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Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa [PDF]
Although recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda.s nation-wide land tenure regularization programme is of great interest.
Goldstein, Markus, Ayalew Ali, Daniel
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent +2 more
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Who owns the land?: Perspectives from rural Ugandans and implications for land acquisitions [PDF]
Rapid growth of demand for agricultural land is putting pressure on property rights systems, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where customary tenure systems have provided secure land access.
Bomuhangi, Allan +2 more
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Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
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Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We summarize the development of consumer economics and food demand in the Journal of Agricultural Economics over the past 100 years. Even from an early stage, the role of marketing agricultural products in a thriving agricultural sector was recognized within the works published in the Journal.
Jill E. Hobbs, Jutta Roosen
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale fires are becoming increasingly common due to climate change. While conventional wisdom suggests that firsthand experiences with natural disasters foster green coalitions by raising awareness of environmental degradation, we propose an alternative view: Natural disasters can heighten the perceived trade‐off between economic ...
Silvia Pianta, Paula Rettl
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Generation Property: A Consideration of Customary Land Tenure in The Bahamas
The International Journal of Bahamian Studies, 2008 Bahamian land ownership is linked closely with the idea of family. Many groups of kin lay claim to large estates throughout the Bahamian archipelago, and this property becomes a unifying emblem of the kin group as a whole. Generation property unites groups of relatives not only by serving as a symbolic connection to the land but also by providing ...
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Agroecology and Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines transformative adaptation to climate change through the EFICAS Project (Eco‐Friendly Intensification and Climate‐resilient Agricultural Systems) implemented across 12 upland communities in northern Laos from 2014 to 2020.
Jean‐Christophe Castella
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Impacts of land certification on tenure security, investment, and land markets : evidence from Ethiopia [PDF]
Although early attempts at land titling in Africa were often unsuccessful, the need to secure rights in view of increased demand for land, options for registration of a continuum of individual or communal rights under new laws, and the scope for reducing
Ali, Daniel Ayalew +2 more
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From Loss to Transformation? Towards Pluralistic and Politicised Agrarian‐Climate Futures
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how actors perceive and anticipate future states of the world is gaining traction in climate change governance scholarship and related calls for sustainability transformations. However, smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, and local communities, who are expected to bear disproportionate burdens of loss and damage from climate ...
Joel Persson +4 more
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