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Women in agriculture: Four myths

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2018
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
food security
farming systems
land rights
farmers
women
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Unpacking the Land and Socio‐Economic Effects of the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Rural Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2022
Kenya
Land & Food Security
COVID-19
land governance
rural development
food security
rural areas
land access
farmers
smallholders
rural population
Following its outbreak in late 2019, the Coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) has been reported to have had devastating human health, health systems, and socioeconomic impacts across the globe.
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Flood-based Farming for Food Security and Adaption to Climate Change in Ethiopia: Potential and Challenges, Adama, Ethiopia, 30-31 October 2013

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Ethiopia, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
climate change
farmers
food security
households
land rights
poverty
sustainable land management
water rights
International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
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State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020. Agricultural markets and sustainable development: Global value chains, smallholder farmers and digital innovations

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2020
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
food security
land classification
land rights
land use
smallholders
The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets presents commodity market issues in an objective and accessible way to policy-makers, commodity market observers and stakeholders interested in agricultural commodity market developments and their impacts on countries at different levels of economic development.
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Effects of Women Land Rights on Agricultural Outcomes in Rwanda

Vol 2, No 1: March 2019, Special Issue on Women&Land

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2019
Rwanda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
food security
farming systems
agriculture
land rights
farmers
women
This study examines the effect of land rights on agricultural outcomes in Rwanda. We characterize the effects of land rights from two perspectives. The first one is land rights indicated by the right to sell and guarantee land and the second one is land titling. The agricultural outcomes include agricultural productivity, food security and nutritional diversity. From the results, land rights are found to have a positive relationship with all the outcome variables. The effect of land rights on agricultural productivity is larger if the household head is male.
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Implications of Customary Land Rights Inequalities for Food Security: A Study of Smallholder Farmers in Northwest Ghana

Volume 9 Issue 6

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2020
Ghana
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
customary land rights
farmers
food security
land rights
Inequalities in land rights exist globally, both in formal and customary settings. This is because land rights are either strong or weak, and held by various categories of people. The weaker variants of the inequalities tend to stifle tenure security, reduce land use, and threaten the food security of those dependent on the land for survival. This paper investigated the implications of customary land rights inequalities and varying tenure insecurity for food security among smallholder farmers in northwest Ghana.
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Reducing concession size, adjusting business plans and developing more inclusive business models

Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa, Case Study 3

Reports & Research
March, 2020
Malawi, Mozambique, Western Africa, Ghana, Sierra Leone
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
community land rights
farmers
food security
land access
land conflicts
land investments
land ownership
land tenure
land use
local communities
scale
This paper is one of three thematic case studies resulting from a set of pilot projects undertaken jointly by civil society and private business partners from 2016–2019 in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa. These pilots sought to test how private companies could collaborate with civil society organisations and other stakeholders to implement responsible agribusiness investments that recognise and respect community land rights, and to develop innovative tools and approaches that could be adopted and implemented at greater scale.
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Model Contract for Outgrower Schemes

Agreements & Contracts
December, 2018
Africa, Eastern Africa, Ethiopia
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
contract farming
farmers
farmers associations
food security
This draft model contract was developed on the basis of the drafts “Proclamation to Provide for Agricultural Production and Marketing Contracts in Ethiopia” later modified and renamed as “Proclamation to Provide for the Establishment of the Central and Regional Contract Farming Coordinating bodies and Regulation of Contract Farming Contract Formulation” as well as international best practices.
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Joint ventures in the Flag Boshielo Irrigation Scheme, South Africa: a history of smallholders, states and business

Reports & Research
December, 2018
Land & Food Security
contract farming
food security
farmers
farming systems
land tenure
land ownership
The report analyzes the changing tripartite constellations between South African black smallholders, the pre- and post-apartheid state, and the country’s large-scale agribusiness and irrigation industry. A recent mode of farming is the ‘joint venture’, in which smallholders hand over land and share in the net profits, while a strategic partner manages the cultivation with own inputs and equipment, and markets the output.
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A review of trends, constraints and opportunities of smallholder irrigation in East Africa

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2018
Urban Tenure
Land & Food Security
food security
capacity development
farmers
natural resources management
water management
land tenure
urbanization
land management
poverty
Smallholder irrigation expansion would signi cantly increase agricultural production, and reduce food insecurity and poverty levels in East Africa. This paper reviews literature on trends, constraints and opportunities of smallholder irrigation in four East African countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Irrigation development has been slow in these countries, and has been mainly through traditional schemes.