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Rapport 2021 sur l'écart entre les besoins et les perspectives en matière d'adaptation aux changements climatiques

Alors même que le monde cherche à intensifier ses efforts pour réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, la nécessité de s'adapter aux effets du changement climatique déjà enclenchés est tout aussi importante.

Reports & Research
November, 2021
Africa, Middle Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe, Oceania
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land governance
environment
urban forestry
water management
land rights
La sixième édition du Rapport 2021 sur l'écart entre les besoins et les perspectives en matière d'adaptation aux changements climatiques : la tempête qui se lève, examine comment le monde s'adapte à ces impacts croissants.

Le rapport constate qu'il est urgent d'augmenter le financement de l'adaptation aux changements climatiques. Les coûts d'adaptation estimés dans les pays en développement sont cinq à dix fois supérieurs aux flux actuels de financement public de l'adaptation, et le fossé du financement de l'adaptation se creuse.
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Development of 3D Spatial Database Enabled IT Framework for Land Agencies: Case Studies of Delhi, India and Prague, Czech Republic

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Canada, Czech Republic, India, British Indian Ocean Territory, United States of America
development
land administration
land management
Rapid urbanization has led vertical infrastructural growth in different countries with differing economic development levels and social systems. The two cities, Prague and Delhi, are the capital cities of their respective countries and have significant vertical developments. However, the two cities represent the urban areas from countries having different economic development levels. The land agencies need to keep monitoring and managing the developments in a city. The paper proposes a conceptual 3D spatial database enabled IT framework for land agencies.
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Spatial Unevenness of Formation, Remediation and Persistence of Post-Agricultural Brownfields

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Czech Republic, United States of America
development
The fall of the Iron Curtain created a vacuum upon which large-scale collectivized agriculture was largely abandoned. Post-agricultural brownfields emerge in multiple manners across national, regional and local levels. While these sites remain rarely explored, we aimed to better understand the spatial consequences of the formation, persistence and reuse of these sites. The regions of South Bohemia and South Moravia in the Czech Republic are used to show the location of post-agricultural brownfields identified in 2004 through 2018.
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Tourism Development Options in Marginal and Less-Favored Regions: A Case Study of Slovakia´s Gemer Region

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Australia, Hungary, Lesotho, Romania, Slovakia, United States of America
development
Marginal and less-favored regions are characterized by negative migration balance, lower living standards, aging of the population, a lower number of employment opportunities, lower educational level, and lower investments in the territory. Gemer is one of these regions in Slovakia. On the other hand, the Gemer region has a very interesting history and many cultural monuments, nature protection areas, and UNESCO World Heritage sites that create options for tourism development. The monuments of the Gothic Road have the potential for religious tourism.
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Innovative Land Administration Approaches for Sustainable Development: Belarusian Success Factors

Reports & Research
July, 2016
Belarus, Brazil, Central African Republic, Norway, United States of America
development
land
land administration
sustainable development
Belarus has preserved its third position in Registering Property in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2014 report. Constant improvement of property registration procedures has allowed Belarus to achieve that. The Registering Property indicator takes into account three factors: the number of procedures required to transfer rights to property, the time spent on completing all the necessary procedures and the cost of procedures. From ”The Earth Summit“ in Brazil 1992 sustainable development recognized by almost all societies as one of the major global goals.
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The Role of the EU in Land Grabbing in Africa - CSO Monitoring 2009-2010 “Advancing African Agriculture” (AAA): The Impact of Europe’s Policies and Practices on African Agriculture and Food Security

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Africa
Land & Food Security
food security
land grabbing
This report examines the role of European Union (EU) member States, both collectively and individually, in the current reported wave of foreign land investment in Africa that has led to the current use of the term ‘land grabbing’.It discusses whether this role is consistent with the EU’s commitment to advance agriculture in Africa in order to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals and member states’ obligations under international human rights law.
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Experiences and Development Impacts of Securing Land Rights at Scale in Developing Countries: Case Studies of China and Vietnam

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Central African Republic, China, Ethiopia, Russia, Rwanda, United States of America, Vietnam, Asia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
development
land registration
land rights
scale
This paper reviews experiences and development impacts of a selected number of developing countries in Asia and Africa that have used emerging land registration approaches to rapidly secure land rights at scale. Rapid and scalable registration is essential to eliminate a major backlog of the world’s unregistered land, which stands at about 70 percent. The objective of the review, based on secondary data, is to draw lessons that can help accelerate land registration across many countries.
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Global Trends on Food Security Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Central African Republic, China, India, British Indian Ocean Territory, Russia, United States of America, Europe
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
land use
research
The issue of food security has been widely studied by the international community. To reveal the research situation as it pertains to food security objectively, this paper comprehensively utilizes bibliometrics techniques (i.e., Bibliometrix, VOSviewer, and CiteSpace) to explore the research status and development trends in the area of food security. The results show that: (1) food security research has shown an increasing trend during the past 30 years.
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Outmigration Drives Cropland Decline and Woodland Increase in Rural Regions of Southwest China

Volume 9 Issue 11

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2020
Central African Republic, United States of America, China, Russia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
urbanization
land cover
land use
migration
Rapid urbanisation in China has led to massive outmigration in rural regions, which has changed the regional labour force structure and can have various profound impacts as a result. This research used a case study in Southwest China to investigate how regional land use patterns have been changed in the context of rural outmigration and assessed the resulting dynamics on local ecological environment.
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Driving Dispossession: The Global Push to “Unlock the Economic Potential of Land”

Reports & Research
July, 2014
Zambia, Brazil, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Papua New Guinea
land governance
development
land economics
land investments
land rights
dispossession
Indigenous Peoples
Driving Dispossession: The Global Push to “Unlock the Economic Potential of Land,” sounds the alarm on the unprecedented wave of privatization of natural resources that is underway around the world. Through six case studies — Ukraine, Zambia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Brazil — the report details the myriad ways by which governments — willingly or under the pressure of financial institutions and Western donor agencies — are putting more land into so-called “productive use” in the name of development.