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… Improving access to forest resources Experiences in informal tenure … ensure local confidence about continued access to land and encourage investment of labour and resources; from the Andaman coast of Thailand, where negotiated land use has benefitted communities and acted as a ‘policy …

… of Lombok, Indonesia 14 Mountains: 24% of the Earth’s Land Surface WCF Theme 3: Biodiversity Loss and Species … areas – global priorities Mountains cover 24% of the land surface of our planet (see page 14). These very diverse … mountain people in developing countries have little or no access to educational opportunities that could improve their …

… and services. This has generally necessitated increasing access to higher incomes such that there has been an … work in progress on the likely impact of climate change on land rent values, or Ricardian rent. Among the other … irreplaceable items (e.g. business and financial records, land titles, passports, school or work and/or items of …

… equity, in natural resource management • Improve women’s access to natural resources and participation in … with a poor or bad EWI cover almost half of the planet’s land and inland water surface. Those with a medium EWI cover a further 43%. Only 8.6% of land area is covered by countries with a fair EWI. Combining …

… (MDGs). Currently, 1.6 billion people in the world lack access to electricity and over 2.5 billion people depend on … and processing. As coconut grows in coastal areas valuable land is not removed from agriculture. Ecosystem preservation … initiative, 2005). Drylands—covering 40% of the world’s land mass and inhabited by only one-third of the world’s …

… of nature; • they were elitist, failing to consider the land rights and sophisticated resource management of … of local populations; prohibited or restricted access to livelihood; break-up of communal lands; collapse of … such as the right to access and cultivate a parcel of land. The attribution of certain individual possession rights …

… will inevitably involve trade-offs among the different land-use types, each of which provides a different mix of … hotspots using five key socioeconomic poverty indicators (access to water, undernourishment, potential population … managed landscapes, where agriculture is often a major land use. Ecosystem services, however, can often highlight …