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    ’Land Grabs’ in Africa: Can the Deals Work for Development?

    Reports & Research
    September, 2009
    Africa
    Land & Investments
    Land & Food Security
    land
    land deals
    land acquisitions
    food security
    scale
    agriculture

    For many millions in the developing world, land is central to livelihoods, food security, even identity – the result of a direct dependence on agriculture and natural resources. It is not surprising that a recent wave of large-scale land acquisitions in Africa, Central and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America has sparked a major debate. The briefing provides an analysis of this complex and shifting situation, focusing on Africa.

  2. Library Resource

    Secure Land Rights for All

    Reports & Research
    September, 2009
    Africa
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Land & Food Security
    climate change
    land rights
    food security
    land

    Covers the rush to acquire land in Africa by foreign governments and private investors, fuelled by fears for global food security in the face of climate change and volatile food prices on the international market. Warns that the political and economic risks of these land purchases are colossal and outweigh any gains, and argues that African governments must make food security and sufficiency for their own people paramount.

  3. Library Resource

    Land policy development in an African context

    Reports & Research
    October, 2009
    Mozambique
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Land & Food Security
    Land & Gender
    advocacy
    land access
    natural resources management

    Land is critical to the economic, social and cultural development of many countries.

  4. Library Resource

    Renewable Natural Resources

    Practical Lessons for Conflict-Sensitive Development

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2009
    Land Conflicts
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Land & Food Security
    Urban Tenure
    adjudication
    capacity development
    climate change
    common property
    farmers
    food security
    land degradation
    land law
    land management
    land rights
    land tenure
    local communities
    property rights
    rural areas
    sustainable development
    urbanization

    This paper explores how a 'conflict and violence sensitive' framework in project assessment, design and implementation facilitates early identification and mitigation of negative consequences of competition and dispute, and promotes sustainable development over the longer term. It discusses the role of renewable resources in perpetuating conflict and violence, and distills lessons from selected development programming experiences in managing conflict risks associated with these dynamics.

  5. Library Resource

    Wildlife Conservation in Zambia: Impacts on Rural Household Welfare

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2009
    Zambia
    Land & Food Security
    food security

    Tourism is one of the most rapidly growing economic sectors in the world, especially indeveloping countries; growth rates in international tourist arrivals and receipts in these countries are roughly double the world average. In Zambia, the tourism sector has grown steadily in recent years; international tourist arrivals from 1990 to 2005 grew at an average annual rate of 9.7%, and tourism receipts grew at 10.2%, compared to average growth rates for developing countries of 6.6% and 9.9%, respectively.

  6. Library Resource

    Access to Land and Poverty Reduction in Rural Zambia: Connecting the Policy Issues

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2009
    Zambia
    Land & Food Security
    food security
    land

    Key Policy Message:- Despite having relatively low population densities, inadequate access to land is one of the major causes of rural poverty in Zambia.- The apparent paradox of inadequate access to land for many rural households in a country of low population density is partially reconciled when taking into account that economically viable arable land requires at least some degree of access to basic services, water, road infrastructure, and markets.

  7. Library Resource

    Quantitative Analysis of Dynamic Change of Cultivated Land Pressure in Arid and Semi-arid Areas Based on Food Security - A Case of Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, China

    Journal Articles & Books
    September, 2009
    China
    Land & Food Security
    food security

    Taking the Jiuquan City, Guansu Provice, China as an example, according to the 1997-2007 Gansu Statistical Yearbook, Jiuquan Statistical Yearbook, the Second National Land Investigation in Jiuquan City and other relevant statistical data, models of minimum cultivated area per capita and pressure index of cultivated land are used based on food security.

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