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Community biocultural mapping reveals historical occupation and enables defense of African rainforests. [PDF]

Ambio
Massaha IDBB, Koto SE, Walters GM, Mabo HA, Makala F, Azeon PN, Mabo J, Mandoumilele PN, Hendje JP, Djia DB, Betotobeya HB, Ndongoabendje M, Maïdji E, Maloumambomba S, Koumokoukou D, Kotomoukaye G, Mbengoy F, Bobouagno B, Bopounda G, Ngouba DD, Akouboua Y, Haya M, Bleck SM, Djabouemi G, Bobeloubouangoy AJ, Malingui V, Ikakaboua D, Louma DT, Mbouya P, Imbembi GR, Eboulou F, Ipengongoy P, Moulingui G, Mabika H, Walker J, Bayadi MM, Cheseaux S, Mbélé AE, Froese GZL.   +38 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Farrant DN, Trauernicht C, Kagawa-Viviani A, Giambelluca TW, D'Antonio CM.   +4 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, Kelly Dorkenoo, Monin Nong, Sodavy Nhong, Van Hai Thi Nguyen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A complex adaptive systems model of labour reciprocity and normative reasoning in swidden agriculture. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci
Tverskoi D, Scaggs SA, Downey SS.
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Co-designing PROFESS: a community health worker support framework to strengthen engagement in TB and HIV care in Madagascar. [PDF]

Front Health Serv
Ravololohanitra OG, Razafimanantsoa H, Hecht L, Harison MT, Rakotoherimora NAF, Andriamasy HE, Muller N.   +6 more
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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

Enabling conditions for conservation on Indigenous and community lands. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Brittain S, Alatorre A, Bullough LA, Newing H.   +3 more
europepmc   +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