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Understanding smallholder decision‐making to increase farm tree diversity: Enablers and barriers for forest landscape restoration in Western Kenya

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Integrating diverse trees and shrubs (hereafter ‘trees’) in agricultural landscapes has emerged as a crucial nature‐based solution to the triple challenge of biodiversity loss, climate change and food security. The potential benefits of on‐farm trees for both people and nature, however, are often constrained by inadequate consideration of ...
Ennia Bosshard   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

In Pursuit of Land Tenure Security

open access: yes, 2006
In Pursuit of Land Tenure Security is a unique book that takes the reader on an international tour of perceptions of land tenure security. It contains an anthology of essays based on contacts with people during assignments in various parts of the world over a period of several years.
openaire   +2 more sources

“Crossing the river while feeling the rocks”: Incremental land reform and its impact on rural welfare in China [PDF]

open access: yes
millions fed, food security, Land reform, Land tenure, Collectivized agriculture, Household responsibility,
Bruce, John W., Li, Zongmin
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Do cultural taboos regulate hunting in transitioning Indigenous communities? The case of the Idu Mishmi of Northeast India

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract There is rising recognition of resource‐use rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) within wildlife conservation. Historically, sociocultural institutions ensured wildlife sustainability in many IPLC areas. However, the future viability of such institutions is uncertain as IPLCs change in response to external pressures and ...
Sahil Nijhawan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of changes in traditional land tenure administration on land use/cover dynamics in rural Zambia.

open access: yesAfrican Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences
This paper examined the relations between informal documentations and land tenure security on change in land use/cover. Using Chamuka land registration, the paper focuses on caused of land use /cover change and how informal documents-based land dealings
Dinah Mwanza
doaj   +1 more source

Secure land tenure: food security depends on it

open access: yes, 2019
Secure land tenure: food security depends on ...
openaire   +1 more source

PROPERTY RIGHTS, PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND DEFORESTATION: COCOA IN WEST AFRICA [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, we use a vintage-capital model with risk of eviction to assess cocoa farmers' response to changes in their tenure security and to the introduction of a new, faster-maturing cocoa variety.
Kazianga, Harounan, Masters, William A.
core   +1 more source

Does Land Tenure Security Promote Manure Use by Farm Households in Vietnam? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Facing widespread poverty and land degradation, Vietnam started a land reform in 1993 as part of its renovation policy package known as “Doi Moi”. This paper examines the impacts of improved land tenure security, via this land reform, on manure use by ...
Bauer, Siegfried   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Joint social‐ecological outcomes of private land conservation: An evidence synthesis with a well‐being perspective

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Private land conservation (PLC) can contribute to sustainability by improving biodiversity and human well‐being but can also result in negative outcomes for people and nature if poorly designed. Informing PLC design to achieve objectives for joint biodiversity and well‐being is challenging because most evaluations assess ecological and social ...
Erica Cseko Nolasco   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disentangling conservation asymmetries through socio‐economic transboundary factors across the Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest of South America

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecoregions are often defined based on homogeneous biophysical and ecological conditions and are optimal spatial units for designing conservation strategies. However, transboundary ecoregions such as the Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest (APAF) experience asymmetrical conservation outcomes, understood here as cross‐border differences, resulting from ...
Lía Montti   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

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