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Displaying 4871 - 4875 of 5073Changing customary land rights and gender relations in the context of HIV/AIDS in Africa1
The effect of prime-age adult death and its consequences on access to land for the survivors has not been fully explored nor incorporated into policy regardless the fact that high adult mortality is now
the lived reality in countries affected by HIV/AIDS, particularly in Africa. This paper explores the
gendered relationships between adult death due to HIV/AIDS and changes in land rights for the
survivors particularly widows. In many African societies, women have traditionally accessed land
Agricultural Recovery and Individual Land Tenure: Lessons from Central Asia
One of the striking features of transition from plan to market in CIS agriculture is the
dramatic shift from the predominance of large corporate farms (kolkhozy and sovkhozy,
generally referred to as agricultural enterprises) to individual or family agriculture based on a
spectrum of small farms. The individual sector, combining the traditional household plots and
the new peasant farms that began to emerge after 1992, accounts for most of agricultural
production and controls a large share of arable land. This is a dramatic change from the pre-
Towards voluntary guidelines on responsible governance of tenure of land and other natural resources - Discussion paper
This discussion paper has been prepared by FAO’s Land Tenure and Management Unit to
seek views and comments on voluntary guidelines on responsible governance of tenure of
land and other natural resources. Weak governance of tenure results in the loss of life and
livelihoods; it deters investment and widespread economic growth and discourages the
sustainable use of natural resources. In contrast, responsible governance of tenure ensures
Integrated Global Observations of the Land (IGOL) - For the Monitoring of our Environment from Space and Earth
The Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS) is a strategic planning process initiated by a partnership of international organizations that are concerned with the observational component of global environmental change issues. It links research, long-term monitoring and operational programmes, bringing together the producers of global observations and the users that require them to identify products needed, gaps in observations, and mechanisms to respond to the needs of the science and policy communities.
Land evaluation
The 70s saw the emergence of worldwide concerns for the capacity of the planet to feed its growing population while ensuring the conservation of its natural resources and the protection of the environment. As a global inventory of soil resources was being conducted under the auspices of FAO and UNESCO, an internationally accepted methodology was elaborated concurrently to assess the potentialities as well as the limits of the world’s land resources for development. The Land Evaluation Framework, which