UN reports indicate that area C populations are considered most susceptible to expulsion (displacement from home and from land cultivated for livelihood) and sustenance interruption.
Such disturbances are increasingly common across this vast agrarian country, where as many as 900 million people still depend on the land for their livelihood.
Gates, whose Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $1.7bn to agricultural development, told a meeting in Washington that three-quarters of the world's poorest people rely on small plots of land for their livelihood, and that making them more self-sufficient was money well spent by donors, despite pressures on budgets.
"We are very angry because we have no land for our livelihood anymore," one farmer was quoted as saying.
It's of no use to draw conclusions about inefficient agricultural practices in Panama, for example, if you cannot transfer the information gained from research to the local population that actually depends on that land for their livelihood.
Much of the country is rural, with up to 80% of Afghans rely on the land for their livelihood, says Peter Zahler, assistant director of Asia programs at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
be developing a programme with various stakeholders to help local smallholders and farmers develop their native customary land responsibly, irrespective of whether "it is peatland or not, as we understand that indigenous communities depend on this land for their livelihood.
Wilmar will be developing a programme with various stakeholders to help local smallholders and farmers develop their native customary land responsibly, irrespective of whether "it is peatland or not, as we understand that indigenous communities depend on this land for their livelihood.
