The objective of the Ugandan government is to make Uganda an upper - middle income country within thirty years. Economic diversification is a key component of that strategy.
During the last few years, there has been a devastating wave of forced evictions of tribal communities from forest land around the country, which needs to be stopped as soon as possible. Unfortunately, recent reports suggest that forced evictions continue in many places, with unrelenting brutality. This note discusses the problem and presents recommendations for immediate action.
A video recording of a whole-day conference held on 18 June 2015. The page begins with text presentations. For the video recordings of the event, scroll down to Webcasts....."Co-Organized by RRI and IUCN, in partnership with the Embassy of France in Washington, DC...
This Decision approves the adjusted master plan on socio-economic development of Thanh Hoa province through 2020, with orientations toward 2030, with the following principal contents: 1.
In the fields of environmental governance and biodiversity conservation, there is a growing awareness that gender has an influence on resource use and management. Several studies argue that empowering women in resource governance can lead to beneficial outcomes for resource sustainability and biodiversity conservation. Yet how robust is the evidence to support this claim?
The Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) supported a scoping study to understand the range of post CFR issues in the central Indian landscape, especially in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha.
Two-thirds of Viet Nam's land area of 33 million ha is mountainous. Almost half of the land area is classified as forest, with one-quarter of Viet Nam's 90 million people living near or in forest lands. Many of them belong to 53 ethnic minority groups. There is a high correlation between the incidence of poverty and forests.
The ASFN and RECOFTC report 'The current status of social forestry in climate change adaptation and mitigation in the ASEAN Region' offers insights on national forestry data and information on forest cover and areas managed by local people in ASEAN countries. These infographics provide snapshots of key data presented in the report in national languages.
In order to develop the original long-term cutting age management standard of Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) plantaions in Nagasaki prefecture, site index curves and taper tables of Sugi plantations were created. 1) Site idex curves were revised up after 40-50 years on stand age, and rate of height growth was not decreased remarkably.
El presente Decreto, considerando que la racionalización y simplificación del ordenamiento jurídico es una de las principales herramientas para asegurar la eficiencia económica y social del sistema legal y para afianzar la seguridad jurídica, y que constituye una política pública gubernamental la simplificación y compilación orgánica del sistema nacional regulatorio, expide el Decreto Único Reg
The paper highlights that land degradation in India has been approaching a crisis level in spite of repeated emphasis on wasteland development and existence of apex level organisations for that purpose. One reason has been the policy emphasis on ownership and control rather than appropriate management of the land.
Le présent arrêté détermine les règlements d’urbanisme et de construction au Rwanda.