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Women's Land Tenure Security and Household Human Capital: Evidence from Ethiopia's Land Certification. [PDF]

World Dev, 2017
Muchomba FM.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Land Tenure Center in Latin America and the Caribbean

, 2001
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University of Wisconsin--Madison. Land Tenure Center.
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Open‐land‐derived agroforestry and effects of abandonment of management of the main crop on ecosystem services and woody plant diversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Tropical forests are rapidly declining. One promising strategy to reverse the loss of tropical forest is the establishment of agroforestry on open land. We combined interviews with biodiversity surveys to learn general lessons from success and nonsuccess stories of the establishment of open‐land‐derived coffee agroforests in one of the world's ...
Lucas M. Fonzaghi, Kristoffer Hylander, Thiago S. de Melo, Ayco J. M. Tack   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population, land tenure, and natural resource management: the case of customary land area in Malawi [PDF]

This paper uses cross section-time series data on 57 communities in Malawi to determine statistically the factors determining changes in land use, tree cover, and crop yield.
Otsuka, Keijiro, Place, Frank
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Perceptions, challenges and determinants of management strategy choices for combating fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) infestation in Ghana

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Despite high awareness of fall armyworm, a significant gap remains in the use of sustainable and effective control measures. Farmers predominantly perceive synthetic pesticides as ideal despite studies highlighting botanical and traditional methods as more sustainable.
Richard Adabah, Robert Aidoo, Bright Owusu Asante, Amos Mensah, Seth Etuah, Gifty Boakye Appiah, Jonas Osei‐Adu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Considering land tenure in REDD+ participatory measurement, reporting, and verification: A case study from Indonesia. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2017
Felker ME, Bong IW, DePuy WH, Jihadah LF.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

ALTA OR NLTA: WHAT'S IN THE NAME? LAND TENURE DILEMMA AND THE FIJI SUGAR INDUSTRY

Since 1997, the agricultural leases on Native land, issued under the 1976 Agricultural and Landlord Tenants Act (ALTA), began to expire. The sugar industry is the main commodity export earner for Fiji, directly contributing about 22% of the national GDP ...
Lal, Padma, Reddy, Mahendra, Lim-Applegate, Hazel   +2 more
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Reducing Trade‐Offs of Net Zero Carbon Transitions Through Entrepreneurship and Coordinated Innovation: A Spatially Disaggregated Analysis Across Countries and World Regions

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transition processes towards a sustainable future benefit from historic perspectives, since feasible changes of socio‐technological conditions and processes depend on a holistic assessment of how actors are embedded in existing institutions, routines, and structures. Building on the Income–Population–Affluence–Technology equation and utilizing
Jessica Kluge, Marcus Wagner
wiley   +1 more source

Fair and Equitable Land Access (FELA) by Development Projects: Enhancing Governance for Sustainable Development Outcomes When Projects Displace People

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Displacing people to make way for development projects is contentious. Empirical research demonstrates that neither human rights guidelines nor multilateral lenders' standards guarantee positive, sustainable outcomes for displaced people. With multiple new displacing projects proposed globally, including for renewable energy, we propose a new ...
Eddie Smyth, Susanna Price, Frank Vanclay   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trees, Tenure and Conflict: Rubber in Colonial Benin [PDF]

Tree crops have changed land tenure in Africa. Farmers have acquired more permanent, alienable rights, but have also faced disputes with competing claimants and the state.
James Fenske
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