Population, land tenure, and natural resource management: the case of customary land area in Malawi [PDF]
This paper uses cross section-time series data on 57 communities in Malawi to determine statistically the factors determining changes in land use, tree cover, and crop yield.
Otsuka, Keijiro, Place, Frank
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Harnessing Customary Land Tenure for Sustainable Land Resource Management in Rural Nigeria [PDF]
Customary land tenure is the primary form of management of rural land in Nigeria. Although other land tenure systems operate alongside it, it primarily regulates the ownership rights and the appropriation of land resources in the rural settings.
Salawu, Busari Morufu
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Right to Food in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Challenges, Policies, and Sustainable Strategies
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the multifaceted issue of food security in Sub‐Saharan Africa and the critical importance of upholding rights to food in the region. It explores the challenges posed by food insecurity, analyzes existing policies and interventions, and proposes sustainable strategies to enhance food security.
Helen Onyeaka +6 more
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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 +5 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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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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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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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 +2 more
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The Politics of traditional-federal state formation and land administration reform in Ghana: 1821-2010 [PDF]
, 2012 Imagine a democratic state in Africa where the Presidential-Executive and Parliament are constitutionally restrained from fundamentally reforming the institutions of land ownership and administration without the legal consent of traditional rulers ...
Appiah, Daniel
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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 +3 more
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