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The Impact of Non-Agricultural Diversification on Financial Performance: Evidence from Family Farms in Italy

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
Italy
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
land productivity
Diversification has been increasingly recognized as a rewarding farm strategy through which farmers produce on-farm non-agricultural goods and services. In doing so, farmers employ farm inputs (capital, labor, and land) in products other than agricultural goods, with the aim to sell them in the market and increase their income. While a significant body of literature has explored the drivers affecting the adoption of diversification activities, so far little attention has been given to the impact of such adoption on the technical and financial performance of farms.
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A Longitudinal Approach to Examining the Socio-Economic Resilience of the Alento District (Italy) to Land Degradation—1950 to Present

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2019
Italy
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
land degradation
Land degradation is a multifaceted phenomenon. In many mountainous and hilly areas that are marginal in terms of their economic and social sustainability, degradation is closely linked to population decline through ageing and outmigration, and to the abandonment of land, leading to a loss of community resilience. These processes acting together can produce positive feedback loops, with the consequential loss of socio-economic resilience at larger spatial scales that can ultimately lead to the disintegration of entire territories.
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How Can Innovation in Urban Agriculture Contribute to Sustainability? A Characterization and Evaluation Study from Five Western European Cities

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2019
Germany, France, Italy, Spain
Urban Tenure
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
land access
Compared to rural agriculture, urban agriculture (UA) has some distinct features (e.g., the limited land access, alternative growing media, unique legal environments or the non-production-related missions) that encourage the development of new practices, i.e., “novelties” or “innovations”. This paper aims to (1) identify the “triggers” for novelty production in UA; (2) characterize the different kinds of novelties applied in UA; (3) evaluate the “innovativeness” of those social, environmental and economic novelties; and, (4) estimate the links between novelties and sustainability.
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Embedded Deforestation: The Case Study of the Brazilian–Italian Bovine Leather Trade

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
Brazil, Italy
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
land governance
Deforestation and forest degradation driven by Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) are important sources of carbon emissions. Market globalization and trade liberalization policies reinforce this trend and risk deforestation to be embedded in global value chains. Due to the complexity of global production and trade systems, deforestation risk is also embedded in the supply chains of the products and sectors that are not direct deforestation drivers. Bovine leather is a commodity closely entangled in the debates about deforestation as it is a by-product of cattle.
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Customer-oriented approach in cadastral procedures – Case study from Finland

Land Use Policy Volume 90

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
Finland, Italy
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
research
This paper is presenting research on with possibilities and benefit of applying a customer-oriented approach in public cadastral procedures. Public service providers have raised awareness towards customer-oriented approaches in their procedures during recent decades. This study discusses the relevance of adopting a new approach in cadastral procedures by presenting a new method to obtain a subdivision procedure. This is done by conducting a literature review followed by a description of this new method in Finnish local government, the city of Tampere.
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Agroforestry creates carbon sinks whilst enhancing the environment in agricultural landscapes in Europe

Land Use Policy Volume 83

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2019
Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, United States of America, Europe
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
environment
farmland
forestry
land use
research
sustainable land management
Agroforestry, relative to conventional agriculture, contributes significantly to carbon sequestration, increases a range of regulating ecosystem services, and enhances biodiversity. Using a transdisciplinary approach, we combined scientific and technical knowledge to evaluate nine environmental pressures in terms of ecosystem services in European farmland and assessed the carbon storage potential of suitable agroforestry systems, proposed by regional experts.
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Landscape Economic Attractiveness: An Integrated Methodology for Exploring the Rural Landscapes in Piedmont (Italy)

Volume 8 Issue 7

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2019
Italy
land
research
The present paper focuses on an integrated evaluation methodology aimed at measuring the attractiveness of rural landscapes. The landscapes under observation are two exceptional contexts in Piedmont (Italy): The Moraine Amphitheatre of Ivrea and the vineyard landscape of Langhe, Roero and Monferrato, which have recently been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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Towards a Tool for Early Detection and Estimation of Forest Cuttings by Remotely Sensed Data

Volume 8 Issue 4

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2019
Italy
land
research
Knowing the extent and frequency of forest cuttings over large areas is crucial for forest inventories and monitoring. Remote sensing has amply proved its ability to detect land cover changes, particularly in forested areas. Among various strategies, those focusing on mapping using classification approaches of remotely sensed time series are the most frequently used. The main limit of such approaches stems from the difficulty in perfectly and unambiguously classifying each pixel, especially over wide areas. The same procedure is of course simpler if performed over a single pixel.
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The role of legislation in land use planning for developing countries

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2019
Algeria, United States of America, Samoa, Peru, Indonesia, Tonga, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo, Guyana, Cameroon, Cyprus, Malaysia, Belize, Tanzania, Botswana, Ethiopia, Gabon, Rwanda, Uruguay, Nepal, Italy, Sudan
land-use planning
land use
The present study, by the Chief of the Agrarian and Water Law Section of the FAO Legislation Branch, is intended to explore in greater depth the value of legislation to the land use planning process. It is, on the one hand, an exploration of the ways in which legislation serves to provide the structural underpinnings for and connections between the technical disciplines which have long been associated with the land use planning effort.
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Triggering the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) in the context of oil extraction in Kenya’s Turkana County

Institutional & promotional materials
March, 2019
Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Italy
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
VGGT
land governance
land tenure
pastoralists
extractive industries
The case-study presents the case of the appropriation of pastoral lands by the coming of large-scale extractive industries in Turkana, Kenya. The case-study is meant to raise awareness among the general audience regarding the precarious situation of the pastoralists in the context of this new socio-economic development and lack of secure land tenure. At the same time, it provides this information as a case to local and global civil society, experts, institutions and policy makers.