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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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Customary Land Tenure in the LADM

Incorporating customary land tenure relations into Land Information Systems (LISs) presents knowledge modelling challenges arising from the complex and dynamic nature of customs. We present a case study using descriptions from Bronislaw Malinowski’s Coral Gardens and their Magic (1935) to illustrate how some complex land tenure concepts can be ...
Chipofya, Malumbo Chaka, Morales Guarin, J.M., Da Silva Mano, Andre, Lemmen, C.H.J.   +3 more
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Population pressure, land tenure, and tree resource management in Uganda: [PDF]

This study uses aerial photographs and survey data from sixty four parishes in east-central Uganda to identify the factors affecting conversion of woodlands and traditional grazing areas to agriculture.
Otsuka, Keijiro, Place, Frank
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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, Kelly Dorkenoo, Monin Nong, Sodavy Nhong, Van Hai Thi Nguyen   +4 more
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Legal Formalisation of Land Rights and Local Subsistence Security: Matrilineal Land Institutions in Northern Mozambique

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While the legal framework in Mozambique in principle provides equal rights to land for women and men, its underlying assumptions imply that customary tenure is patrilineal, that women get access to land through their relationships with men, while men in ...
Randi Kaarhus
doaj   +1 more source

LAND TENURE AND SOCIOECONOMIC INTERACTIONS [PDF]

The study analyzed the determinants of land tenure insecurity in Uganda using survey data collected by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) during the Policies for Improved Land Management Project in Uganda, 1999-2001.
Bukenya, James O., Ssemambo, James, Mojica, Maribel N.   +2 more
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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
wiley   +1 more source

The Formalization of Land Rights in State Forestlands Under the National Land Policy (Kor Tor Chor) Programme in Nan Province, Northern Thailand

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In rural Thailand, unclear and unregulated property rights of state forestlands have led, for decades, to conflicting land claims between state agencies and villagers. To solve this problem, on the one hand, grassroots activists proposed the communal land title bill so that local people could obtain formal recognition of their land rights and ...
Chusak Wittayapak, Ian G. Baird
wiley   +1 more source

Deforestation and resource disputes in Papua New Guinea

Asian Economic Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Disputes over land and other resources are common in poor areas of Asia and the Pacific, where common pool resources matter for livelihoods, property rights are poorly defined, and state capacity for dispute resolution is low. For example, in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the subject of the current study, one‐quarter of households experience land ...
John Gibson
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa : pilot evidence from Rwanda [PDF]

Although increased global demand for land has led to renewed interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues quickly and at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. The case of Rwanda's nation-wide and relatively low-cost
Goldstein, Markus, Ali, Daniel Ayalew, Deininger, Klaus   +2 more
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