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  • Legal Instruments for Sustainable Soil Management in Africa

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book presents an important discussion on future options for sustainable soil management in Africa from various perspectives, including national soil protection regulations, the role of tenure rights, the work of relevant international institutions such as the UNCCD and FAO, and regional and international cooperation.This first volume of the new subseries Regional Perspectives to the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 2016

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy includes an important discussion on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that are the basis for the post-2015 development agenda up to the year 2030; the Yearbook focuses in particular on Goal 15, which includes achieving a “land degradation-neutral world.” It also provides a comprehensive and highly ... Read more

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  • International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 2020/2021

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book presents an important discussion on land tenure rights for the effective implementation of sustainable soil management provisions. It investigates a variety of aspects, such as the clash of modern and traditional tenure concepts, forms of illegal or illegitimate land acquisition, and the preconditions for legal and legitimate investments. In addition, the book analyses the challenges to ... Read more

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  • Issues of Governance, Security, and Development in Contemporary Africa

    Governance, security, and development are three critical components of a dialectical nexus that is both dominant and determinant for any objective and fruitful quest for the understanding of the trajectory of a country, a region or, in the case of Africa, a continent from a colonial past to a neocolonial and meta-colonial present, and toward a future of strategic optimal independence and self ... Read more

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  • International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 2019

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book presents an important discussion on the implementation of sustainable soil management in Africa from a range of governance perspectives. It addresses aspects such as the general challenges in Africa with regard to soil management; the structural deficiencies in legal, organizational and institutional terms; and specific policies at the national level, including land cover policies and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 2025

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open-access volume of the IYSLP focuses on sustainable soil management in the face of multiple crises such as climate change, military conflicts, transboundary migration or food security. Contributions in this volume seek to further our understanding on how soils are affected by these crises and of the critical role of soil health in addressing global challenges. The volume also addresses the ... Read more

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  • International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 2022

    Series Book 2022 - International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy
    This open access book presents an important discussion on the interface between sustainable soil management and climate mitigation and adaptation. It investigates a variety of aspects in this context, such as the political and societal consequences for countries in the Global South, an assessment of the outcomes of the UNFCCC Conference of Parties held in Glasgow, appropriate legal instruments to ... Read more

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    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book presents an important discussion on soil and sustainable agriculture from a range of perspectives, addressing key topics such as sustainable intensification, the FAO Voluntary Guidelines, and the crucial role of appropriate tenure rights.This second volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy is divided into four parts, the first of which deals with several aspects of the ... Read more

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  • The Peri-Urban Interface

    Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use

    Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    Land is the integrating component of all livelihoods depending on farm, forest, rangeland, or water (rivers, lakes, coastal marine) habitats. Due to varying political, social, and economic factors, the heavy use of natural resources to supply a rapidly growing global population and economy has resulted in the unintended mismanagement and degradation of land and ecosystems. Sustainable Land ... Read more

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    Governing Our Most Precious Resource

    As the world faces another water crisis, it is easy to understand why this precious and highly-disputed resource could determine the fate of entire nations. In reality, however, water conflicts rarely result in violence and more often lead to collaborative governance, however precarious.In this comprehensive and accessible text, David Feldman introduces readers to the key issues, debates, and ... Read more

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  • Running Out of Time: The Reduction of Women's Work Burden in Agricultural Production

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Based on a broad literature review, this publication discusses rural women's time poverty in agriculture, elaborates on its possible causes and implications and provides insight into the various types of constraints that affect the adoption of solutions for reducing work burden. This paper raises questions about the adequacy of women's access to technologies, services and infrastructure and about ... Read more

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