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Women who become involved in UN world conferences are making a decision to participate in global governance. They are staking out a sphere of influencde over the setting of international priorities, efforts which ultimately affect national and local policy-making. The process of setting and implementation policy is but one type of activity in which women advocates and organizers are…

Thesis (doctoral) --Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 1995 Contents: Map 1. Vegetation formations in 1991/92 and desertification in the Butana-region map 2. Vegetation formations in 1992/1993 and desertification in the Butana-Region map 3. Geomorphology and morphodynamics of the Butana.

The land is our most valuable resource. It is indeed much more than this: it is the means of life without which we could never have existed and on which our continued existence and progress depend. The resources of the land are neither inexhaustible nor indestructible, as many men and women have already found to their cost. Resources that had taken many millions of years to accumulate have been…

Human Development, if not engendered, is endangered. That is the simple but far-reaching message of Human Development Report 1995.The Report analyses the progress made in reducing gender disparities in the past few decades, highlighting the wide and persistent gap between women's expanding capabilities and limited opportunities. It introduces two new measures for ranking countries on a global…

UNEP officials have called for $480 billion to be spent on 'anti-desertification' measures over the next twenty years.The claim, used by officials at UNEP in support of their demands for funds, that the Sahara is expanding, inexorably southwards, is based on evidence of dubious scientific validity. More rigorous scientific studies show no such desert encroachment. It is untrue that peasants and…

The present volume is part of a series of Land Tenure Studies produced by FAO’s Land Tenure Service of the Rural Development Division. Land tenure plays a vital role in achieving sustainable rural development. Increasing technological change and economic integration are requiring policy makers, planners, development experts and rural producers to re-examine the institutional arrangements used to…