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Mediterranean Landscape Re-Greening at the Expense of South American Agricultural Expansion

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Argentina, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Paraguay, United States of America, South America
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
deforestation
livestock
The stabling of livestock farming implies changes in both local ecosystems (regeneration of forest stands via reduced grazing) and those located thousands of kilometers away (deforestation to produce grain for feeding livestock). Despite their importance, these externalities are poorly known. Here we evaluated how the intensification and confinement of livestock in Spain has affected forest surface changes there and in South America, the largest provider of soybeans for animal feed to the European Union.
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Moving forward

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Angola, Liechtenstein, Bangladesh, United States of America, Congo, Comoros, Cameroon, Uzbekistan, Switzerland, Kenya, Zambia, Denmark, Rwanda, Philippines, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Brazil, Tunisia, Argentina, Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Czech Republic
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
sustainable land management
forest land
Forests, trees and woodlands cover almost one-third of the Earth’s land area. They are a crucial source of food and income for more than a billion people around the globe. They provide a variety of wood and non-wood products and vital ecosystem services – preventing erosion from wind and water, preserving water quality, shading crops and livestock, absorbing carbon which contributes to countering climate change, and providing habitat for many species of plants and animals, thus helping to conserve the planet’s biological diversity.
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Responsible governance of agricultural investments: a right to food perspective

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2018
Malawi, Ghana, Argentina, Brazil, Norway, Germany
Land & Food Security
VGGT
land governance
food security
land tenure
In light of the endorsement of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT), this Information Brief aims to provide concise and practical elements for a responsible governance of agricultural investments. Developed jointly with the FAO study The Right to Food and the Responsible Governance of Tenure: A dialogue towards implementation, this Information Brief offers a right to food perspective on a c rucial governance matter for the implementation of the VGGT.
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Climate change for forest policy-makers

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2019
Kenya, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Philippines, Mauritania, Argentina, China, Italy, Indonesia, Ghana, Congo, South Sudan, India, Senegal, Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
climate change
forest land
The critical role of forests in climate change mitigation and adaptation is now widely recognized. Forests contribute significantly to climate change mitigation through their carbon sink and carbon storage functions. They play an essential role in reducing vulnerabilities and enhancing adaptation of people and ecosystems to climate change and climate variability, the negative impacts of which are becoming increasingly evident in many parts of the world.
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Soil Organic Carbon Mapping Cookbook 2nd Edition

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2018
Rwanda, North Macedonia, Bangladesh, Belgium, United States of America, Kenya, Luxembourg, China, Netherlands, Iran, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Austria
land management
The Soil Organic Carbon Mapping cookbook provides a step-by-step guidance for developing 1 km grids for soil carbon stocks. It includes the preparation of local soil data, the compilation and pre-processing of ancillary spatial data sets, upscaling methodologies, and uncertainty assessments.
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What drives the global land rush?

January, 2011
Qatar, Egypt, Nigeria, United States of America, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Brazil, United Kingdom, Ghana, Russia, Moldova, Ethiopia, Belarus, Mozambique, Laos, Turkmenistan, Philippines, Libya, Tajikistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Kuwait, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Sudan, Bahrain, Armenia, Saudi Arabia, Cambodia, Oceania, Western Asia, Europe, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, Northern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land
land tenure
Recent increases in the level of agricultural commodity prices and the resulting demand for land has been accompanied by a rising interest in acquiring agricultural land by investors. This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture.
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Seaweed Aquaculture for Food Security, Income Generation and Environmental Health in Tropical Developing Countries

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2016
Tanzania, Japan, Malaysia, Madagascar, China, Namibia, Indonesia, Australia, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Argentina, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Brazil, New Zealand, Central America, Northern America, Oceania
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
food security
climate change
To meet carbon emissions targets, more than 30 countries have committed to boosting production of renewable resources from biological materials andconvert them into products such as food, animal feedand bioenergy. In a post-fossil-fuel world, an increasingproportion of chemicals, plastics, textiles, fuels and electricity will have to come from biomass, which takesup land. To maintain current consumption trends theworld will also need to produce 50–70 percent more foodby 2050, increasingly under drought conditions and onpoor soils.
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Towards Effective National Forest Funds

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
United States of America, Rwanda, Gambia, Chile, Peru, Indonesia, Vanuatu, Jamaica, Italy, Costa Rica, Finland, Colombia, Kenya, Laos, Philippines, Malaysia, Cameroon, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Netherlands, Argentina, Bhutan, Brazil, Asia, Africa, Americas
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
forest land
<i>Towards effective national forest funds</i> addresses the need for more information on the way NFFs work and how best to establish and manage them. It shares the lessons that have emerged from the establishment and management of NFFs with the aim of supporting countries in designing and operating NFFs effectively according to their specific needs and circumstances.
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La tenencia y REDD+

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2016
Mozambique, China, Indonesia, Congo, Guinea, Costa Rica, Cameroon, Nepal, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ecuador, Cambodia, Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, Kenya
land tenure
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First Meeting of the Global Soil Partnership Plenary Assembly

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Algeria, Bangladesh, Dominican Republic, Chile, Germany, China, Zimbabwe, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Iceland, Costa Rica, Colombia, Thailand, Italy, Cameroon, Cuba, Argentina, Russia, Czech Republic, Brazil, Austria
land management
sustainable development
Meeting symbol/code: GSPPA-I/13/Report
Session: Sess.1