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Questionnaire for Mapping Land Degradation and Sustainable Land Management (QM) Version 2

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Switzerland, South Africa, Lesotho, China, Italy, Eswatini, Cuba, Tunisia, Argentina, Senegal, Netherlands, Europe, Asia, Africa, Northern America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
sustainable land management
environment
land degradation
land management
The WOCAT-LADA-DESIRE mapping tool is based on the original WOCAT mapping questionnaire (WOCAT, 2007). It has been expanded to pay more attention to issues such as biological and water degradation, it also places more emphasis on direct and socio-economic causes of these phenomena, including their impacts on ecosystem services. It evaluates what type of land degradation is actually happening where and why and what is being done about it in terms of sustainable land management (SLM) in the form of a questionnaire.
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Recursos naturales y medio ambiente boletín informativo

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Senegal, China, Asia, Africa
natural resources management
water management
landowners
natural disasters
land rights
land tenure
right of access
land economics
landlessness
land ownership
Este mes nos es grato invitarles a participar en una consulta electrónica sobre las Directrices Voluntarias sobre la Gobernanza Responsable en la Tenencia de la Tierra y Otros Recursos Naturales. Tras un prolongado proceso de consultas regionales, y antes de acometer la redacción del borrador cero, se están solicitando ahora materiales adicionales para la elaboración de estas directrices.
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Reforma de la tenencia forestal

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Honduras, Nepal, Zambia, Gambia, Chile, Guatemala, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Australia, Ghana, Congo, Venezuela, Guyana, Costa Rica, Malawi, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Madagascar, Colombia, India, Paraguay
Forest Tenure
customary law
land governance
land tenure
community forestry
forest land
land reform
La seguridad de la tenencia es un requisito previo importante para la gesti?n forestal sostenible. La diversificaci?n de los sistemas de tenencia podr?a proporcionar una base para mejorar la gesti?n de los boques y los medios de vida locales, especialmente cuando la capacidad de gesti?n forestal del Estado no es suficiente.
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Regulations of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Survey Markers (2011).

Regulations
January, 2011
China
surveyors
These Regulations, consisting of 26 Articles, are formulated in accordance with the Surveying and Mapping Law of the People's Republic of China, for the purpose of strengthening the protection and management of surveying markers.These Regulations shall be applicable to the surveying markers placed in the territorial air, land and waters of the People's Republic of China, as well as other sea areas under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China (art.2).
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Report on Major Results of the Third Wave Survey on The Social Status of Women in China

January, 2011
China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
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Report on the Symposium on Legal Aspects of Large Scale Investments in Land: Implications for Food Security and Rural Development

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Angola, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, China, Ghana, Ethiopia, Niger, Malawi, Thailand, Mozambique, Liberia, Japan, South Africa, Vietnam, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana, Argentina, India, Uganda, Brazil
property rights
land governance
land tenure
rural development
private ownership
land ownership
The Symposium on Legal Aspects of Large Scale Investments in Land: Implications for Food Security and Rural Development was held at FAO Headquarters in Rome on March 4th 2011. The Symposium was co-hosted by FAO and the World Food Law Institute at Howard University School of Law.
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Response of dissolved trace metals to land use/land cover and their source apportionment using a receptor model in a subtropic river, China

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
China
Urban Tenure
urbanization
land cover
mining
land use
Water samples were collected for determination of dissolved trace metals in 56 sampling sites throughout the upper Han River, China. Multivariate statistical analyses including correlation analysis, stepwise multiple linear regression models, and principal component and factor analysis (PCA/FA) were employed to examine the land use influences on trace metals, and a receptor model of factor analysis-multiple linear regression (FA-MLR) was used for source identification/apportionment of anthropogenic heavy metals in the surface water of the River.
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role of policies in land use/cover change since the 1970s in ecologically fragile karst areas of Southwest China: A case study on the Maotiaohe watershed

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
forestry
desertification
land use
sustainable development
Study of land use/cover change and its driving forces is one of the most significant fields in global environmental change research. Karst land is a type of important and unique terrain on the Earth's surface because of its extensive distribution, impressive landforms, and high ecological fragility. Recently, more and more researchers have realized that irrational land use practices are leading to a series of alarming environmental issues including rocky desertification in karst areas.
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Rural migrant workers in China

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
China
rural development
rural population
urbanization
urban population
sustainable development
land governance
land policies
In today’s China, about 220 million rural migrant workers are on the move – this is more than two thirds of the US population – and their number is set to increase in the course of the country’s urbanisation process. At a rate of 47 percent, still below global average, and against the backdrop of a marked rural-urban divide, urbanisation is not only an effect of rapid economic development, but also forms part of the Chinese government’s economic development strategy.
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Rural Women's Land Rights in China

January, 2012
China
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments