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Land reform and certification in Madagascar: does perception of tenure security matter and change? : [Draft] [PDF]
, 2012 The Malagasy land reform, ongoing since 2005, belongs to the new generation of land reforms. It promotes the legal recognition of existing landholders' rights (through certification) and the decentralization of land management.
Andrianirina, Nicole +7 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Deforestation and its social impacts are an enduring challenge in agrarian frontiers, especially in the tropics. Fueled by global demand for commodities, this process is mediated by ideas, concepts, meanings, and policies that uphold socioenvironmental degradation. A key and understudied—arena in which this mediation occurs is the sub‐national
Gabriela Russo Lopes, Fabio de Castro
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Innovative Customary Land Governance in Zambia: Experiences, Lessons Learned and Emerging Impacts
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020 In Zambia, security of tenure for communities residing under customary land tenure settings has in recent years increasingly come under threat owing to the pressures of high rate of urbanization, speculation, subdivision and conversion to state land ...
DAVID KATUNGULA
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increasing electricity demand from data centres, industrial applications, electric vehicles and domestic heating is creating pressure to develop electricity systems in many parts of the world, but especially in Western countries. In response to challenges such as grid congestion, interconnection queues and climate‐related hazards, network ...
Jussi Valta +3 more
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Rural Land Rights, Markets, and Structural Transformation: A Review of a Ugandan Case
LandUganda is gradually transitioning from communal to private land tenure systems. However, establishing privatized land rights has faced ongoing criticism, particularly concerning their impact on vulnerable groups.
Noel Kishaija, Bálint Heil
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
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Land Tenure Conflicts in Forest Areas of Muara Gembong, Bekasi Regency
Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental ManagementLand tenure conflicts have been a significant problem in Java for decades. The divergence between the state’s legal view and the community’s historical claim to land rights has sparked longstanding debate.
Adi Purwanto Nugroho +2 more
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Land Tenure and the Management of Land Resources in Trinidad and Tobago [PDF]
The potential of the agricultural sector in Trinidad and Tobago has not been realized in recent decades. The more productive land resources of the country are underutilized, while many of the more fragile ecosystems are in danger.
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Enabling pastoralist management of rangelands to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.Rangelands cover 54% of the global terrestrial area and are threatened by land conversion and degradation, which erodes their global value and weakens the livelihoods of pastoralists who manage them. Sustainable Development Goal Target 15.3 on Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) provides a framework for sustainable rangelands management, but countries ...
Mounir Louhaichi +7 more
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Local Government Behavior and Property Right Formation in Rural China [PDF]
Secure land tenure is important to the development process, but China’s rural reforms have so far failed to provide farm households with this security.
Loren Brandt +2 more
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