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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022 IntroductionThe shea ecosystem provides critical ecosystem services. However, rapid peri-urbanization threatens the governance of peri-land and shea tree resources and poses multiple risks to urban and peri-urban households.
Elias Danyi Kuusaana
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Land, 2021 The struggles of women to access and hold landuse and other land property rights under the customary tenure system in peri-urban communal areas is increasingly becoming a cause for concern.
Emaculate Ingwani
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Towards Responsible Consolidation of Customary Lands: A Research Synthesis
Land, 2019 The use of land consolidation on customary lands has been limited, though land fragmentation persists. Land fragmentation on customary lands has two main causes—the nature of the customary land tenure system, and the somewhat linked agricultural system ...
Kwabena Asiama +2 more
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Analyzing the Connection between Customary Land Rights and Land Grabbing: A Case Study of Zambia
Land, 2023 Since the global crises in the 2000s, many foreign and domestic actors have acquired large tracts of land for food and biofuel crop cultivation and other purposes in Africa, often leading to the displacement of the African people living on customary land.
Yuh Jin Bae
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Heliyon, 2022 This study investigated the land tenure system, harvesting time and marketing behaviour of cashew farmers in Ghana. Primary data was compiled from 120 cashew farmers, and the multinomial probit was used to assess the determinants of cashew marketing ...
Richard Kwasi Bannor +5 more
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PlaNext, 2018 Zoning regulation is considered as a tool used by government to control developments to ensure sustainability. In Ghana where about 80% of lands are held under customary land tenure systems, implementation of residential standards, which is a government ...
Eunice Offei +2 more
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Ambiguous Outcomes of Returnees’ Land Dispute Resolution and Restitution in War-Torn Burundi
Land, 2022 Redressing land dispossession in the aftermath of violent conflicts is daunting and complex. While land dispute resolution and restitution are expected to promote return migration, this outcome is contingent upon the changing social, economic and ...
Rosine Tchatchoua-Djomo, Han van Dijk
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The role of venture‐financed startups in innovation for US agriculture
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract To evaluate the role played by startup companies in the innovation ecosystem of US agriculture, we compile a unique dataset of 6024 new entrants founded 1987–2019 that details their financing lifecycles, annual economic performance, and patenting activities.
Gregory D. Graff +2 more
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Implications of Incorporating Customary Land Tenure Data into a Land Information System [PDF]
Australian Surveyor, 1995 This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the Trans Tasman Surveyor © 1995 Taylor & Francis.
Mele E. T. Rakai, Ian P. Willlamson
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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