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Emergent neo-customary land tenure and non-indigene smallholders’ access to farmlands in peri-urban Ghana

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Land dispossession within the emerging neo-customary land tenure system is not a novel phenomenon in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, the landholding systems across SSA are as diverse as the societies themselves.
Ibrahim Abu Abdulai
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Indigenous Relational Thought and Climate Crisis Response: Rethinking Human‐Environment Relations Beyond Technocratic Governance

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is frequently framed as a technical problem of emissions, risk, finance, adaptation planning, and institutional coordination. This critical integrative review, supported by scoping‐informed searching and transparent eligibility and synthesis procedures, examines how selected Indigenous relational literatures can deepen climate ...
Jacob Kwakye, Basin Nawai Sumaila
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Land access and livelihoods in post-conflict Timor-Leste: no magic bullets

International Journal of the Commons, 2015
In Timor-Leste, customary institutions contribute to sustainable and equitable rural development and the establishment of improved access to and management of land, water and other natural resources.
Simon P.J. Batterbury, Lisa Palmer, Thomas Reuter, Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho, Balthasar Kehi, Alex Cullen   +5 more
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Does land tenure insecurity discourage tree planting?: evolution of customary land tenure and agroforestry management in Sumatra [PDF]

It is widely believed that land tenure insecurity under a customary tenure system leads to socially inefficient resource allocation. This article demonstrates that land tenure insecurity promotes tree planting, which is inefficient from the private point
Otsuka, Keijiro, Tomich, Thomas P., Suyanto, S.   +2 more
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Determinants of Community Resilience: A Multi‐Level Synthesis of Empirical and Conceptual Evidence

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community resilience research remains fragmented across disciplines, with limited integration of empirical evidence and conceptual scholarship. This study addresses this gap through a directed content analysis of 48 empirical case studies and 39 conceptual and review publications from diverse geographical and hazard contexts.
Anamol Neupane, Seweryn Zielinski, Iroda Mukhammadieva   +2 more
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Governing land and landscapes: Political ecology of enclosures and commons

Canadian Food Studies, 2015
Most of the world’s food is still produced by small farmers, many of whom remain organized though customary land tenure. Customary tenure is a general term for specific cultural ways in which farmers embedded in ecological contexts allocate rights and ...
Harriet Friedmann
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Women's land rights in the transition to individualized ownership [PDF]

This study explores the impact of changes in land tenure institutions on women's land rights and the efficiency of tree resource management in Western Ghana.
Payongayong, Ellen, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Otsuka, Keijiro, Aidoo, J. B.   +3 more
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Resource reallocation across successive systemic innovations: How Rolls‐Royce shaped the evolution of the turbojet, turboprop, and turbofan

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Despite the importance of resource reallocation in shaping a variety of strategic outcomes, strategy scholars have paid only limited attention to the processes by which firms reallocate their resources across successive systemic innovations.
Gino Cattani, Mariano Mastrogiorgio, Giuseppe Carignani   +2 more
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The role of tenure in the management of trees at the community level: theoretical and empirical analyses from Uganda and Malawi [PDF]

This paper examines the effects of tenure on tree management at a community level. First, several important conceptual issues arising from this particular meso-level focus are discussed.
Otsuka, Keijiro, Place, Frank
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Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

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Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
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