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Janeiro 2003
Quênia
Burkina Faso
Marrocos
África do Sul
Mali
China
Mauritânia
Índia
Senegal
Sudão
Níger
Oceânia
Sudoeste Asiático
África subsariana
Norte de África
Ásia Oriental
Ásia Meridional

With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia.

Janeiro 2003
Botswana
África subsariana

Mineral wealth often detracts from, rather than enhances, the economic performance of developing countries, a phenomenon known as the “resource curse”. The need to finance basic government expenditure, as well as rent-seeking behaviour by individuals and interest groups, puts pressure on developing country governments to spend mineral revenues rather than reinvest them.

Janeiro 2003
Índia
Sudão
África subsariana
Ásia Meridional

This information paper illustrates sustainable dryland management practises in communities vulnerable to climate change with case studies in India and the Sudan.In both cases the adaptation programme is presented, including infrastructural strategy and social involvement, followed by results of the programme, subsequent impact on the community and examples of further achievements and successes

Janeiro 2003

This paper starts from the optimistic assumption that the policies required for environmentally sustainable economic development are known but difficulties surround their implementation. The paper argues that in the low-income countries differences in the natural resource endowment are an important and hitherto neglected cause of tardy environmental policy improvements.

Artigos e Livros
Dezembro 2002
Taiwan

Thorough land use planning in a slope land watershed requires careful consideration of both natural and social conditions. A modified "simple-accurate" method was used to estimate a land use potential value for each terrain unit of a slope land watershed in Taiwan. Soil loss estimates based on erosion modeling served as a guide for determining the most suitable land use type.

Artigos e Livros
Dezembro 2002
Burkina Faso
Bangladesh
Honduras
Nepal
Zâmbia
Zimbabwe
Peru
Guatemala
Reino Unido
China
Benim
Malawi
França
Colômbia
Quênia
Filipinas
África do Sul
Lesoto
Madagáscar
Nicarágua
Índia
Senegal
Brasil

This conmpendium of recent sustainable development initiatives in the field of agriculture and land management has been developed as a supporting document for the Task Manager's Report on the Land and Agriculture Cluster for Chapters 10, 12 and 14 of Agenda 21.

Artigos e Livros
Dezembro 2002
África

L'Afrique contribue pour 7 pour cent seulement aux émissions mondiales de gaz à effet de serre. Soixante-dix pour cent des émissions du continent proviennent du changement d'usage des terres, essentiellement de la déforestation. Par contre, le continent africain est potentiellement le plus exposé aux conséquences négatives des changements climatiques.

Artigos e Livros
Novembro 2002
Quênia

Throughout this pocket size booklet, Land Reform Volume 4, KLA proposes that collectively as a nation, and especially during this time of the constitutional review process. The principles outlined be embraced with the purpose of providing women a deliberate opportunity to engage in decision-making as regards land-use,management and ownership.

Relatórios e Pesquisa
Agosto 2002
África do Sul
África

Argues that sustainable development in 21st century South Africa will never be achieved without a radical assault on the structural underpinnings of poverty and inequality inherited from 3 centuries of oppression and exploitation.

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