments; domestic law and contracts; international investment, freshwater, environmental and human rights law; recommendations.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2016
    Africa

    Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world. Includes what exactly does the data tell us?, despite many failed deals, the problem is real, the food security agenda is still a factor driving farmland deals, agribusiness expansion is the main objective, the financial sector is a big player,offshore and illicit finance underpin these deals, farmland grabs are also water grabs, cause for hope: resistance is growing.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2016
    Africa

    Studies the complex linkages between land governance and how they relate directly and indirectly to local food security in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia. Found that floriculture investments have both negative and positive impacts through land use changes and land acquisition processes, job creation and employment conditions and technology and knowledge transfers.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2016
    Nigeria, Africa

    The rising conflicts between farmers and pastoralists threaten Nigeria’s food security, economic stability and ecological balance. Instead of ‘silently’ resolving the issues, the Nigerian government should intensify all means to end these crimes against livelihoods and address the root causes, like climate change, displacement and appropriation of grazing reserves.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2016
    Myanmar, Global

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
    "Four and a half decades after the Club of Rome published its landmark report
    on
    Limits to Growth
    , the study remains critical to our understanding of economic
    prosperity. This new review of the
    Limits
    debate has been written to mark the
    launch of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Limits to Growth.
    The 1972 report articulated for the first time the dynamic nature of our dependency
    on physical resources and on ecological systems. It illustrated the processes of

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