En América Latina, Uruguay se destaca por ser una sociedad igualitaria con un elevado ingreso per cápita, bajos niveles de desigualdad y pobreza y la ausencia casi universal de pobreza extrema. Sin embargo, y pese a la reducción de la pobreza a nivel nacional, algunos habitantes del medio rural continúan siendo pobres y viviendo en situación de aislamiento y vulnerabilidad. Un 47% de los habitantes de las zonas rurales tiene una, o más de una, necesidad básica insatisfecha (FIDA).
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2022Latin America and the Caribbean, Uruguay
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2022Asia
- Remaining intact forests still covered 519 million ha in the Asia-Pacific region in 2020. Of these, 378 million ha are intact contiguous forests. This area is wider than the 140 million ha reported by countries to the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment (2015) as “primary forests.”
- Large-scale remote-sensing assessments of some formations, notably seasonal forest and woodland types, need to be complemented by field surveys to properly identify and map the different primary forest types corresponding to FAO’s definition.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2023Cambodia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchSeptember, 2022Azerbaijan
This country gender assessment (CGA) for the Republic of Azerbaijan was undertaken as part of FAO and national commitments to promote gender equality while integrating a gender perspective into its operations. The resulting CGA report focuses on the intersections of gender, agriculture and rural development, and presents a snapshot of critical gender-based inequalities and their consequences for agricultural production and rural livelihoods in Azerbaijan.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2021Armenia
Armenia is a landlocked country in the South Caucasus. After gaining independence from the former Soviet Union, a very difficult socio- economic situation developed in Armenia, with a current high level of poverty. Land privatization has led to excessive land fragmentation and a small average farm size. Most of the country (87 percent) is mountainous with a vertical zonation of diverse landscapes. Armenia is hotspot of biodiversity in the region, facing human and climate induced land degradation. Water erosion affects most forest and croplands across the country.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchFebruary, 2022Central Asia, Eastern Europe
Land degradation neutrality (LDN) has been defined by the Parties to the Convention as: A state whereby the amount and quality of land resources, necessary to support ecosystem functions and services and enhance food security, remains stable or increases within specified temporal and spatial scales and ecosystems. The present report is an overview of the status of land degradation neutrality (LDN) in the region including a national overview for the 17 programme countries.
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsMay, 2022Southern Africa
From 24 to 26 November 2020, the three organisations comprising the Life After Coal campaign, Earthlife Africa (Johannesburg), the Centre for Environmental Rights and groundWork, met virtually to develop a shared Open Agenda on the Just Transition. We used the Open Agenda for a Just Transition - developed at the National Coal Exchange in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, in July 2019 - as a starting point. We chose to frame it as an agenda because it consists of actions that need to be taken to ensure a Just Transition.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2020Togo
Ce guide en images sur les Directives Volontaires pour une gouvernance responsable des régimes fonciers et le Code Foncier et Domanial du Togo est un outil de renforcement des capacités des formateurs nationaux pour améliorer la gouvernance foncière au niveau des villages du Togo.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchAugust, 2021Mali
Ce guide en image est le fruit d’un travail de contextualisation du guide technique intitulé «Améliorer la gouvernance des terres pastoralies» mené par les deux partenaires Coordination nationale des organisations paysannes (CNOP) et le Centre sahélien de prestations, d’études, d’écodéveloppement et de démocratie appliquée (CSPEDDA) ainsi que leurs partenaires selon un processus participatif.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchAugust, 2021Mauritania
Ce guide en image est le fruit d’un processus participatif et inclusif de renforcement des capacités des Comités régionaux de transhumance qui ont réuni plus de 90 participants (pasteurs/éleveurs, administration territoriales, conseils régionaux, structures techniques déconcentrées et décentralisées des différents départements ministériels clefs, les organisations de la société civile, ainsi que les représentants de projets et les organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) au niveau des Willayas pastorales).
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