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This publication aims to contribute to an understanding of traditional knowledge and how its application can minimize land degradation and desertification in arid and semi-arid zones and dry sub-humid zones. It is primarily intended to help those following the UNCCD process to take into account the development of traditional knowledge issues in the context of the work of the Committee on Science…

The women of this community suffer the structural problems that affect the rural indigenous sector, where poverty has increased in terms of spread and intensity. Inaddition, they suffer discrimination from other members of the same community, for example from one of the political civil employees concerning tasks such as the distribution of resources sent by the Neuquino State. The most common…

Five years ago, gender mainstreaming was a relatively new concept in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS. Activists, policy makers and legislators who were concerned with securing greater equality between women and men had made many advances in terms of putting women’s rights on the legislative agenda, but integrating a gender perspective into all areas of policy and decision-making was…

One Planet, Many People is intended for environmental policy makers, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, academics, teachers and citizens. This colorful and approachable atlas contains photographs, satellite images, maps and narratives that provide insights into the many ways people around the world have changed, and continue to change, the environment. The main purpose of this…

This issue of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives offers the reader a series of articles and information related to the discussions that will take place in March 2006 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (7–10 March). Needs have changed and there are new dimensions to previous concerns. Gender issues have been integrated into…

Remote sensing is a technique that enables to observe the radiation scattered or emitted by the Earth surface. Satellite-based remote sensing allows regular, repetitive, accurate observations of nearly the whole planet, at various spatial and temporal scales, in several wavelength fields. Such observations render the nature, state, temporal and spatial variations of the properties of the…