Launched on 18 May 2012, the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN) is a G8 (now G7) initiative spearheaded by former US President Barack Obama. The New Alliance aims to increase private investment in African agriculture as a means to “achieve sustained and inclusive agricultural growth and raise 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years.” In total, 10 African countries have signed on to the NAFSN.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2017Senegal
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Impactos del Extractivismo y la Expansión Turística
Reports & ResearchMay, 2017HondurasEste informe expone dos casos de conflictos por procesos de desposesión territorial. El primero aborda la dramática situación que viven los habitantes de la comunidad garífuna de Barra Vieja, en el litoral atlántico hondureño, contra quienes el Estado ha desatado una persecución judicial feroz.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2017Gabon
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2017Senegal
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2017United States of America
This article examines the seminal 1992 United States Supreme Court decision, Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 1 specifically focusing on the Lucas nuisance exception. I surveyed approximately 1,600 reported regulatory takings cases decided since the Lucas decision involving Lucas takings challenges. I identified the statutory nuisance cases in which state and local governments unsuccessfully asserted the Lucas nuisance exception as a defense to the courts' findings of a Lucas taking.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2017Eastern Africa
Land degradation is a serious impediment to improving rural livelihoods in Eastern Africa. This paper identifies major land degradation patterns and causes, and analyzes the determinants of sustainable land management (SLM) in three countries (Ethiopia, Malawi and Tanzania). The results show that land degradation hotspots cover about 51%, 41%, 23% and 23% of the terrestrial areas in Tanzania, Malawi and Ethiopia respectively.
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Final Report
Reports & ResearchJune, 2017AfghanistanIn the past decade, land and control of resources have been a significant aspect of government and donor concerns in Afghanistan. In the light of social transformations, increased demographic pressure, displacement, and economic evolutions, land is more than ever at the heart of economic and social considerations.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsMay, 2017Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, BrazilO presente artigo é parte de um projeto de pesquisa maior, com apoio do Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento (BID), a Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP), por meio do Grupo de Governança de Terras (GGT), e com apoio da equipe de pesquisa da Toledo e Associados (T&A). Temos como objetivo analisar os Planos Diretores e o zoneamento determinado por eles e como eles a influenciam as escolhas da população ao se estabelecerem em área irregulares na Região Metropolitana de Campinas (RMC).
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2017Latin America and the Caribbean
Las ciudades son espacios estratégicos para que las sociedades de América Latina y el Caribe puedan transitar hacia el desarrollo sostenible. Se estima que más del 80% de la población de la región es urbana, y las ciudades del continente concentran el poder económico, político y administrativo. La explosión demográfica de las décadas anteriores llevó a una urbanización más bien espontánea, regida por mecanismos de mercado, y produjo territorios urbanos muy desiguales y frágiles desde el punto de vista ambiental, sin planificación ni visión de largo plazo.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2017Sri Lanka
Land administration in Sri Lanka is institutionally and functionally fragmented and geographically incomplete. The current situation is an impediment to spatial planning and land and natural resources management with direct impact to economic growth and social development. Sri Lanka should embark to an orchestrated and incremental improvement of policies, institutional arrangements and technical solutions to improve clarity, ownership and sustainability of the land administration system and services.
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