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Documentos e Resumos de Políticas
Janeiro 2007
Quênia

The World Social Forum in Nairobi in January 2007 was a timely New Year rallying event for Kenyans to revisit the fundamental principles for building a democratic and sustainable society as we prepare for December 2007 elections.The current organizing principles of the institutions that govern us in Kenya are narrow and serve the few at the expense of the many millions of Kenyans that live in a

Janeiro 2007

Thinking about forest management has undergone important changes over the last two decades. These changes have inspired attention to the reform of forest laws on a range of subjects, from forest planning and utilization to governance and trade.

Artigos e Livros
Dezembro 2006
França

Research studies aimed at integrating socio-economic and geo-bio-physical factors are increasingly being used in order to improve our understanding of the causes and effects of land-use change and to support sustainable landscape development.

Publicação revisada por pares
Artigos e Livros
Dezembro 2006
Sudeste Asiático
Ásia
Indonésia

"The Lore Lindu region in Indonesia—as in many forest frontier areas in Southeast Asia—has experienced rapid deforestation due to agricultural expansion in the uplands, at the forest margins. This has resulted in aggravated problems of erosion and water availability, threatening agricultural productivity growth.

Documentos e Resumos de Políticas
Dezembro 2006
Índia

Across South Asia, many rural people use common land to harvest naturally-growing plants, grow crops and feed their livestock. Increasingly this activity is being commercialized as farmers move to sell the produce they obtain. Despite the importance of this development to village people, its overall effect is uncertain and there are fears that it will damage the environment.

Artigos e Livros
Dezembro 2006
Ruanda

Sustainable land use planning involves both policy- and farmer-oriented agricultural land use strategies. In this paper, a spatially and temporally explicit multi-scale decision support system that reveals the biophysical indicators affecting land use choices of these different stakeholders, is explained and demonstrated.

Documentos e Resumos de Políticas
Dezembro 2006
China

The North China Plain is the country's granary: most of wheat and maize is supplied by this region in the northeast of China. Intensity of agricultural production has risen sharply in the last decades and the negative environmental effects like water scarcity, salinization and nitrate contamination have been widely acknowledged.

Relatórios e Pesquisa
Dezembro 2006
Timor-Leste
Fiji
Micronésia
China
Indonésia
Austrália
República da Coreia
Tailândia
Nova Zelândia
Nepal
Itália
Filipinas
Marshall, Ilhas
Singapura
Malásia
Japão
Myanmar
Cambodja
Kiribati
Índia
Butão
Mongólia
Ásia

The initial Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study (APFSOS) drew together the myriad forestry dimensions to provide a coherent description and analysis of the situation and prospects for forestry in the region. The study resulted in 50 working papers on a variety of forestry themes. The formal aspects of the study culminated in a comprehensive main report, published in November 1998.

Artigos e Livros
Dezembro 2006
Qatar
Quirguistão
Iraque
Afeganistão
Azerbaijão
Irã
Jordânia
Chipre
Iémen
Turquia
Turquemenistão
Oman
Usbequistão
Síria
Kuwait
Cazaquistão
Tajiquistão
Bahrein
Geórgia
Arménia
Arábia Saudita
Emirados Árabes Unidos

A thematic study on “Urban and peri-urban forestry” focuses on the potentials and constraints for urban forestry development at regional and sub-regional levels considering the current experience and future prospects of urbanization in the region that is expected to take place in the next 15 years.

Relatórios e Pesquisa
Dezembro 2006
Ruanda

Most of the world’s poor work in the “informal economy” – outside of recognized and enforceable rules.
Thus, even though most have assets of some kind, they have no way to document their possessions
because they lack formal access to legally recognized tools such as deeds, contracts and permits.

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