Land degradation exacerbates the unique vulnerabilities of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to environmental challenges, such as climate change, flash floods, soil erosion, lagoon siltation, coastal erosion and sea level rise, undermining their economic potential. Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) contributes to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in SIDS, preserving biodiversity and increasing resilience to climate change. Land degradation has a strong negative impact on climate-sensitive sectors like agriculture, water resources management and coastal zone management.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2019Comores, Madagascar, Maurice, Seychelles, Cap-Vert, Antigua-et-Barbuda, Haïti, Jamaïque, Saint-Kitts-et-Nevis, Sainte-Lucie, Saint-Vincent-et-les Grenadines, Trinité-et-Tobago, Belize, Guyana, Suriname, Timor-Leste, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Samoa
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2015Global
2014 was a year in which many citizens around the world lost hope and trust in conventional leaders’ abilities to solve national and global challenges.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2014Global
While nearly 80 percent of food consumed in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia is produced by smallholder farmers, the Bank negates the importance of small-scale farming for sustainable rural development and food security. Family farmers account for 80 percent of all holdings in the developing world, therefore smallholders’ own investments—not FDIs—are the main force sustaining agriculture and should be encouraged.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2016Global
“Land matters” – more than ever! Can land be dealt with like other resources or – in terms of an economic perspective– forms of capital. Or does it attract particular meanings, sentiments, interests, acquisition strategies or social relations?
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 1998Afrique, Amérique du Sud, Amérique centrale, Asie
Land tenure issues are becoming increasingly important worldwide. Problems such as high population pressure, increases in resource degradation, food shortages, transformations of political systems and regional and supra-regional resource conflicts have brought the land issue to the public's attention.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2016Global
Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up over 50 percent of the land on the planet; they legally own just one-fifth. The remaining land remains unprotected and vulnerable to land grabs from more powerful entities like governments and corporations. There is growing evidence of the vital role played by full legal ownership of land by indigenous peoples and local communities in preserving cultural diversity and in combating poverty and hunger, political instability and climate change.
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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, 2012Global
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?
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2014Global
This report explores how the management of land-based biomass production and consumption can be developed towards a higher degree of sustainability across different scales: from the sustainable management of soils on the field to the sustainable management of global land use as a whole. Under business as usual conditions, the growing demand for food and non-food biomass could lead to a gross expansion of cropland in the range of 320 to 850 million hectares by 2050.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2015Global
Without healthy soils, it is not possible to produce healthy food. But soils do not just produce food: they
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