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Conservation Farming and Changing Climate: More Beneficial than Conventional Methods for Degraded Ugandan Soils

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
Uganda
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land productivity
The extent of land affected by degradation in Uganda ranges from 20% in relatively flat and vegetation-covered areas to 90% in the eastern and southwestern highlands. Land degradation has adversely affected smallholder agro-ecosystems including direct damage and loss of critical ecosystem services such as agricultural land/soil and biodiversity. This study evaluated the extent of bare grounds in Nakasongola, one of the districts in the Cattle Corridor of Uganda and the yield responses of maize (Zea mays) and common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to different tillage methods in the district.
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Conservation Farming and Changing Climate: More Beneficial than Conventional Methods for Degraded Ugandan Soils

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
Uganda
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land degradation
The extent of land affected by degradation in Uganda ranges from 20% in relatively flat and vegetation-covered areas to 90% in the eastern and southwestern highlands. Land degradation has adversely affected smallholder agro-ecosystems including direct damage and loss of critical ecosystem services such as agricultural land/soil and biodiversity. This study evaluated the extent of bare grounds in Nakasongola, one of the districts in the Cattle Corridor of Uganda and the yield responses of maize (Zea mays) and common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to different tillage methods in the district.
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Factors Influencing Farmers’ Adoption of Soil and Water Control Technology (SWCT) in Keita Valley, a Semi-Arid Area of Niger

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2018
Niger
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
land degradation
The Ader Doutchi Maggia in Niger, as with other Sahelian zones, undergoes a process of climatic deterioration, which combines with the growing social and economic needs of the increasing population and causes a general economic crisis. Land degradation due to biophysical factors requires that priority action is given to land reclamation and soil conservation and to activities intended to increase agricultural production.
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Soil Organic Carbon Baselines for Land Degradation Neutrality: Map Accuracy and Cost Tradeoffs with Respect to Complexity in Otjozondjupa, Namibia

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2018
Namibia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land degradation
Recent estimates show that one third of the world’s land and water resources are highly or moderately degraded. Global economic losses from land degradation (LD) are as high as USD $10.6 trillion annually. These trends catalyzed a call for avoiding future LD, reducing ongoing LD, and reversing past LD, which has culminated in the adoption of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 15.3 which aims to achieve global land degradation neutrality (LDN) by 2030.
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Soil and Water Conservation in Burkina Faso, West Africa

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2018
Burkina Faso
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land degradation
Inadequate land management and agricultural activities have largely resulted in land degradation in Burkina Faso. The nationwide governmental and institutional driven implementation and adoption of soil and water conservation measures (SWCM) since the early 1960s, however, is expected to successively slow down the degradation process and to increase the agricultural output. Even though relevant measures have been taken, only a few studies have been conducted to quantify their effect, for instance, on soil erosion and environmental restoration.
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Implementing Forest Landscape Restoration in Ethiopia

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
Ethiopia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
land degradation
Driven by various initiatives and international policy processes, the concept of Forest Landscape Restoration, is globally receiving renewed attention. It is seen internationally and in national contexts as a means for improving resilience of land and communities in the face of increasing environmental degradation through different forest activities. Ethiopia has made a strong voluntary commitment in the context of the Bonn Challenge—it seeks to implement Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) on 15 million ha.
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Competing Tenures: Implications for REDD+ in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2018
Congo
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Urban Tenure
land governance
The capacity of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) forests to sequestrate carbon has attracted interest from the international community to protect forests for carbon storage and alleviate rural poverty by establishing REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation). Using information gathered from interviews, focus groups, field observations, and policy document analysis, this paper demonstrates that REDD+ is not well adapted to the institutional structures of forest governance in the DRC, including both statutory and customary tenure.
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Land Use Planning and Wildlife-Inflicted Crop Damage in Zambia

Environments

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2018
Zambia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Urban Tenure
land-use planning
Damage to crops from wildlife interference is a common threat to food security among rural communities in or near Game Management Areas (GMAs) in Zambia. This study uses a two-stage model and cross-sectional data from a survey of 2769 households to determine the impact of land use planning on the probability and extent of wildlife-inflicted crop damage. The results show that crop damage is higher in GMAs as compared to non-GMAs, and that land use planning could be an effective tool to significantly reduce the likelihood of such damage.
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Tackle tenure issues in informal settlements

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2018
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Urban Tenure
housing rights
informal settlements
land rights
poverty
tenure security
slums
Four years ago, I was part of a research team looking at access to land and basic services in informal settlements.

We conducted field interviews in Mukuru slums in Eastlands. We were amazed at the levels of development in the area. People were constructing permanent structures despite the fact that they were under the impression that informal settlements are characterised by temporary structures.

Four years later, there are ongoing discussions to address the plight of informal settlements. A fundamental starting point is to address issues of tenure security.
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Land Change Dynamics

Insights from Intensity Analysis Applied to an African Emerging City

Reports & Research
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Rwanda, Africa
Urban Tenure
urbanization
land use
Land change in Kigali, Rwanda, is examined using Intensity Analysis, which measures the temporal stationarity of changes among categories. Maps for 1981, 2002 and 2014 were produced that show the land categories Built, Vegetated and Other, which is composed mainly of croplands and bare surfaces. Land change accelerated from the first time interval (1981–2002) to the second time interval (2002–2014), as increased human and economic activities drove land transformation.