Latin American cities have been leaders in the implementation of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems—a transportation mode often characterised by infrastructure improvements that prioritise transit over other vehicles and allow quick vehicle access.
Oxfam International
Farmers and herders in arid regions of Africa face serious challenges in adapting to climate change and variability. They are highly exposed to climate stresses, especially drought, but adaptation to climate change is far from being a clear-cut biophysical or technical problem: it is also a social challenge.
La Conférence Internationale sur la Région des Grands Lacs (CIRGL) a été organisée suite aux nombreux conflits politiques qui ont marqué la Région des Grands Lacs. La CIRGL comprend onze Etats membres.
This Presidential Decree approves the funding agreement between the Government of Egypt and the International Fund for Agricultural Development on the project of developing farm irrigation in the old lands. The project will be implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation of Egypt, the Agriculture Research Center, the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation as well as other entities. The objective of the project is to improve irrigation networks, improve agricultural productivity, give market support to farmers, as well as enhancing water management.
Communities of Grand Cape Mount, Liberia
March 25th, 2013
The National Food Chain Safety Office is a governmental authority under the direction of the Minister for agrarian and rural development. It is the national authority of the Government, competent for plant production, soil conservation, food-chain control, animal husbandry, forestry, hunting, fisheries, wine production, agricultural administration and fruit brandy control. The territorial executive organs of the authority are the agricultural administrative offices of capital and county-level governmental offices.
According to this Decree the food-chain safety and animal health directorate, the plant and soil protection directorate, the forestry directorate and the agricultural directorate shall act as organs of the capital and county level agricultural government offices. This Decree determines in detailes which other authorities are involved in the administration of each specific matter.
Regulation No. 121 of 2011 lays down rules on the functioning of the central and local land protection and administration departments (LPAD) and units.
European Coordination Via Campesina and Hands Off the Land Network
This Act amends the Asset Recovery Act in various sections concerning, among other things: interpretations; disclosure of information; offences and legal proceedings; powers of the Enforcement Authority, which also concern disclosure of information; and cooperation by the Enforcement Authority and other public bodies in investigations.
Amends: Asset Recovery Act (No. 9 of 2011). (2011-05-13)
Please find links below to a recent Human Rights Watch report and video on the human rights impacts of coal mining in Mozambique. Our report shows that almost 60% of Tete province, site of large coal reserves, has been allocated for approved or proposed mining licenses. The report examines how serious shortcomings in government policy and mining companies’ (Vale, Riversdale, Rio Tinto) implementation uprooted largely self-sufficient farming communities and resettled them to arid land far from rivers and markets.
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WASHINGTON, July 22, 2013—Africa is home to nearly half of the world’s usable uncultivated land, some 202 million hectares that can be brought under the plow. Yet it has the highest poverty rate in the world. The continent’s poor development record suggests it has not leveraged its abundant agricultural land and natural resources to generate shared and sustained growth.
Scaling-Up Progress