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The new UN 2030 Agenda is an inclusive, integrated framework of 17Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) spanning economic, environmental and social development. By achieving this Agenda, no one will be left behind. Libraries are key institutions to help achieve the Goals. Public access to information enables people to make informed decisions that can improve their lives. Communities that…

Libraries make an important contribution to development. The purpose of this toolkit is to support library institutions and associations and other civil society organisations to advocate at the national and regional level for the inclusion of access to information as part of the post-2015 development agenda.

This study presents some lessons from a selection of IUCN interventions in dryland areas that have adapted to a greater or lesser extent to the conditions of drylands, notably focusing on water management to deal with scarcity and variability. The study is intended as a means of capturing lessons learned from these interventions on the challenges and opportunities for improving water development…

The report’s findings suggest that policies and programmes of governments and the development partners could include a stronger focus on the development of peri-urban areas and smaller cities and towns. The rapid pace of change in peri-urban areas throws into relief any underlying issues in land tenure arrangements, land administration/planning and governance, such as overlapping mandates,…

Over the past several years, GRAIN staff and allies in different regions have been tracking media and other information sources on a daily basis and posting reports on land grab developments to the open-publishing platform farmlandgrab.org. GRAB used this website as the basis for constructing this dataset, which holds 491 land deals covering over 30 million hectares spanning 78 countries.2 This…

“Land matters” – more than ever! Can land be dealt with like other resources or – in terms of an economic perspective– forms of capital. Or does it attract particular meanings, sentiments, interests, acquisition strategies or social relations? What is particular to the production and dissemination of knowledge and capacity building about “land”? Is the influence of donor agencies,…