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UNDP, 2007-10-16 - Sustainable Land Management: The why and how of mainstreaming gender in Sustainable Land Management
UNDP BDP Environment and Energy Group, 10 pages
Part of UNDP's new series 'Gender Mainstreaming: a Key Driver of Development in Environment & Energy'. This guide looks atWhy is gender relevant
to policymaking and
programming in sustainable
land management?
Land degradation, which affects more than 900 million people worldwide and as much as ...
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Maryam Niamir Fuller, 2007-09-04 - KEYNOTE SPEECH: The Global Social and Ethical context of Sustainable Land Management
UNDP/GEF, 5 pages
UNDP's keynote speech at the International Forum, "Soils, Society & Global Change: Celebrating the Centenary of Conservation and Restoration of Soil and Vegetation in Iceland", 31 Aug – 4 Sept 2007, Selfoss, Iceland.
Main message: Land degradation is a global problem. There is a growing recognition ...
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UNDP, 2007-08-31 - Mother Earth: Women and sustainable land management
UNDP/BDP Environment and Energy Group and Gender Unit, 14 pages
This publication, part of UNDP's gender mainstreaming guidance series, provides practitioners and policy-makers with practical guidance on the mainstreaming of gender considerations in sustainable land management (SLM). UNDP believes that such approaches will not only provide women with a platform to ...
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Drylands Development Centre, 2007-08-31 - Fact Sheet August 2007: Why the Drylands?
Drylands Development Centre, 3 pages
About 2.4 billion people worldwide live in the drylands, which make up over 40% of the potential arable land of the globe. Of these about 1 billion depend directly on the natural resources of the drylands for their livelihoods. Life in the drylands can be difficult, but these lands are not areas of ...
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Drylands Development Centre, 2007-08-31 - Fact Sheet: What is the Drylands Development Centre?
Drylands Development Centre, 2 pages
This factsheet provides a description of the UNDP Drylands Development Centre (DDC) and its areas of focus. The DDC is a centre of excellence dedicated to working with people to fight poverty in the drylands. The DDC operates through UNDP’s network of country offices: there is an office in every developing ...
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Drylands Development Centre , 2007-08-30 - Fact Sheet: Governance of Land Resources and Drylands Development
Drylands Development Centre , 4 pages
This fact sheet stresses the importance of land governance and explains how lack of access to natural capital - land constrains development opportunities at the level of the individual and at national scale. It also highlights the major challenges of governance of land resources in the drylands and ...
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Drylands Development Centre , 2007-08-30 - Fact Sheet: An Integrated Development Programme for the Drylands
Drylands Development Centre , 4 pages
This fact sheet provides information on the Integrated Drylands Development Programme (IDDP). The framework through which support for drylands developed is delivered to UNDP programme countries. It highlights the three key IDDP themes, mainstreaming of drylands issues into national development and planning ...
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Drylands Development Centre, 2007-08-30 - Working With People to Fight Poverty in the Dry Areas of the World - Activity Report 2002 - 2006
Drylands Development Centre, 66 pages
This report covers the period 2002 – 2006. It highlights the support provided by the UNDP Drylands Development Centre (DDC) through the Integrated Drylands Development programme (IDDP) to its partner countries for the implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. It provides a synopsis ...
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Drylands Development Centre, 2007-08-15 - Implementing the Millennium Development Goals in the Drylands of the World
Drylands Development Centre, 56 pages
This paper highlights the economic and ecological potential of drylands, as well as the vast information accumulated over the last few decades on their strategic importance to national development and meeting the MDG targets. In view of this, and taking into account the risk of marginalization threatening ...
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UNDP Drylands Development Centre, 2007-03-21 - Partnerships to fight Poverty through Sustainable Land Management:
UNDP Drylands Development Centre, 42 pages
The overarching goal of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is to promote sustainable development and in particular to contribute to the global goal of halving poverty by 2015. For UNDP, poverty is more than a lack of what is necessary for material well being. It is the denial of choices ...
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