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The Mitigating Impact of Land Tenure Security on Drought-Induced Food Insecurity: Evidence from Rural Malawi

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2002
Africa, Malawi
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
climate change
natural resources management
land tenure
land tenure systems
This paper explores household variation in land tenure security and drought shocks across villages to investigate the extent to which land tenure systems matter in households’ capacity to cope with adverse impacts of weather shocks for agricultural dependent households in rural Malawi. Our findings reveal that land tenure security cushions the effects of drought regimes on food security. Further, we establish access to credit facilities for farm investment purposes as the underlying channel that mediates the impact of drought shocks on food insecurity.
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Revue du Secteur Foncier en Milieu Urbain et Péri-urbain : Mettre Le Marché Foncier au Service d’Un Développement Efficient et Inclusif du Grand Lomé

Reports & Research
January, 2019
Togo
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
climate change
farmland
agricultural land management
occupation
Le Togo a connu une forte croissance économique dont la poursuite devra être soutenue par l’amélioration du secteur foncier. La croissance économique de plus de 5% annuellement depuis 2009 est parmi les meilleurs du continent. Cette évolution s’est accompagnée d’une réduction de la pauvreté qui demeure cependant élevée à environ 55% (2015). La ville de Lomé a été l’un des piliers de ce développement, servant de base arrière au Port de Lomé, principal moteur de l’économie du pays.
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Evolution des pratiques de gestion dans les exploitations agricoles familiales des savanes cotonnières d'Afrique centrale

Reports & Research
November, 2006
Central African Republic
land administration
expropriation
food security
farming systems
En zones de savanes cotonnières d'Afrique centrale, les densités de populations sont variables et en augmentation. Les modes d'exploitation agricole varient de l'agriculture itinérante répandue en Centrafrique à l'agriculture continue dominante au Cameroun et au Tchad. L'exploitation agricole familiale est une unité familiale de production, de consommation, d'accumulation et de résidence.
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Smallholder agric-food systems gets boost

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2020
Malawi
sustainable development
food security
environment
farming systems
agriculture
land productivity
farmers
Smallholder farmers are an important piece in the country’s agriculture puzzle and attainment of food security.

With the globe facing looming food security issues, the smallholder farmers are and have always been stakeholders not be left behind.

Yes, we cannot talk food security without inputs from the small scale farmers. They need to be incorporated in every step, as the country takes baby steps initiatives towards being self sufficient.
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Food Security and COVID-19

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2021
Kenya, Angola, Chad, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guatemala, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Global
COVID-19
land governance
sustainable development
food security
agricultural land management
agriculture
farmers
smallholders
June 4, 2021 -- An increasing number of countries are facing growing levels of acute food insecurity, reversing years of development gains. Even before COVID-19 reduced incomes and disrupted supply chains, chronic and acute hunger were on the rise due to various factors including conflict, socio-economic conditions, natural hazards, climate change and pests. COVID-19 impacts have led to severe and widespread increases in global food insecurity, affecting vulnerable households in almost every country, with impacts expected to continue through 2021 and into 2022.
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Women’s Access to Land in Mauritania. A Case Study in Preparation for the COP

Reports & Research
September, 2015
Mauritania
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
sustainable development
food security
land policies
climate change
natural resources management
land rights
land access
community land rights
tenure security
women
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Rapport du Rapporteur spécial sur les droits de l’homme et l’extrême pauvreté sur sa mission en Mauritanie (A/HRC/35/26/Add.1)

Reports & Research
March, 2017
Mauritania
land governance
poverty
food security
land distribution
land rights
water rights
Le Secrétariat a l’honneur de transmettre au Conseil des droits de l’homme le
rapport du Rapporteur spécial sur les droits de l’homme et l’extrême pauvreté, Philip
Alston sur la mission que celui-ci a réalisée en Mauritanie, du 2 au 11 mai 2016. Le
Rapporteur spécial a constaté que, si la Mauritanie avait réalisé des progrès notables dans la
lutte contre la pauvreté ces dernières années, une grande partie de la population continuait à
vivre dans une pauvreté multidimensionnelle et n’avait pas accès à une nourriture
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MIRACLE OR MIRAGE?

MANUFACTURING HUNGER AND POVERTY IN ETHIOPIA

Reports & Research
May, 2016
Ethiopia
poverty
food security
land use
land productivity
pastoralists
extractive industries
As months of protest and civil unrest hurl Ethiopia into a severe political crisis, a new report from the Oakland Institute debunks the myth that the country is the new “African Lion.” Miracle or Mirage? Manufacturing Hunger and Poverty in Ethiopia exposes how authoritarian development schemes have perpetuated cycles of poverty, food insecurity, and marginalized the country’s most vulnerable citizens.
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The future of livestock in Ethiopia

Opportunities and challenges in the face of uncertainty

Reports & Research
July, 2019
Ethiopia
land governance
food security
land-use planning
land use
natural resources
natural resources management

The Ethiopian population will grow from present

102 to almost 190 million in the next three

decades, out of which 76 million people will live in

cities and towns vis-à-vis 19 million today. Per capita

national income, currently at USD 767 per year, will

almost double by 2050. These changes will trigger
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The state of poverty and food insecurity in Maseru, Lesotho

Urban Food Security Series Number 21

Reports & Research
January, 2015
Lesotho
Land & Food Security
food security
urban planning
urbanization
Lesotho regularly features in the African and international media as a country blighted by drought, hunger and food insecurity. Much of the discussion about the causes and remedies for food insecurity, including within Lesotho itself, focuses on the rural population and the precipitous decline in domestic food production in recent decades. This report argues that the rural bias of both donors and government ignores the fact that poverty and food insecurity are increasingly important urban issues as well.