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  1. Library Resource
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    Publication évaluée par des pairs
    septembre, 2012
    Global

    Priorities for protecting ecosystem services must be identified to ensure future human well-being. Approaches to broad-scale spatial prioritization of ecosystem services are becoming increasingly popular and are a vital precursor to identifying locations where further detailed analyses of the management of ecosystem services is required (e.g., examining trade-offs among management actions).

  2. Library Resource
    Who invests in agriculture and how much?

    An empirical review of the relative size of various investments in agriculture in low- and middle-income countries

    Rapports et recherches
    décembre, 2012
    Global

    Investment in agriculture is widely recognized as crucial for economic growth, poverty reduction and improved food and nutrition security. Although several estimates have been made of how much investment is needed in agriculture to achieve production or food security goals, no source to date has attempted to estimate the total amount of public and private investment that is actually made in agriculture. This paper does so using the most up to date and comprehensive international datasets available.

  3. Library Resource
    Articles et Livres
    décembre, 2012
    Global

    In the last ten years or so, the global interest in, and concerns about, the issue of how the world shall provide a growing population with sufficient food, bioenergy and wood raw material has attracted increasing attention. Will land and water resources be enough, how shall they be best managed to achieve increased production and productivity without causing far-reaching negative environmental and social side-effects, will climate change make solutions more difficult, will there be financial means and know-how available to address all challenges and opportunities?

  4. Library Resource
    Resource Contracts
    Ressources et Outils d'entraînement
    janvier, 2012
    Global

    ResourceContracts.org is a repository of publicly available oil, gas, and mining contracts in machine-readable, searchable, open data format. ResourceContracts.org promotes greater transparency of investments in the extractive industries, and facilitates a better understanding of the contracts that govern them. This site provides summaries of contracts and their terms to facilitate understanding of important provisions in the documents.

  5. Library Resource
    Rapports et recherches
    janvier, 2012
    Global

    The Policy on Environmental and Social Sustainability describes IFC’s commitments, roles, and responsibilities related to environmental and social sustainability. The Performance Standards are directed towards clients, providing guidance on how to identify risks and impacts, and are designed to help avoid, mitigate, and manage risks and impacts as a way of doing business in a sustainable way, including stakeholder engagement and disclosure obligations of the client in relation to project-level activities.

  6. Library Resource
    Manuels et directives
    janvier, 2013
    Global

    This guide offers a three-point framework for companies seeking to integrate FPIC principles into their policies and apply them in the operations. This includes


    • complying with the requirements for FPIC under international and national law,


    • implementing FPIC principles throughout the project life-cycle, and


    • extending FPIC processes to all project-affected communities in line with good practice guidance. It also seeks to


  7. Library Resource
    Guidance Note 5 Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement cover image
    Manuels et directives
    janvier, 2012
    Global

    This Guidance Note provides guidance for investors and companies on the requirements contained in the IFC Performance Standards for issues linked to involuntary resettlement as part of project-related land acquisition. It offers guidance to minimise adverse impacts on displaced persons and host communities, and to improve the livelihoods of those affected by resettlement.

  8. Library Resource
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    mars, 2012
    Global

    This document presents a set of guiding principles that promote to responsible contract farming operations. It is intended to serve as guidance for farmers and buyers engaged in contractual relationships, in order to promote good business practices and maintain an atmosphere of trust and respect that is essential if contract farming is to prove effective.

  9. Library Resource
    Facts 33: Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests cover image

    A new tool for Governments and Civil Society Organisations to address land issues

    Documents de politique et mémoires
    janvier, 2013
    Global

    Why are the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests important?

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