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The Progress of the Chinese Gender Awareness Reflected in the Transition from the Equality between Men and Women to the Gender Justice

January, 2011
China
Land & Gender
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
development
women
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To reallocate or not: Reconsidering the dilemma in China’s agricultural land tenure policy

January, 2011
China
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land tenure
land
property
families
farmland
tenure security
conflicts
farmers
farmland
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Comparing the profitability of farming and forestry

Reports & Research
August, 2010
New Zealand
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farming systems
forestry
land use
land use
This paper updates an analysis of returns from major productive land uses in New Zealand carried out in 2008. Trends in profitability over time are shown, and a preliminary investigation of the relationship between land-use change towards forestry (new land planting) and forestry profitability is described.
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Figuring rural development : concepts and cases of land use, sustainability and integrative indicators

Reports & Research
March, 2010
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
food security
land use
land use change
poverty
rural development
Sustainable economic development is essential for hundreds of millions of poor households in rural areas. This book represents a merger of environmental science and rural development economics. It elucidates the linkage between rational choice theory and theories on land use change. It builds a quantitative framework to connect the environmental method of Material Flow Analysis to basic issues of rural development such as agricultural intensification and food security.
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Farmer's decisions and landscape change : an actor-based approach for land-use research

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
farmers
farming systems
land use
land-use planning
land-use planning
rural planning
This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to link conceptually individual decisions and land-use/cover change (LUCC) patterns in rural regions. The second objective is to use these concepts to explore the influence of policy on LUCC as a response of farmers' decisions. To achieve these objectives, different approaches are used. Firstly, agent typologies are used to simplify and allocate the regional diversity of farmers' decisions. Secondly, an agent-based approach is used to link individual decisions and LUCC patterns in a regional model.
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Landelijk Grondgebruiksbestand Nederland versie 6 (LGN6) : vervaardiging, nauwkeurigheid en gebruik

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Netherlands
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
agriculture
farming systems
geographical information systems
land use
land-use planning
monitoring
monitoring
De snelle veranderingen die zich in Nederland voordoen met betrekking tot het gebruik van ruimte en de conflicterende belangen van veel gebruikers van deze ruimte, zorgen voor een voortdurende behoefte aan actuele geografische bestanden. Eén van deze bestanden is het Landelijke Grondgebruiksbestand Nederland (LGN). Sinds 1986 wordt met een periodiciteit van 3-5 jaar het LGN-bestand geproduceerd. Het LGN6-bestand is een rasterbestand met een resolutie van 25*25 m. Het bestand geeft het Nederlandse landgebruik voor de jaren 2007/2008 weer.
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Gender and Climate Change: Supporting Resources Collection

Training Resources & Tools
Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2011
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
food security
climate change
forestry
natural disasters
land rights
agriculture
This Supporting Resources Collection - part of the BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Climate Change- showcases existing work on gender and climate change. It presents summaries of a mix of conceptual and research papers, policy briefings, advocacy documents, case study material and practical tools from diverse regions. Examining why a focus on gender and climate change is important, the resources look at the human and gender impacts of climate change, the global and national responses to climate change and locally relevant gender aware responses to climate change.
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Rising global interest in farmland: can it yield sustainable and equitable benefits?

January, 2011
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
food security
climate change
land use
displacement
land
poverty
farmland
agriculture
capacity development
This paper analyses issues that affect the role of agriculture as a source of economic development, rural livelihoods and environmental services. Using experiences of land expansion in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa, it assesses the extent to which recent demand for land differs from earlier processes of area expansion and identifies the current challenges, in terms of land governance, institutional capacity and communities’ awareness of their rights.
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Biocharred pathways to sustainability? Triple wins, livelihoods and the politics of technological promise

January, 2010
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
climate change
land use
food security
Considerable hype and debate are currently surrounding the potential of biochar (charcoal created through the burning of biomass in low oxygen environments) in climate change mitigation and agriculture. This report attempts to summarise the arguments, assumptions and interests in the biochar debate and offer reflections on its prospects. The report begins by outlining what it calls the triple-win of biochar. The production of biochar can be tuned to release bioenergy or biofuels in the form of syngas and bio-oil, thus providing decarbonised biomass fuel.
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The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability

January, 2011
Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Moldova, Belarus, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Asia, Northern America, Northern Africa, Eastern Asia, Oceania, Southern Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
food security
climate change
land use
fisheries
poverty
agriculture
The global food system will experience an unprecedented combination of pressures over the next 40 years. Global population size will increase and competition for land, water and energy will intensify, while the effects of climate change will become increasingly apparent. Over this period, globalisation will continue, exposing the food system to novel economic and political pressures.This final report of the Foresight Global Food and Farming Futures Project argues that decisive action needs to take place now. The report identifies five considerable challenges ahead: