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| Principles for responsible agricultural investments that respect rights, livelihoods and resources Many studies show that investment to increase productivity of owner-operated smallholder agriculture has a very large impact on growth and poverty reduction. The fact that investment to bring about such productivity increases in... |
Jan 2010 |
| Bioenergy development - Issues and impacts for poverty and natural resource management This report overviews recent developments in the consumption and production of bioenergy. It examines the main issues and possible economic implications of these developments and assesses their potential impact on land use and... |
Jan 2010 |
| Fundamentals of a sustainable US biofuels policy The United States is investing billions of dollars each year in subsidies and tax breaks to domestic ethanol producers in the hope that biofuels will become a major plank of an energy security and fuel diversification program.... |
Jan 2010 |
| Fodder for war: getting to the crux of the natural resources crisis The balance of State-people landholding is altering, with gradual or sudden surrender of state landlordism over lands which were never government’s to take. Observant forest-related agencies, for example, begin to note how slowly... |
Jan 2010 |
| Sustainable production of second-generation biofuels - Potential and perspectives in major economies and developing countries This study first discusses the global status quo of second-generation biofuels and their potential role in the future energy supply. Next, the study identifies global drivers for the development of this new industry and their... |
Jan 2010 |
| Perceptions on fairness and efficiency of the REDD value chain - Methods and results from pilot analyses in Indonesia and Peru Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) will require a ‘value chain’ that links global beneficiaries to local actions towards high carbon storing land use patterns. The value chain includes: effectively... |
2010 |
| Knowledge sharing for improved food security and better nutrition - Global forum on Food Security and Nutrition - FSN forum The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) was created to strengthen FAO’s capacity in knowledge sharing. The Forum is an online community where members can share experiences, identify resources, provide peer... |
Jan 2010 |
| Meals per gallon - The impact of industrial biofuels on people and global hunger According to the authors of this report, industrial biofuels would not offer a solution to the two main aims of EU biofuel policy – to combat climate change and increase fuel security. Rather, industrial biofuels would fuel... |
2010 |
| Biofuels, land access and rural livelihoods in Tanzania This report investigates and describes patterns of biofuel development in Tanzania. It looks at the spread and scale, crop use and different models of biofuel production through several case studies. It also outlines the... |
Dec 2009 |
| Small scale sustainable farmers are cooling down the earth Farmers -‐ men and women -‐ around the world are joining hands with other social movements, organizations, people and communities to ask for and to develop radical social, economic and political transformations to reverse the... |
Dec 2009 |
