Govern land as a global commons [PDF]
Nature, 2017 Felix Creutzig calls for international coordination of land use to ensure everyone has access to its fruits.
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Self-Governance for Sustainable Global Supply Chains: Can it deliver the impacts needed? [PDF]
, 2013 The world community convened in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012 for the third UN Conference on Sustainable Development. We are, however, increasingly facing major persistent threats, which despite being known for a few decades are still far from being ...
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Policy and Legislative criteria for acquisition and granting of land for investment purposes in Kenya [PDF]
, 2016 Kenya is currently implementing a number of large scale infrastructure and development projects aimed at transforming the country into a newly industrializing, middle-income country.
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Securing and Managing Community Land: Lessons from Kenya
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022 This paper was presented in the 2021 Conference on Land Policy in Africa held in Kigali, Rwanda, in November 2021. It is based on a three-year study by the Land Development and Governance Institute (LDGI), in partnership with the International ...
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Ordinary land grabbing in peri-urban spaces: land use conflicts and governance in a small Colombian city [PDF]
, 2019 Recent scholarship on ‘urban land grabbing’ has urged researchers to take more geographically nuanced perspectives on land appropriation, especially in the global South.
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Certification schemes and the governance of land : enforcing standards or enabling scrutiny? [PDF]
, 2013 Given the challenges of upholding human rights in countries where land grabbing has been most acute, attention has turned to alternative regulatory mechanisms by which better land governance might be brought about. This essay considers one such approach:
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Safeguards for communities during acquisition of land for investment purposes [PDF]
, 2016 High levels of poverty and a predominantly rural population raise questions of vulnerability to manipulation during large scale land acquisitions in Kenya.
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Government interventions in sustainable supply chain governance: Experience in Dutch front-running cases [PDF]
, 2012 Numerous multi-actor governance systems have recently emerged, ensuring sustainability of international traded products. Business and civil society actors play a dominant role in initiating and governing ‘sustainable supply chain governance systems ...
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Exploring the role of empathy when intervening at deep leverage points of human–nature relationships
Ecosystems and PeopleDespite being qualitatively different, wickedly complex problems are often still tackled in the same way as simple challenges. We draw on the concept of leverage points from systems thinking to suggest that simple solutions target shallow leverage points
Melissa Robson Williams +3 more
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Agriculture, 2020 This study investigates the factors that affect farmers’ access to agricultural credit and its role in adopting improved agricultural technologies in the rain-fed zone of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan. Using logistic models, we assess and compare the
Ayat Ullah +3 more
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