Section 1 will examine current debates around poverty, vulnerability and livelihood issues related to access to natural resources. Section 2 will describe the main features of the sustainable livelihoods approaches and relate them to current thinking about access to natural resources. Section…
This report contains the proceedings of the first stakeholders meeting held by the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project, which aims to develop and validate quantitative reproducible assessment methods to make them widely available and to demonstrate and build capacity for their…
Meeting symbol/code: ARC 02 2
Ce rapport est un résumé des résultats présentés lors de la quatorzième réunion du Sous-Comité ouest et centre africain de corrélation des sols pour la mise en valeur des terres, qui s'est tenue à Abomey, République du Bénin du 9 au 13 octobre 2000. Les discussions ont porté principalement…
Meeting symbol/code: ARC 02 2
La présente publication «Situation des ressources génétiques forestières du Niger» est issue d’un rapport national présenté à l’Atelier sous-régional FAO/IPGRI/CIRAF sur la conservation, la gestion, l’utilisation durable et la mise en valeur des ressources génétiques forestières de la zone…
This report is a shorter version of World agriculture: towards 2015/2030, FAO's latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world's food supplies, nutrition and agriculture. It summarizes the projections, distills the messages and presents them for the generalist. The…
l'eau - source de sécurité alimentaire Journée mondiale de l'alimentation: 16 octobre 2002
In this paper, we develop an empirical model of an agro-pastoral system subject to high climatic risk to test the impact of rainfall variability on livestock densities, land allocation patterns and herd mobility observed at the community level. Also, because grazing land is a common-pool…
As decentralisation and tenure reform sweeps through the Sahel, doubts remain whether communities can look after commonly owned land. Is privatisation or state control the best means of preventing the degradation of resources? Can local communities forge institutional mechanisms to regulate…
