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The crisis has changed the FDI landscape: investments to developing and transition economies surged, increasing their share in global FDI flows to 43% in 2008. This was partly due to a concurrent large decline in FDI flows to developed countries (29%). In Africa, inflows rose to a record level, with the fastest increase in West Africa (a 63% rise over 2007); inflows to South, East and South-East…

Almost all societies acknowledge the concept of state or public landownership in which property rights are vested in a public body on a national, regional or community level. State and public land tenure arrangements define rules for the distribution, use and protection of publicly vested lands. State lands may be used to deliver public services. Authorities or customary rulers may act as…

CN, a quarterly journal, dedicates to the latest advancements in communications and network technologies. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas

World-famous geographer and desert photographer Michael Martin with Elke Wallner produced this remarkable movie to draw the public’s attention to desertification, land degradation and water scarcity. The expressive pictures show the devastating impact of unsustainable land use and climate change. The results are multifaceted in socio-economic terms and range from extreme poverty and forced…

The Man Who Stopped the Desert is a one hour feature doc telling the story of Yacouba Sawadogo, an African peasant farmer who has pioneered a technique that reverses the process of desertification. This is what Dr Chris Reij, a world expert on desertification has to say about Yacouba: “Yacouba single-handedly has had more impact on…conservation than all the national and international researchers…

To produce food, water is consumed by the plants in the field through evaporation and transpiration. The amount of water needed varies with crops and depends from place to place, on local productivity and conditions of available water supply through rainfall or irrigation. Once the product is harvested and becomes available on the market, the water embedded in the product changes status from …