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sustainable development

Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
 

Source: FAO

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Journal Articles & Books
June 2006
Global

La politique du développement doit s'intéresser à toutes les dimensions de la fragilité des structures dans les pays en développement, lesquelles peuvent aller de carences individuelles, comme par exemple en matière de garantie de la sécurité, à l'effondrement des structures de l'État.

Journal Articles & Books
June 2006
Global

Les Directives volontaires adoptées en 2004 à l'appui de la concrétisation progressive du droit à l'alimentation ont eu le grand mérite de faire figurer ce dernier en bonne place à l'ordre du jour de la politique internationale du développement.

Journal Articles & Books
June 2006
Global

L'urbanisation et la transformation économique, c'est-àdire la croissance des secteurs non agricoles, industriels et tertiaires, offrent de nombreuses possibilités d'améliorer les conditions d'existence des pauvres. Le défi essentiel consiste à s'assurer que la population bénéficie plus d'un milieu offrant un cadre favorable à l'évolution des moyens de subsistance et des systèmes économiques.

Journal Articles & Books
June 2006
Global

Les stratégies de lutte contre la pauvreté génèrent des attentes aussi grandes que les espoirs suscités par les « Directives volontaires à l'appui de la concrétisation progressive du droit à l'alimentation ».

Journal Articles & Books
February 2006
Asia

Rural livelihoods are far more multi-locational than is often assumed with many rural people spending a part of the year outside the village working in non-farm occupations. Contrary to early theory, persistent circular or seasonal migration within countries or between neighbouring countries is emerging as the migration pattern of the poor. Nowhere is this more evident than in Asia.

Conference Papers & Reports
February 2006
Global

This volume contains the presentations made at the Eighth International Conference on Dryland
Development. It is hoped that it will serve as a repository of information on the problems and prospects of
sustainable management of dry areas and preventing desertification, and will thus be of interest to those

Land Use and Land Tenure in Mongolia: A Brief History and Current Issues
Conference Papers & Reports
January 2006
Mongolia

This essay argues that an awareness of the historical relation- ships among land use, land tenure, and the political economy of Mongolia is essential to understanding current pastoral land use patterns and policies in Mongolia.

Reports & Research
December 2005
Indonesia

While external forces can take many forms, such as the shock of a natural disaster which destroys productive assets, or the long-term ‘trend’ of consistently declining market prices which limits net incomes, the focus of this research is on the policy and institutional environment both within and outside the local community.

Policy Papers & Briefs
December 2005
Spain
Europe

The present work aims to illustrate how organic agriculture can be a useful tool for the rural development in general, and particularly, in the Valencian Region. Valencian agriculture has some key characteristics that make it different to the agriculture practiced in other Spanish regions.

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