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Women in agriculture: Four myths

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2018
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
food security
farming systems
land rights
farmers
women
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Revue du Secteur Foncier en Milieu Urbain et Péri-urbain : Mettre Le Marché Foncier au Service d’Un Développement Efficient et Inclusif du Grand Lomé

Reports & Research
January, 2019
Togo
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
climate change
farmland
agricultural land management
occupation
Le Togo a connu une forte croissance économique dont la poursuite devra être soutenue par l’amélioration du secteur foncier. La croissance économique de plus de 5% annuellement depuis 2009 est parmi les meilleurs du continent. Cette évolution s’est accompagnée d’une réduction de la pauvreté qui demeure cependant élevée à environ 55% (2015). La ville de Lomé a été l’un des piliers de ce développement, servant de base arrière au Port de Lomé, principal moteur de l’économie du pays.
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Gender, agriculture and rural development in Georgia

Reports & Research
December, 2018
Georgia
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
development
rural development
food security
agricultural and rural legislation
land policies
rural areas
agricultural land management
agriculture
women
FAO is committed to reducing gender inequalities through its interventions, and this gender assessment has been produced as part of its broader efforts to generate evidence and knowledge in compliance with its Policy on Gender Equality. This assessment highlights the challenges, gaps and practices in the area of gender and agriculture and rural development in Georgia that need to be considered by policy-makers and project managers in their decision-making and their implementation of development interventions. The main gender inequalities in Georgia are reiterated in this assessment.
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Climate change and potential impacts on agriculture in Bhutan: a discussion of pertinent issues

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2018
Bhutan
Land & Food Security
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
land policies
land-use planning
rural planning
climate change
land degradation
agricultural land management
agriculture
Background: The Himalayan country of Bhutan is typically an agrarian country with about 57% of the people depending on agriculture. However, farming has been constrained by the mountainous topography and rapid changes in environmental variabilities. With climate change, agricultural production and food security is likely to face one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century.
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Impact of land administration programs on agricultural productivity and rural development: existing evidence, challenges and new approaches

Reports & Research
October, 2018
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
agriculture
farmers
farming systems
poverty
property rights
rural development
sustainable development
Investment in land administration projects is often considered key for agricultural productivity and rural development in developing countries. But the evidence on such interventions is remarkably mixed. This paper reviews the literature and discusses a number of challenges related to the analysis of the impacts of land administration programs, focusing on developing countries where the starting position is one of land administration systems based on the Napoleonic code, with existing individual rights that may be imperfect and insecure.
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Community Approaches to Sustainable Land Management and Agroecology Practices

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Eritrea, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, South Africa, Gambia, Nigeria, Barbados, Cuba, China, Mongolia, Armenia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
climate change
land degradation
agricultural land management
agriculture
forest management plans
sustainable land management
biodiversity
As of 2017, SGP has awarded over 3,800 small grants to land degradation projects in over 120 countries, many of which are in regions with extreme levels of poverty and food insecurity across Africa and Latin America. Africa, in particular, is experiencing the highest population growth of the developing world, while being exposed and vulnerable to the rising impact from climate change.
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Can strategic spatial planning contribute to land degradation reduction in urban regions? State of the art and future research

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Global
Land & Food Security
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
land management
environment
land degradation
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
Land degradation is becoming a serious environmental issue threatening fertile agricultural soils and other natural resources. There are many driving forces behind land degradation. The expansion of artificial surfaces due to various economic activities, such as housing, industry, and transport infrastructure, known as soil sealing, constitutes one of the most intensive forms of land degradation in urban regions. Measures to halt and reverse land degradation require both strong land-use management policies, as well as effective spatial planning mechanisms.
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How does organic agriculture contribute to food security of small land holders?: A case study in the North of Thailand

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Thailand
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
food security
environment
title deeds
land titling
There has been a trend to encourage organic agriculture in response to improve global food security. This article investigated how organic agriculture contributed to food security of small land holders experiencing organic agriculture. It involved in-depth interview, focus group, and participatory observation from a purposive sample of thirty participants at San Sai and Muang Wa Villages, Luang Neua Sub-District, Doi Sa Ket District, Chiang Mai Province, the north of Thailand.
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Representing large-scale land acquisitions in land use change scenarios for the Lao PDR

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Laos
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
food security
land distribution
land reform
land investments
land acquisitions
land grabbing
Agricultural large-scale land acquisition (LSLA) is a process that is currently not captured by land change models. We present a novel land change modeling approach that includes processes governing LSLAs and simulates their interactions with other land systems. LSLAs differ from other land change processes in two ways: (1) their changes affect hundreds to thousands of contiguous hectares at a time, far surpassing other land change processes, e.g., smallholder agriculture, and (2) as policy makers value LSLA as desirable or undesirable, their agency significantly affects LSLA occurrence.
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Modelling Land Sharing and Land Sparing Relationship with Rural Population in the Cerrado

Volume 7 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2018
Global
Land & Food Security
rural population
food security
agriculture
agricultural land management
Agricultural expansion and intensification enabled growth of food production but resulted in serious environmental changes. In light of that, debates concerning sustainability in agriculture arises on scientific literature. Land sharing and land sparing are two opposite models for framing agricultural sustainability. The first aims to integrate agricultural activities with biodiversity conservation by means of enhancing the quality of the agricultural matrix in the landscape towards a wildlife friendly matrix.