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Current requirements in the areas professional qualifications and skills development call for the implementation of new analytic and responsible learning-teaching techniques focused on specific objectives. It is therefore necessary to design learning situations in which trainees/students are permitted and encouraged to: - draw up their own objectives - develop diverse learning…

Vocational training curricula are intended to function as a link between work positions (occupational skills-qualification requirements) and the qualification-skills structures provided by those institutions or authorities offering vocational training. All vocational training curricula should offer sufficient direction to apprentices to enable them to: - comply with the demands of…

Development of this white paper follows Decision 17/COP.9 of the ninth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 9), requesting the CST to develop proposals, for consideration at COP 11, for the refinement of the set of the provisionally accepted impact indicators being developed to “…measure progress on strategic objectives 1, 2 and 3 of the 10-year strategic plan and framework to enhance…

Wind erosion—alone or combined with other physical or socioeconomic causes—is a mechanism that may induce desertification, i.e. severe or irreversible degradation of water and soil resources. Now that this phenomenon is better understood, the model of the 1970s based on three distinct stages (causes, mechanisms, consequences) has been discarded, in view of the many feedbacks and insidious links…

The Land Tenure Journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access flagship journal of the Climate, Energy and Tenure Division (NRC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The Land Tenure Journal, launched in early 2010, is a successor to the Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, which was published between 1964 and 2009. The Land Tenure Journal is a…

The Land Tenure Journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access flagship journal of the Climate, Energy and Tenure Division (NRC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The Land Tenure Journal, launched in early 2010, is a successor to the Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, which was published between 1964 and 2009. The Land Tenure Journal is a…