China has the world's largest population but very limited supplies of water. This conference proceedings examines how China can best used its limited water resources in agriculture.

This report is the first OECD review of Colombia's environmental performance. It evaluates progress towards sustainable development and green growth, with a focus on waste and chemicals management and policies that promote more effective and efficient protection and sustainable use of biodiversity.

This book examines linking policies and farm management to improve water quality.

Food systems around the world face a triple challenge: providing food security and nutrition for a growing global population; supporting livelihoods for those working along the food supply chain; and contributing to environmental sustainability. Better policies hold tremendous promise for making progress in these domains.

While China’s hybrid rural land tenure system has contributed to agricultural development, it is interwoven with rising farmland loss and social conflicts.This book examines the linkages between land tenure, development and governance in the context of China’s development transformation. Drawing on empirical studies, it advocates the exploration of innovative land tenure systems that address the wider determinants: institutions, power, politics and social development. It argues that a land tenure system can only be sustainable when it is compatible with the overall biophysical, social, political and economic conditions. This new institutional lens into the conditions and dynamics of land tenure systems marks a paradigm shift away from those focusing on the narrow meaning of land rights and tenure security strengthening, as these approaches can paradoxically contribute to weaker land and resource governance. Contributing to an enhanced understanding of the challenges China faces in agricultural development and natural resource governance and to the international debates on land tenure reform, this book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and students in development studies, anthropology, sociology, political sciences, law, geography, economics, public administration and other relevant disciplines. The lessons learnt from China also shed light on its global engagement on sustainable development and governance issues.

These Case Studies were written from students at the EBC-university of applied sciences Düsseldorf. The students from 6th semester of the study "International Business Management" have visited the lecture "Case Studies in International Management".In this book Case studies from 8 different companies will be presented. The development of their enterprises, the position in the market and the strategies (Internationalisation, Merger, Sustainability). At the end of each Case Study are questions, so that other students can answer these questions and with the Case Study.

OECD Factbook 2008 is the fourth edition of a comprehensive and dynamic statistical annual from the OECD. More than 100 indicators cover a wide range of areas: economy, population, globalisation, energy, labour, science and technology, environment, education, public finance, and quality of life.