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This paper provides an overview of what climate change will mean to subsistence and smallholder farmers in Lesotho, and how the capacity for climate change adaptation in agriculture can be strengthened, focusing on selected areas of crops, livestock and forest-based livelihood systems, to stabilize and improve yields. We draw on experiences and lessons learned from a pilot FAO/Government of Lesotho project, and make recommendations as to how on-the-ground community-based responses could be scaled up to other parts ofthe country, and possibly to other vulnerable countries across southern Africa.
The use of renewable natural resources and watersheds in Ecuador can be characterized largely spontaneous or based on the needto use a particular resource, but not for a planned process, although this is changing now. In the Napo River Basin, which is the mostimportant means of transportation in the Ecuadorian Amazon, it is possible to identify concrete actions for land management with thepurpose optimizing planning and fostering development.
This publication is addressed to UN staff and nationals working on the coordination and execution of emergency activities to make them aware of the importance of dealing with land tenure rights and property issues for both disaster risk reduction including preparedness and mitigation measures, and the efficiency and effectiveness of post-disaster responses. FAO has selected four country case studies that address the issue of land tenure in Mozambique, Bangladesh, Philippines and Ecuador. The analysis helps improve understanding of land tenure in the context of natural disasters.
This publication contains national briefs analysing land tenure and natural disasters that have occurred in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Philippines, Ecuador and Honduras. The briefs describe land tenure in each country as well as the socioeconomic conditions of the people affected by the natural disaster. The publication identifies lessons learned which are helpful in natural disaster management and prevention and mitigation programmes in the six countries. The publication is the result of a joint initiative between FAO, UN-HABITAT, Early Recovery Cluster of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee working on emergency operations, and the Global Land Tools Network.





