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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people.
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Displaying 111 - 115 of 167SWE-2012-143: Unintended implications of climate change policies - Large scale land acquisitions
General
Unintended implications of climate change policies - Large scale land acquisitions. Large scale land acquisitions (LLA) are rapidly becoming a controversial political issue, often allegedly driven by anticipations of climate change and/or as unintended ef
Kazakhstan Resilient Agroforestry and Rangeland Management Project
Objectives
Objective: Restore land productivity in targeted degraded landscapes in the Republic of Kazakhstan This project is divided into 2 pillars with the following respective pillar objectives: Pillar 1-WB: aims to pilot agroforestry practices using a community-centered approach and to build government capacity for landscape management and restoration. Pillar 2-FAO: focuses on expanding the use of sustainable pasture management practices and technologies in targeted areas.
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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
Support to the Implementation of the New Land Laws in Malawi
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The project supports the government per their request in awareness raising for national, district and local structures on the provisions of the new land laws, which will enhance their contributions towards the development of their implementation standards and guidelines and the actual implementation. The project will specifically build on support for women targeted with training in advocacy, confidence building and group dynamics to prepare them for the implementation of the new laws. The project will continue to raise awareness of the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT), Principles of Responsible Investment in Agriculture (RAI) and Food Systems and the Right to Adequate Food Guidelines (RtF), which have positively contributed to the enactment of the laws and their understanding in a number of districts.
Technical Assistance to the Land Governance Development in South Sudan
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Within the Food Security Framework Programme and in response to the Land Transparency Initiative launched by the United Kingdom Presidency at the G8, the European Union is leading the country partnership initiative with the Republic of South Sudan.The aforementioned country partnership has the potential to become an effective and much needed vehicle to enhance the coherence of donors support in the area of land governance and land transparency. It aims at supporting South Sudan efforts to str
Adaptation & Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC)
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In this 3-year project, we aim understand how societies, landscapes, ecosystems and Protected Areas have responded to climate change and societal use, to better understand how they may respond in the future. To do this, we will focus on the temporality, spatiality & complexity of interactions and interdependencies of social-ecological systems in north-western Tanzania over the last 300 years. Local livelihoods range from intensive agriculture to livestock herding & hunting-and-gathering, coupled with employment in tourism, conservation, or mineral extraction. Pressures from global climate change, rapid population growth, competing land use (including wildlife conservation), and new 'governmental' regimes pose major threats to livelihoods, their sustainability & resilience to future socio-ecological shocks. We will use a cross-disciplinary approach integrating archaeological, environmental, archival, modern land use & remote sensing data, with collaborative modelling of future land use & land cover change scenarios, to identify past and possible future drivers of change & sources of resilience; generate guidelines for land use planning; build research capacities in Sweden (post-doctoral position) & Tanzania (collaborating researcher) in sustainability studies; strengthen community awareness of and engagement in these issues. Hosted by Uppsala University, the team will involve experienced & junior researchers from Sweden, Tanzania & the UK.