| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| A geospatial framework for the analysis of poverty and environment links |
| This report explains how georeferenced information can be used to bring greater precision to the understanding of spatially-related factors underlying poverty and food insecurity and discusses the role of Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping System (FIVIMS) in promoting greater use of geospatial information.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/dim_en3/en3_061201_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/dim_en3/en3_061201_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/dim_en3/en3_061201_es.htm |
| Arabic: http://www.fao.org/sd/dim_en3/en3_061201_ar.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| New publication: Choosing a method for poverty mapping |
| The purpose of this publication is to discuss poverty and food-security mapping in terms of relevance and available options for analysis, policy design and implementation in the rural sectors of developing countries.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2003/EN0602_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2003/EN0602_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2003/EN0602_es.htm |
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| Environment - Conventions & agreements |
| Environment - Policy and management |
| Sustainable Development - General |
| Challenges and opportunities for the World Summit on Sustainable Development |
| "Challenges and opportunities for the World Summit on Sustainable Development: FAO's perspective" was prepared
as a contribution to the World Summit on Sustainable
Development, Johannesburg, 26 August-4 September 2002. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/wssd/docs/ChallengesandOpportunityfinal.doc |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Sustainability: the challenges in agriculture, forestry and fisheries |
| Translating the concept of sustainable agriculture and rural development into strategies and action requires governments to confront the challenges posed by population growth, food security and poverty, the limited availability of agricultural land, and issues related to national policies and international trade. This article lists the main challenges in agriculture, forestry and fisheries extract... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPre0002.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Rural household income strategies and interactions with the local institutional environment: a methodological framework |
| This article reports on a research programme on rural household income strategies and interactions with the local institutional environment. Its focus on both the household and local institutions explores the income strategies of rural households and the manifold ways in which households - and members of the household - are linked to different institutional settings. The purpose of this pilot proj... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/ROdirect/ROan0021.htm |
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| Institutions - Public institutions |
| Pastoral institutions and approaches to risk management and poverty alleviation in Central Asian countries in transition |
| This report synthesises the results of work by three national teams - in Mongolia, China and Kyrgyzstan - working with FAO support on institutional approaches to pastoral risk management in Central Asia, within the wider context of poverty alleviation and food insecurity.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/ROdirect/ROan0018.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Rural poverty: population dynamics, local institutions and access to resources |
| This discussion paper analyses two examples of changing
institution-resource access relationships in Africa and Latin America. The Africa
case highlights the resource endowments and problems associated with the
participation of individuals in multiple institutions, whereas the Latin America
case focuses on the changes in a sin... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/ROdirect/ROan0016.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Institutions - Public institutions |
| Decentralization process and traditional powers: typologies of policies |
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| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/frdirect/ROan0014.htm |
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| Institutions - Public institutions |
| Options for further reform in China's farmland system |
| The contents of the article were extracted from "Report of a pilot study on poverty, land abandonment and rural institutions", produced by the Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, People's Republic of China, in collaboration with the FAO Rural Development Division. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0012.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Institutions - Public institutions |
| The state and the market: The missing link |
| This paper argues that the debate over state versus markets is leading to another discussion: the interaction between the market and the institutions of both civil society and the state. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0010.htm |
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