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Estudos Internacionais, 2018 A partir de 2008 intensifica-se em escala global o interesse na apropriação de terras para a produção agrícola e/ou especulação imobiliária. Tal processo gerou impactos em diferentes esferas e a inserção do tema do land grabbing - nos seus diferentes ...
Lorena Izá Pereira
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Lectotypifications and taxonomic changes in the holoparasitic Orobanchaceae
Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Based on further extensive studies of specimens in various herbaria, lectotypes are designated for many taxa of holoparasitic Orobanchaceae. In particular, 47 names in the genera Boschniakia (incl. Xylanche), Cistanche, Orobanche, Phelipanche and Phelypaea are lectotypified.
Holger Uhlich +5 more
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Cogent Social Sciences, 2022 This paper presents a political ecology analysis of intergenerational land dynamics in cashew-producing areas of Ghana’s Brong Ahafo Region. In particular, the paper explores how the growing commercialisation of cashew production for export is driving ...
James Boafo, Thomas Yeboah
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores how we might integrate local traditional values into a systems approach for analyzing and maximizing localization in the context of foreign aid. The paper situates localization and its operationalization in the older and broader literature on the political economy of foreign aid.
Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
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Water Grabbing in Colonial Perspective: Land and Water in Israel/Palestine
Water Alternatives, 2012 'Water grabbing' and 'land grabbing' have been referred to as a new colonialism, dispossessing small farmers and indigenous people of land and water for the sake of investors. The current 'grabbing' is driven by perceived scarcity of food and sustainable
Stephen Gasteyer +3 more
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Land, 2019 We examine collaborations between the state and civil society in the context of land grabbing in Argentina. Land grabbing provokes many governance challenges, which generate new social arrangements.
Nienke Busscher +2 more
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, 2017 Developments in the area of ‘precision agriculture’ are creating new data points (about flows, soils, pests, climate) that agricultural technology providers ‘grab,’ aggregate, compute, and/or sell. Food producers now churn out food and, increasingly, data.
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Drivers of change in human–wildlife relationships: Southern Africa as an example
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Human–wildlife relationships (HWRs) are changing globally in response to shifts in ecological dynamics and societal values, often resulting in contestation. With an increasing need to enable human–wildlife coexistence, it is essential to better understand the drivers of change in HWRs.
Dian Spear
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Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
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Une justice foncièrement autre ?
Revue Internationale des Études du Développement, 2019 This article aims at questioning the power dynamics in the region of Upper Guinea, in Guinea, starting from an analysis of the increasing resort to the national justice system in land disputes.
Anna Dessertine
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