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The economic lives of smallholder farmers

An analysis based on household data from nine countries

Reports & Research
March, 2015
Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Albania
Land & Food Security
sustainable development
land-use planning
rural areas
land use
smallholders
rural population
About two-thirds of the developing world’s 3 billion rural people live in about 475 million small farm households, working on land plots smaller than 2 hectares. 1 Many are poor and food insecure and have limited access to markets and services. Their choices are constrained, but they farm their land and produce food for a substantial proportion of the world’s population. Besides farming they have multiple economic activities, often in the informal economy, to contribute towards their small incomes.
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Sustainable Land Use and Sustainable Development: Critical Issues

Reports & Research
February, 2015
Central African Republic, South America, Central America, Asia
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
development
land
land use
sustainable development
sustainable land use
Sustainable agriculture has emerged as a key issue in agricultural development and natural resource management because of widespread and growing concern about the seriousness of degradation of the world's natural resource base and ever-increasing pressures on these resources from continuing rapid population growth. This paper examines the changes in land use and the problem of tropical deforestation affecting the world's land resource base for sustainable agricultural development. Global land-use changes have been slow in the last decade.
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Economic Analysis of Rural Land Administration Projects

Reports & Research
May, 2015
Guatemala, Norway, Thailand
land
land administration
As part of its efforts to improve the rural economies of its client countries, the World Bank is supporting programs to strengthen land administration and undertake land reform. Land administration projects can include a variety of activities. Usually, the most expensive and that which is most likely to have direct, tangible benefits is land titling. The provision of titles to landowners is only part of complex process, however. Titles by themselves are unlikely to bring lasting benefits unless there is a functioning registry and cadastre and a system to adjudicate disputes.
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Public overseas investments: ensuring respect for and protecting legitimate land tenure rights: rapid evidence assessment

Reports & Research
January, 2015
Africa, Guatemala, Cambodia, Afghanistan
VGGT
land
land tenure
assessment
This rapid evidence assessment (REA) investigates how public overseas investments supported by developed country governments respect legitimate land tenure rights, especially in countries without a strong system for protecting existing tenure rights. The REA assesses material from the limited number of studies (20) available about donor-supported investment projects involving land. Most are from African countries, but the evidence also includes cases from Afghanistan, Guatemala and Cambodia.
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Climate change impacts and mitigation in the developing world: an integrated assessment of the agriculture and forestry sectors

Reports & Research
November, 2015
Africa, Asia, Eastern Asia, Central America, South America, Northern Africa, Oceania, Southern Asia
food security
poverty
climate change
land use
agriculture
This paper conducts an integrated assessment of climate change impacts and climate mitigation on agricultural commodity markets and food availability in low- and middle-income countries. The analysis uses the partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM to generate scenarios to 2080. The findings show that climate change effects on the agricultural sector will increase progressively over the century. By 2030, the impact of climate change on food consumption is moderate but already twice as large in a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world.
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CIAT's partnership with SDC: agricultural research to promote food security and poverty reduction

Stewardship Report: achieving food security and rural prosperity across the tropics

Reports & Research
February, 2015
Africa, Central America, Central Asia
land use
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Tenure & Fishing Rights 2015: A global forum on rights-based approaches for fisheries

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Kenya, Marshall Islands, Pakistan, Nauru, Uganda, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Iceland, Sierra Leone, Costa Rica, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Norway, Cambodia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Indigenous Peoples
indigenous people's tenure
land tenure systems
customary tenure
land tenure
Session: Tenure & Fishing Rights 2015
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Evaluando la gobernanza forestal

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Serbia, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Zambia, Uganda, Guatemala, Denmark, Tanzania, Ecuador, Ghana, Congo, Malawi, Paraguay, Indonesia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
land governance
land tenure
forest land
forest conservation
Esta es una guía para medir o evaluar la gobernanza forestal. La gobernanza forestal comprende todos los sistemas sociales y económicos que afectan la forma en que las personas interactúan con los bosques, incluyendo las burocracias, leyes, politicas, normas y culturas tradicionales, patrones de tenencia de la tierra y mercados.
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Input to FAO Governance

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Algeria, Kenya, Switzerland, Philippines, Mexico, Peru
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
forest land
land governance
Meeting Name: North American Forest Commission
Meeting symbol/code: FO:NAFC/2016/10
Session: Sess. 28
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Report on Progress in Implementing Previous Decisions

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Spain, Mexico, Malaysia, Chile, China, Italy, Bolivia, Paraguay, Hungary, Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
forest land
Meeting Name: North American Forest Commission
Meeting symbol/code: FO:NAFC/2016/4
Session: Sess. 28