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Le foncier rural dans les pays du Sud

Peer-reviewed publication
Reports & Research
January, 2023
Africa, Northern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Lebanon, France, Oceania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
climate change
desertification
land investments
land rights

Dans les pays du Sud, l’accès à la terre et à ses ressources, son contrôle et ses usages représentent des questions cruciales. Au cœur des défis de la construction de l’État, du développement agricole, de la sécurité alimentaire et de la durabilité environnementale, le foncier est aussi un marqueur identitaire et une source récurrente de conflits.
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Povos indígenas e mudanças climáticas: resistência adaptativa à luz da Ecologia da Comunicação

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2020
Brazil
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
indigenous peoples' lands
territory
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous people's tenure
research
Indigenous Peoples
Os territórios indígenas (TIs) são fundamentais para o equilíbrio do clima do planeta. No entanto, os efeitos das mudanças climáticas – em consequência de ações antrópicas – já são perceptíveis nos modos de vida dos povos originários. Nesse contexto, à luz da perspectiva ecológica da comunicação, o artigo objetiva demonstrar como o processo de digitalização dos territórios, por meio do uso do celular, favorece uma comunicação ampliada e participativa visando maior controle sobre os ecossistemas.
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Soil Carbon Regulating Ecosystem Services in the State of South Carolina, USA

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Guyana, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
Sustainable management of soil carbon (C) at the state level requires valuation of soil C regulating ecosystem services (ES) and disservices (ED).
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Climate financing needs in the land sector under the Paris Agreement: An assessment of developing country perspectives

Land Use Policy Volume 83

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2019
Brazil, Canada, France, Indonesia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
assessment
climate change
land use
research
This paper explores the potential of climate finance to support developing country efforts to shift away from unsustainable land use patterns in the context of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. We pursue two research objectives here. Through a meta-analysis of 40 developing country Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), we provide, first, a comprehensive qualitative overview of developing country perspectives on climate financing needs for mitigation and adaptation activities in the land use, land-use change and forestry sectors (LULUCF).
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Who is resilient in Africa’s Green Revolution? Sustainable intensification and Climate Smart Agriculture in Rwanda

Land Use Policy Volume 97

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
Central African Republic, Mexico, Rwanda, United States of America, Asia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
climate change
land use
research
resilience
Under the banner of a "New Green Revolution for Africa," agricultural intensification programs aim to make smallholder agriculture more productive as well as "climate smart". As with Green Revolutions in Asia and Mexico, agricultural innovations (hybrid seeds, agronomic engineering, market linkages,and increased use of fertilizer and pesticides) are promoted as essential catalysts of agriculture-led economic growth.
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Solving Brazil's land use puzzle: Increasing production and slowing Amazon deforestation

Land Use Policy Volume 91

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2020
Brazil, United States of America
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
deforestation
land use
research
Brazil has become an agricultural powerhouse, producing roughly 30 % of the world’s soy and 15 % of its beef by 2013 – yet historically much of that growth has come at the expense of its native ecosystems. Since 1985, pastures and croplands have replaced nearly 65 Mha of forests and savannas in the legal Amazon. A growing body of work suggests that this paradigm of horizontal expansion of agriculture over ecosystems is outdated and brings negative social and environmental outcomes.
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Planning for Dynamic Connectivity: Operationalizing Robust Decision-Making and Prioritization Across Landscapes Experiencing Climate and Land-Use Change

Volume 9 Issue 10

Peer-reviewed publication
October, 2020
Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
Preserving landscape connectivity is one of the most frequently recommended strategies to address the synergistic threats of climate change, habitat fragmentation, and intensifying disturbances. Although assessments to develop plans for linked and connected landscapes in response to climate and land-use change have been increasingly employed in the last decade, efforts to operationalize and implement these plans have been limited. Here, we present a framework using existing, available biological data to design an implementable, comprehensive multispecies connectivity plan.
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Proportional Variation of Potential Groundwater Recharge as a Result of Climate Change and Land-Use: A Study Case in Mexico

Volume 9 Issue 10

Peer-reviewed publication
October, 2020
Mexico, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
water
This work proposes a methodology whereby the selection of hydrologic and land-use cover change (LUCC) models allows an assessment of the proportional variation in potential groundwater recharge (PGR) due to both land-use cover change (LUCC) and some climate change scenarios for 2050. The simulation of PGR was made through a distributed model, based on empirical methods and the forecasting of LUCC stemming from a supervised classification with remote sensing techniques, both inside a Geographic Information System.
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Future Directions—Engaged Scholarship and the Climate Crisis

Volume 9 Issue 9

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
Climate change has the potential to disrupt ecosystem services and further exacerbate the effects of human activities on natural resources. This has significant implications for educational institutions and the populations they serve. As the current crop of landscape architecture students struggles to define its role within the climate crisis and its related social and political underpinnings, a core mission of colleges and universities moving forward should be to provide students with applied knowledge about how climate change affects the landscape.
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Carbon Storage Potential of Silvopastoral Systems of Colombia

Volume 9 Issue 9

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
Colombia, Portugal, United States of America
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
agroforestry systems
climate change
community forestry
forestry
grazing
land restoration
Nine Latin American countries plan to use silvopastoral practices—incorporating trees into grazing lands—to mitigate climate change. However, the cumulative potential of scaling up silvopastoral systems at national levels is not well quantified. Here, we combined previously published tree cover data based on 250 m resolution MODIS satellite remote sensing imagery for 2000–2017 with ecofloristic zone carbon stock estimates to calculate historical and potential future tree biomass carbon storage in Colombian grasslands.