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This lesson brief looks at the government's control of private land use in Kenya.
Shalmali Guttal looks at shifts in agriculture policy in Cambodia and Laos as governments aim to transform the structures of their agriculture towards greater commercialization and markets.
In the early 1990s, the Lao government launched a nationwide Land Use Planning and Land Allocation programme in a bid t foster socio-economic development while protecting the environment. However, the programme has long been perceived as having negative impacts on rural livelihoods.
Swidden agriculture is often deemed responsible for deforestation and forest degradation in tropical regions, yet swidden landscapes are commonly not visible on land cover/use maps, making it difficult to prove this assertion.
The GEF and UNCCD Secretariats collaborated on this new book to convey how sustainable land management (SLM) practices are helping shape a sustainable future for people and the planet.
The original French version of this article was prepared at the request of the Nature & Progress (Nature & Progrès) journal and published in November 2011 (No 85) issue in the section Resources : the plundering (Ressources: la spoliation).
O Rio Zambeze é vital para o desenvolvimento de Moçambique, alimentando a vida em uma das planícies tropicais mais produtivas e de maior diversidade biológica em África. Este Rio, com 2.660 km de comprimento drena sete países e tem uma área total de drenagem de 1.570.000 km2.
This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements.