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Land tenure drives Brazil's deforestation rates across socio-environmental contexts. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2022
How land-tenure regimes affect deforestation remains ambiguous. This study shows how deforestation in Brazil is land-tenure dependent, and how strategies to effectively reduce deforestation can range from strengthening poorly defined rights to ...
Pacheco A, Meyer C.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Land Tenure and Green Production Behavior: Empirical Analysis Based on Fertilizer Use by Cotton Farmers in China. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021
Stable land rights can increase farmers’ expectations regarding the future and encourage their adoption of green production methods, which is an important guarantee for promoting the development of green agriculture development.
Mao H, Chai Y, Chen S.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Land tenure, food security, gender and urbanization in Northern Ghana. [PDF]

Land use policy, 2023
Nchanji EB, Chagomoka T, Bellwood-Howard I, Drescher A, Schareika N, Schlesinger J.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Differentiations in Women’s Land Tenure Experiences: Implications for Women’s Land Access and Tenure Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Land, 2019
Most literature on land tenure in sub-Saharan Africa has presented women as a homogenous group. This study uses evidence from Ghana, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe to show that women have differentiated problems, needs, and statuses in their quest for land access
Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Gaynor Paradza, Walter Dachaga   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Land Tenure Disputes and Resolution Mechanisms: Evidence from Peri-Urban and Nearby Rural Kebeles of Debre Markos Town, Ethiopia

Land, 2021
In Ethiopia, like in other developing countries, land disputes are critical problems both in peri-urban and rural areas. Handling such disputes requires scientific and evidence-based interventions.
Sayeh Kassaw Agegnehu, Tilahun Dires, Worku Nega, Reinfried Mansberger   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Indicators for Measuring Spatial Justice and Land Tenure Security for Poor and Low Income Urban Dwellers

Land, 2018
There exist various indicators that measure land tenure security for urbanites. Most of those indicators measure the degree to which land titling promotes the security of tenure. Based on the reviewed literature, it is admitted that land titling is not a
Ernest Uwayezu, Walter T. de Vries
doaj   +2 more sources

Land Tenure, Ownership and Use as Barriers to Coastal Wetland Restoration Projects in Australia: Recommendations and Solutions. [PDF]

Environ Manage, 2023
Bell-James J, Fitzsimons JA, Lovelock CE.   +2 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Land Tenure Governance in the First Decades of the 21st Century: Progress, Challenges, and Lessons from 18 Countries [PDF]

Land
This article is based on a review of the governance of land tenure in 18 countries—16 in Africa and 2 in Asia—carried out from 2021 to 2023. It uses international guidelines on land policy and tenure governance as benchmarks to assess progress in each ...
Marc Wegerif, Mohamed Coulibaly, Hubert Ouedraogo   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Customary versus conventional land administration systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022
Context and background:  The essential emerging reality from the statutory-versus-customary tenure debate is that both customary and statutory tenure systems have faults and good merits.
Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Ernest Uwayezu, Mutjinde Katjuia   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Resolving land tenure security is essential to deliver forest restoration

Communications Earth & Environment, 2023
Tropical countries are making ambitious commitments to Forest Landscape Restoration with the aim of locking up carbon, conserving biodiversity and benefiting local livelihoods.
O. S. Rakotonarivo, Mirindra Rakotoarisoa, H. M. Rajaonarivelo, Stefana Raharijaona, Julia P. G. Jones, N. Hockley   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source