Land

Recientes informes internacionales importantes han puesto de relieve el impacto alarmante de los sistemas de producción de alimentos sobre el cambio climático, las tierras y la biodiversidad. Este informe muestra que existe un Punto de encuentro entre los sectores agrícola y de la conservación para una acción mutuamente beneficiosa, y un gran potencial para la adopción generalizada de prácticas agrícolas sostenibles que puedan satisfacer nuestras necesidades de alimentos, piensos, fibras y energía.

Les principaux rapports internationaux récents ont mis en évidence l’impact alarmant des systèmes de production alimentaire sur les changements climatiques, les terres et la biodiversité. Ce rapport montre qu’il existe un terrain d’entente entre les secteurs de l’agriculture et de la conservation pour une action mutuellement bénéfique, ainsi qu’un grand potentiel d’adoption généralisée de pratiques agricoles durables, susceptibles de répondre à nos besoins en nourriture, en aliments pour animaux, en fibres et en énergie.

Recent major international reports have highlighted the alarming impact of food production systems on climate change, land and biodiversity. This report shows that common ground between the agriculture and conservation sectors for mutually beneficial action exists, and that there is great potential for widespread adoption of sustainable agricultural practices that can meet our needs for food, feed, fibre, and energy.

We all rely on a familiar set of indicators - interest rates, unemployment, inflation, the Dow Jones index, and GDP, for example - to gauge the performance of national economies. No such measures are currently available to describe the environment. This book lays out a blueprint for periodic reporting on the condition and use of ecosystems in the United States.

The Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI) is an Africa-wide environmental-governance research and training program focusing on enabling responsive and accountable decentralization to strengthen the representation of forest-based rural people in local-government decision making. This Working Paper series will publish the RFGI case studies as well as other comparative studies of decentralized natural resources governance in Africa and elsewhere that focus on the intersection between local democracy and natural resource management schemes.

Everyone has a relationship to land, but not everyone's right to land is secure. The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) recognizes that conventional ways of managing land are not realistically going to meet the needs of millions of people. This book features the “land tools” that GLTN  has developed – practical ways to solve problems in land administration and management. The emphasis is on practicality; users should be able to take a land tool and apply it (or adapt it) to their own situation.