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Guiding Principles for Building Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration Systems in Developing Countries:Capacity Development, Change Management and Project Delivery [PDF]
, 2016 Most developing countries are struggling to find remedies for their many land problems that are often causing land conflicts, reducing economic development and preventing countries reaching their true potential. Existing investments in land administration have been built on legacy approaches and have not delivered the required pervasive changes and ...
McLaren, Robin +2 more
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Extreme Weather Events and Consumer Food Responses
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates consumer food responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which affected a swath of the Southeastern U.S. in 2024. Using representative consumer survey data from six affected states, we analyze 10 distinct food responses classified into ex ante and ex post responses, and examine their associations with food insufficiency
Ahmad Zia Wahdat, Joseph Balagtas
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, 2015 This paper argues that the fit-for-purpose approach to building land administration systems in less developed countries will enable provision of the basic administrative frameworks for managing the people to land relationship that is fundamental for ...
Enemark, Stig
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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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Maya Communal Lands in Belize: A fit-for-purpose model to support indigenous land rights, climate resilience and legal integration. [PDF]
Indigenous land rights remain a central concern in global land governance, with the case of the Maya communities in southern Belize offering a particularly important example of legal pluralism in practice.
FRAZER, Leonel +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Growing demand for healthier beverages is driving innovation in the wine sector, with dealcoholized wine emerging as a promising alternative. However, little is known about the contextual conditions under which consumers would choose dealcoholized wine, particularly in countries with strong wine traditions. To fill this gap, this work examines
Giovanna Piracci +4 more
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Hemp Cultivation and Crop Diversification: Implications for Ecosystem Services in Kentucky
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the ecosystem benefits of expanding hemp cultivation by assessing its impact on crop diversity. Using scenario‐based simulations and fixed‐effect panel regressions with county‐level data in Kentucky, we find that increased hemp acreage tends to enhance crop diversity, improving water quality and bird diversity.
Yunsun Park +4 more
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Building Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration Systems:Providing Secure Tenure for All
, 2016 New solutions in land administration are required that can deliver security of tenure for all, are affordable and can be quickly developed and incrementally improved over time. The Fit-For-Purpose (FFP) approach to land administration has emerged to meet these simple, but challenging requirements.This paper discusses the building of the FFP approach at
Lemmen, Christiaan +2 more
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Educational tools for fit-for-purpose land administration: experiences and lessons from Mozambique
GIM International, 2016 In most countries, realising the continuum of land rights ideology and the fit-for-purpose land administration approach will require a suite of policy, legal, institutional and technical interventions. Another key component is capacity development; scaled implementation requires individuals, organisations and society as a whole to understand, support ...
Groenendijk, Liza +2 more
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina +1 more
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