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Eradicating poverty everywhere is more than a moral imperative - it is a practical possibility. That is the most important message of the Human Development Report 1997. The world has the resources and the know-how to create a poverty-free world in less than a generation. The Report focuses not just on poverty of incomes but on poverty from a human development perspective - poverty as…

Founded in the 1970s, the Journal Nomadic Peoples has a long and respected position in the scholarship devoted to peoples who maintain a mobile way of life. The journal's aim is to deal with all types of nomadic peoples, such as pastoral nomads, foragers, peripatetics (gypsies), and so-called sea nomads. Its aim is to provide the scientific community and the general public with new research on…

This interdisciplinary experts workshop, held in Valencia during June 1994, convened remote sensing specialists from various desciplines involved in desertification and land degradation monitoring, but also representatives of potential end-users, e.g. coming from national and supra-national agencies. Desertification undoubtedly manifests itself through changing land surface…

In Bangladesh, vulnerability and adaptation assessments are being performed for the following sectors: agriculture, water resources, and coastal resources. More limited assessments are also being performed for the fisheries and forestry sectors. These sectoral analyses are in the preliminary stages. This chapter introduces the climate change issues in the country, and the four types of climate…

The Platform for Action is an agenda for women’s empowerment. It aims at accelerating the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women 1/ and at removing all the obstacles to women’s active participation in all spheres of public and private life through a full and equal share in economic, social, cultural and political decision-making. …

The UNSO paper maintains that activities to be funded should be primarily community oriented; access to the fund's resources should therefore be restricted to community based organizations, NGO's and local government authorities. The paper also lists a number of initiatives that would qualify for funding: Promoting alternative livelihoods systems to provide incomes in…