The article examines the European share in large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper aims to identify correlation between biofuels policy and large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa and the consequences of this phenomenon. It first identifies the backgrounds that caused the increased interest in biofuel production and, consequently, African land acquisition in recent years. Then, it examines growth in the number of land transactions that take place on the continent. Finally, the paper investigates the share of European capital in land transactions.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2013Autriche, Belgique, Bulgarie, Chypre, République tchèque, Allemagne, Danemark, Espagne, Estonie, Finlande, France, Grèce, Croatie, Hongrie, Irlande, Italie, Lituanie, Luxembourg, Lettonie, Malte, Pays-Bas, Pologne, Portugal, Roumanie, Slovaquie, Slovénie, Suède, Afrique
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2015Brésil, États-Unis d'Amérique, Chypre, Bulgarie, République tchèque, Hongrie, Pologne, Roumanie, Slovaquie, Danemark, Estonie, Finlande, Irlande, Lettonie, Lituanie, Suède, Croatie, Grèce, Italie, Malte, Portugal, Slovénie, Espagne, Autriche, Belgique, France, Allemagne, Luxembourg, Pays-Bas
The protection of fertile soils is a precondition for sustainable development. In the final document of the conference of the United Nations on sustainable development in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20 Conference), the international community thus agreed to strive for a “land degradation neutral world”. The legal study by Ecologic Institute, Berlin, firstly scrutinizes some national legislation (Germany/EU, USA and Brazil) in order to identify legal instruments which are suitable for the implementation of the goal of a “land degradation neutral world”.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2010Autriche, Belgique, Bulgarie, Chypre, République tchèque, Allemagne, Danemark, Espagne, Estonie, Finlande, France, Grèce, Croatie, Hongrie, Irlande, Italie, Lituanie, Luxembourg, Lettonie, Malte, Pays-Bas, Pologne, Portugal, Roumanie, Slovaquie, Slovénie, Suède, Afrique
This report examines the role of European Union (EU) member States, both collectively and individually, in the current reported wave of foreign land investment in Africa that has led to the current use of the term ‘land grabbing’.It discusses whether this role is consistent with the EU’s commitment to advance agriculture in Africa in order to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals and member states’ obligations under international human rights law.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2015Allemagne, Pays-Bas, Suède
There is increasing recognition of the need for society to adapt to the impacts of climate change, especially in the water sector. Adaptation to climatic impacts involves both infrastructural adjustments, such as reinforcing dykes or creating water storage capacity, and broader processes of societal change, such as adjusting land use planning, more efficient water use or agricultural transitions. The aim of this special issue is not to ‘assess’ the current state of play for adaptation strategies and policies in Europe.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2006Bangladesh, Pays-Bas, Suède, Sri Lanka, Asie
This project is funded by the European Commission under its Asia Pro Eco II Program. It is undertaken by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Sri Lanka; COSI, Sri Lanka; the International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), the Netherlands; NGO Forum for Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation, Bangladesh; and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden. The project pilot cities are Rajshahi City in Bangladesh and Kurunegala City in Sri Lanka.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresjanvier, 2019Suède, Ukraine, Pérou, Sri Lanka, Royaume-Uni, Canada, Ouganda, Ouzbékistan, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Pays-Bas, France, Espagne, Croatie, Chine, Australie, Irlande, Finlande, Nouvelle-Zélande, Rwanda, Tadjikistan, Kirghizistan, Ghana
This guide is about extending the recording or registration of tenure rights to people who currently are not served by systems to record their rights. It provides practical advice on ways to introduce a new system to record tenure rights and for the recording of rights for the first time by the state, a process that is sometimes called first registration.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2014Burkina Faso, Philippines, Nicaragua, Mali, Suède, Pays-Bas, Canada, Inde, Niger, Brésil, Liban
This book tells the story of these seven decades of the history of FAO, its protagonists and their endeavours. We have dug into the FAO archives to bring to light unpublished black and white images, which form a portfolio of evocative images of the early years of the Organization.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesseptembre, 2018Guinée équatoriale, États-Unis d'Amérique, République dominicaine, Suède, Sri Lanka, Indonésie, République de Corée, Costa Rica, Pologne, Pays-Bas, Lettonie, Autriche, Iran, Finlande, Thaïlande, Maroc, Japon, Italie, Norvège, Soudan, Brésil, Cuba
Report of the 24th Session of the Committee on Forestry
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresmars, 2019Belgique, Suède, Allemagne, Malaisie, Portugal, Pays-Bas, Liban, France, Slovaquie, Espagne, Chili, Guatemala, Danemark, Irlande, Grèce, Finlande, Thaïlande, Nouvelle-Zélande, Maroc, Italie, Hongrie, Norvège
Given its wide scope on the work on forests, FAO requests information from its member countries in many different ways, using various reporting formats and questionnaires. The collected information is used to produce several outputs such as databases, overviews, reports, case-studies and other analyses. Below the flow of information from countries to FAO is sorted in two main categories: 1. Regular reporting requests and 2. Other reporting requests. The regular reporting requests contain information regularly reported by countries to FAO.
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Library ResourceMatériels institutionnels et promotionnelsmai, 2018Kenya, Malawi, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Ouganda, Afrique du Sud, Guinée, Libéria, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Sénégal, Sierra Leone, Guatemala, Colombie, Kirghizistan, Mongolie, Indonésie, Myanmar, Philippines, Népal, Suède, Belgique, Pays-Bas
Increase the use of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure among CSOs and Grassroots Organizations – Malawi is a country factsheet that provides information on the project “Increase the use of the VGGT among CSOs and Grassroots Organizations”, a general overview of governance of natural resources in the country, and information on activities undertaken in the country in collaboration with local CSOs and grassroots organizations.
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