A proverb of the Mende (an ethnic group in West Africa who live mainly in Sierra Leone) encapsulates a notion of lifelong learning which goes beyond the rather clichéd phrase “learning from the cradle to the grave”. For the Mende,learning starts in the womb and ends in the tomb. Arguab...
Results: MSPs have contributed to the adoption and implementation of ground-breaking policies and laws, including the National Land Policy of DRC (2021), the Community Land Rights Act (2022) and the National Land Commission Act (2022) in Sierra Leone;...
several lead experts serve in the IUCN Species Survival Commission working groups and other regional networks (e.g.,https://ascaris.org/;https://www.birdlife.org/our-partners-africa/). The lead expert was responsible for
For PODs and associated tools to be utilized effectively, there will need to be interagency knowledge of such tools; this might be a fruitful topic for discussion for the newly formed wildfire commission (https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20211217/fema-usda-and-doi-jointly-establish-new-...
Central America up to the Yucatan Peninsular in Mexico; equatorial Africa from Madagascar and Kenya in the east to Sierra Leone in the west; and Southeast Asia, including Papua New Guinea. To some extent, GRFM project is an international endeavor led by NASDA, with the goal of producing spat...
While the CLA as compared to the National Land Commission Act, does not mention historical land injustices, the collective title it provides for is a useful construct through which to transfer land to community ownership, especially where the claimed lands are presently defined as unallocated or ...
Factors of vulnerability: How large-scale land acquisitions take advantage of local and national weaknesses in Sierra Leone. Land Use Policy 2016, 50, 328–340. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Rasva, M.; Jürgenson, E. Europe’s Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and Bibliometric Analysis. Agriculture ...
19 of 1997 Communal Land Reform Act, No. 5 of 2002 Maori Land Act, 1993 Land 2018, 7, 68 11 of 26 Table 5. Cont. Country Nicaragua Norway Panama P N. Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Portugal Republic of Congo Romania Russia Sierra Leone South Africa South Sudan Spain Swaziland Sweden ...
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