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Promises, Power, and Poverty: Corporate Land Deals and Rural Women in Africa

January, 2013
Land & Food Security
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
farmland
women
land
women
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Environmental livelihood security in Southeast Asia and Oceania: a water-energy-food-livelihoods nexus approach for spatially assessing change

January, 2014
Eastern Asia, Oceania
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
food security
sustainable development
climate change
environment
natural disasters
farmland
assessment
This document addresses the need for explicit inclusion of livelihoods within the environment nexus (water-energy-food security). The authors present a conceptualisation of ‘environmental livelihood security’, which combines the nexus perspective with sustainable livelihoods. The geographical focus of this paper is Southeast Asia and Oceania, which the authors highlight is a region currently wrought by the impacts of a changing climate.
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The politics of the emerging agro-industrial complex in Asia’s ‘final frontier’ - The war on food sovereignty in Burma

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2013
Myanmar
Land & Food Security
farmland
land policies
property rights
expropriation
land-use planning
farming systems
land governance
land grabbing
land tenure systems
land rights
land law
food security
Burma's dramatic turn-around from 'axis of evil' to western darling in the past year has been imagined as Asia's 'final frontier' for global finance institutions, markets and capital. Burma's agrarian landscape is home to three-fourths of the country's total population which is now being constructed as a potential prime investment sink for domestic and international agribusiness.
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Gender Dimensions in Nigerian Agriculture

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
October, 2013
Nigeria, Africa
Land & Food Security
agriculture
farmers
farmland
food security
land access
land rights
land tenure
rural areas
transaction costs
With a fast growing population requiring an ever growing supply of food, a national poverty rate of 63 percent, and a labor force that is dominated by agricultural work, Nigeria's efforts to boost agricultural productivity could not be better timed. Though women constitute a large share of the agricultural labor force in Nigeria, little is known about their activities, roles, and constraints in the sector.
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2012 Annual Report

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Eastern Africa, Western Africa, Southern Africa, Middle Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, Africa, Asia
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Gender
natural resources management
poverty
food security
capacity development
climate change
environment
agriculture
agricultural and rural legislation
land ownership
land rights
women
research
land investments
farmland
land degradation
natural disasters
sustainable land management
farmers
development agencies