192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/53 2026-04-21T13:42:21Z 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/88844 Title: Lands of the Poor Authors: Angelo, Bonfiglioli Description: This paper focuses on local environmental governance and decentralized natural resource management. It has overlapping and complementary objectives: to review the lessons learned so far from past and ongoing UNCDF projects; to better understand current thinking and debate on environmental issues; to position UNCDF in the context of the environmental policies adopted by major funding institutions and define its niche; and, finally, to provide directions for further action-oriented exchange and debate. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/88843 Title: Land grab or development opportunity? Authors: Lorenzo, Cotula; Sonja, Vermeulen; Rebeca, Leonard; James, Keeley Description: Over the past 12 months, large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and Southeast Asia have made headlines in a flurry of media reports across the world. Lands that only a short time ago seemed of little outside interest are now being sought by international investors to the tune of hundreds of thousands of hectares. And while a failed attempt to lease 1.3 million ha in Madagascar has attracted much media attention, deals reported in the international press constitute the tip of the iceberg. This is rightly a hot issue because land is so central to identity, livelihoods and food security. 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/88821 Title: Deepening Participation for Social Change Authors: Center for Development Services (CDS), Fantsuam Foundation, Institute for participatory Interaction in Development (IPID):, Knowledge Transfer Africa (KTA), Praxis - Institute for Participatory Practices Description: This book is for all those who try to design and implement projects that aim to incorporate effective beneficiary participation in development projects to realize social change. Yet it is not about how to be a good development practitioner, project planner or implementer. Not everything is covered in this book, nor is everything in some sense new. But we hope that users will find ideas that intrigue and provoke them into trying something unique. You will find this book easy to use. It is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is devoted to a discussion of what participation is, with a focus on behavioural change as well as power and relationships, and why it is important to development in general. The second chapter seeks to describe some of the participatory approaches and practical experiences to outline potentials for development and change. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/88812 Title: Conflict, Social Capital and Managing Natural Resources A West African Case Study Authors: Keith, M. Moore Editors: Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) West Africa Site Description: This book is the product of a 6-year programme involving the population and territory of one decentralized local government unit in West Africa. On one hand, it recounts the efforts of research and development agents engaged in developing and transferring the appropriate social and biophysical technologies and decision support tools for sustainable development. On the other hand, it describes the experience and conditions of the local population seeking a pathway from poverty and food insecurity to a healthy economy and environment 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z