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Reports & Research
June 2016

FAO busca promover prácticas y políticas que apoyen la integración de los sectores agrícolas y productivos (cultivos, ganadería, silvicultura y pesca), que aseguren el manejo responsable y la disponibilidad de recursos naturales a largo plazo. Para ello orienta sus esfuerzos en mejorar y…

Journal Articles & Books
June 2016

This study analyzes the past, current and potential future deforestation resulting from the improvement of the road segment between San Juan Nepomuceno and the 6th route (PR-L1080) in Southeastern Paraguay. For the purpose of the analysis, the study used satellite images to detect deviations…

Journal Articles & Books
June 2016

Women’s land rights are increasingly advocated as an empowerment tool to spur development outcomes. However, empirical evidence of this relationship is limited. In this study we use data from peasant communities in rural Peru to explore the effect of the intra-household allocation of inherited…

Policy Papers & Briefs
May 2016

El fenómeno de “El Niño” ha afectado a la región con efectos cada vez más visibles y dañinos en diferentes áreas del cotidiano vivir, sin embargo hay otros problemas que hacen que la tierra reciba cada vez más daños y cambios. El IPDRS presenta este breve análisis de los efectos “De ‘El Niño’ y…

Institutional & promotional materials
May 2016

El mapa y los datos que se presentan en esta hoja informan sobre el resultado de la actualización de la línea de base del sistema de información comunitaria sobre los nativos de la Amazonia peruana (SICNA) en la región amazónica de San Martín realizada por el Instituto del Bien Común (IBC).  Se…

Policy Papers & Briefs
April 2016

El Instituto para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamérica (IPDRS) continúa con la difusión de artículos de análisis sobre políticas de tierras en los países de la región sudamericana. En esta oportunidad se trata del texto escrito por el reconocido investigador peruano Laureano del Castillo, quien…

Reports & Research
February 2016

El Informe 2015 Acceso a la tierra y territorio en Sudamérica es una nueva iniciativa en el marco de las acciones del Movimiento Regional por la Tierra y el Territorio. Transitamos tres años entre sistematizaciones de experiencias inspiradoras de acceso a la tierra, documentos técnicos,…

Conference Papers & Reports
February 2016

In the last years the Brazilian agricultural frontier is expanding towards the cerrado region, more specifically the region called MATOPIBA, comprised of savannah areas of four different states located in the north and northeastern parts of the country. This research paper aims to show a recent…

Conference Papers & Reports
February 2016

This article shows the case of the cerrado region where because of a lack of clear property rights the land market is completely immobilized.
 
It started with the land occupation of Piauí's cerrado region and the creation of its land market in the seventies by the State…

Conference Papers & Reports
February 2016

Brazil has, on the one hand, strong institutions in various areas, improved social situation and, on the other, the rural land situation is still very precarious, with basic unresolved questions, such as for example, knowledge of what is public and private land, due to the absence of cadaster.…

Journal Articles & Books
February 2016

This paper analyses the climate change in La Plata Basin, one of the most important regions in South America due to its economy and population. For this work it has been used the Meteorological Research Institute (MRI) and the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) atmospheric global model. For…

Reports & Research
January 2016

Around 2.5 billion people – 30 percent of the world’s population – live in the dry areas, which cover more than 40 percent of the world’s land surface. Scarce natural resources, land degradation and frequent droughts severely challenge food production in these areas. Both North Africa (Morocco,…