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Fertile ground for CLT development in Australia

, 2010
Australia is just beginning to engage with the community land trust (CLT), as that model has been defined and structured in the United States. Australia has long experience with other tenure forms that carry some of the core features of a CLT, however ...
Crabtree-Hayes, Louise (R12100)
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Franklin Area Community Land Trust, Inc [PDF]

, 1987
This report chronicles the establishment of a community land trust to be located in Franklin, New Hampshire (US). The value of a community land trust is that it can provide a vehicle for community involvement in land use decision-making. (Library-derived
White, Peter
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The Effect of Sustainability Information on Consumers' Preferences for Fungus‐Resistant Grape Wine

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The demand for sustainable food production is intensifying the need to reduce the environmental and social impacts of pesticide use in agriculture. In viticulture, where dependence on pesticides is high because grapevines are susceptible to fungal diseases, fungus‐resistant grape varieties (PIWI) offer a promising strategy to reduce chemical ...
Daniel Vecchiato, Andrea Dominici, Fabio Boncinelli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community Land Registration in Kenya, Tracing the Progress Towards Equity, Accountability, and Tenure Security

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences
Context and background Community Land Protection in Kenya gained traction with the enactment of the Community Land Act in 2016. The stakeholders, comprising state and non-state actors, have since made significant progress, registering 15% of community
Robert Koech, Mary Wandia, David Arach, Dorothy Okoth   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Relationship of Trust: Are State ?School Trust Lands? Being Prudently Managed for the Beneficiary? [PDF]

Every state entering the Union in the United States since 1803 received land grants from the federal government for the support of their public schools. Inherent in this federal grant is the fiduciary duty to prudently and effectively manage trust assets
Mark A. Sunderman, Ronald W. Spahr, Samuel Runyan   +2 more
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Crystal Structure Prediction of Inorganic Materials: A Benchmark and Modern Evaluation

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Predicting a crystal’s structure from composition alone is a long‐standing challenge in materials discovery. The CSP180 benchmark of 180 inorganic crystals evaluates thirteen crystal structure prediction algorithms requiring no density functional theory (DFT) against DFT‐based baselines across twelve metrics.
Lai Wei, Sadman Sadeed Omee, Rongzhi Dong, Nihang Fu, Yuqi Song, Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane, Meiling Xu, Ming Hu, Chris Wolverton, Jianjun Hu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Participatory Land Planning, Community Land Trusts, and Managed Retreat: Transforming Informality and Building Resilience to Flood Risk in Puerto Rico’s Caño Martín Peña

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El Caño Martín Peña (CMP), a cluster of eight historically informal neighborhoods in San Juan, Puerto Rico, faces long-standing challenges of inadequate infrastructure, persistent flooding, and displacement pressures.
Ivis García, Leslie Martínez-Román
doaj   +1 more source

Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Para além da propriedade privada: o Termo Territorial Coletivo como instrumento de consolidação e resistência nas lutas populares por terra e moradia no Sul global

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais
This paper discusses the Community Land Trust (CLT) for the permanence and strengthening of organized mobilizations and struggles for access to land and housing in Brazil, exploring its potential for collective land management combined with individual ...
Maria Carolina Maziviero, Tarcyla Fidalgo Ribeiro, Júlia Silveira   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source