tailieunhanh - Environment and Natural Resource Management IFAD’s Growing Commitment

Asthma is a serious public health problem throughout the world, affecting people of all ages. When uncontrolled, asthma can place severe limits on daily life, and is sometimes fatal. In 1993, the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) was formed. Its goals and objectives were described in a 1995 NHLBI/WHO Workshop Report, Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention. This Report (revised in 2002), and its companion documents, have been widely distributed and translated into many languages. A network of individuals and organizations interested in asthma care has been created and several country-specific asthma management programs have been initiated. Yet much work is still required to reduce morbidity and mortality from this chronic disease. In January. | Environment and Natural Resource Management IFADS Growing Commitment Ệ IFAD III INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT This publication has been designed to share IFAD s experience with a broader public. It uses examples of instruments processes and practices selected from IFAD s project portfolio. The theme of IFAD s 2001 portfolio review was the environment and natural resource management. Environment and Natural Resource Management IFAD s Growing Commitment draws extensively on that progress report which was presented at the Seventy-Second Session of the IFAD Executive Board in April 2001. The portfolio review provided a wide range of examples relating to soil conservation watershed management deforestation rangeland management desertification biodiversity conservation and environmental health. Cross-cutting themes include beneficiary and community participation the transfer of environmentally friendly technologies the promotion of environmental policies and the provision of rural finance to take the pressure off natural resources. For more than two decades the International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD has played a significant role in the struggle against rural poverty. Its experience illustrates that one of the keys to successful poverty alleviation is enabling rural poor people to have access to natural resources and to the technologies to use these resources productively and sustainably. Indeed in IFAD s Strategic Framework for 2002-2006 improving equitable access to productive natural resources and technology is one of the three objectives. Seventy-five percent of the world s poor people live in rural areas and make their living largely through the land on which they enterprises and households collectively account for much of the land water and labour engaged in agricultural have a wealth of traditional technical and organizational rural poor contribute greatly to the economic growth of their .