The position paper provides an updated insight on the role that urban agriculture can play in pursuing the Millennium Development Goals and more specifically MDG 1 and 7, related to poverty reduction, food security, and environmental sustainability. It intends to raise awareness and inform decision makers and planners of the different aspects of urban agriculture, which entails a broad range of activities, related to the food production and distribution chain, within natural resources planning and use including urban and peri-urban forestry.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2008Global
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2007Global
This brief considers progress made in understanding gender and development between the 1982 and the 2008 World Development Report. The authors acknowledge achievements in valuing women's dynamic roles in agricultural productivity and development in general, but also point to areas in which the most recent report fall short, including an acknowledgement of the lack of policy recommendations for deeper social and structural inequalities.
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HPG Background Briefing, June 2007
Documents de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2007AfriqueThis background briefing reports on a study of land access for returnees in Rwanda, and the impacts of land access policies in the post-conflict period. It also seeks to understand better the roles international humanitarian agencies and NGOs have played, and how their performance can be improved. It is not suggested that Rwanda is typical, but rather that the centrality of land issues there has thrown up a revealing set of broader questions.
The briefing ends with the following lessons;
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2007Cambodge
Slow agricultural development has restrained economic growth and poverty alleviation in Cambodia. The country’s volatile history has left a legacy of weak tenure security and large areas of underutilized land. This study estimates the impact of access to land on poverty in a logistic regression framework using household survey data. Increased access to land is shown to significantly lower the risk of household poverty. Tenure security, land improvements and irrigation strengthens this effect.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2008Zambie
Land Policy Options for Development and Poverty Reduction
Civil Society Views for Pro-poor Land Policies and Laws in Zambia
January 2008
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2008Zambie
Land Policy Options for Development and Poverty Reduction Civil Society Views for Pro-poor Land Policies and Laws in Zambia
2008
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2008Zambie
Land Policy Options for Development and Poverty Reduction Civil Society Views for Pro-poor Land Policies and Laws in Zambia
2008
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesDocuments de politique et mémoiresmai, 2007Afrique australe
Introduction: "Since its independence in 1975, and most notably in the last decade, Angola has struggled to create a legal framework adequate to address the complex issues relating to the country’s land. In 2004, the country enacted a new land law1 that sought to strengthen perceived areas of weakness in prior legislation. The new law delineated and expanded a range of land rights available by concession and recognized some measure of traditional land rights.
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Strategy at a glance
Documents de politique et mémoiresavril, 2007Afrique du SudA four page summary of a comprehensive 14 chapter base document highlighting strategy essentials
- Reframing land reform as a joint programme of government
- Area based integrated planning
- Providing comprehensive support services
- Securing rights, enhancinglivelihoods and enabling development
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Strategy at a glance
Documents de politique et mémoiresavril, 2007Afrique du SudA four page summary of a comprehensive 14 chapter base document highlighting strategy essentials
- Reframing land reform as a joint programme of government
- Area based integrated planning
- Providing comprehensive support services
- Securing rights, enhancinglivelihoods and enabling development
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