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  1. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2015
    Mali, Ghana, Africa

    Ever since the oil, financial and food crises of 2008, sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed a marked increase in large-scale investment in agricultural land. The drivers of this investment are varied and include growing food, water and energy insecurity as well as social and economic interests of investors and recipient countries. The shape of these investments and their eventual outcomes are equally influenced by the existing land and water governance systems in the host countries.

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2015
    South Africa

    The preservation, development and sustainable use of agricultural land are of vital importance to ensure longterm food security in South Africa. These principles of food security as well as an integrated, inclusive rural economy underpin the core focus areas of the National Development Plan, Vision 2030 (NDP).

  3. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2015

    Ever since the oil, financial and food crises of 2008, sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed a marked increase in large-scale investment in agricultural land. The drivers of this investment are varied and include growing food, water and energy insecurity as well as social and economic interests of investors and recipient countries. The shape of these investments and their eventual outcomes are equally influenced by the existing land and water governance systems in the host countries.

  4. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    December, 2015
    Laos

    The Lao Land and Forest Allocation Policy (LFAP) was intended to provide clearer property rights for swidden farmers living in mountainous areas. These lands are legally defined as “State” forests but are under various forms of customary tenure. The policy involves demarcating village territorial boundaries, ecological zoning of lands within village territories, and finally allocating a limited number of individual land parcels to specific households for farming.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    June, 2015
    Brazil

    Mudanças importantes ocorreram no cenário político institucional e nas dinâmicas sociais nos últimos vinte anos no Brasil. O marco inicial destas transformações pode ser fixado a partir da promulgação da nova Constituição que rege o tecido jurídico e societário brasileiro na atualidade. Todavia, fixar uma marca temporal é sempre complicado quando se trata de entender os pro‑ cessos sociais e suas mudanças, especialmente quando sabemos das interfaces entre passado e presente.

  6. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Fiji, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea

    Climate change projections internationally accepted as being reliable indicate that most countries in the Pacific region will suffer large-scale negative impacts from climate change. These impacts are likely to include elevated air and sea-surface temperatures, increasingly unpredictable rainfall patterns, rising sea levels, and intensification of extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones and El Niño-related droughts.

  7. Library Resource
    May, 2015
    Ethiopia

    This paper uses a stochastic dynamic
    programming model to characterize the optimal
    savings-consumption decisions and the role of livestock
    inventories as a buffer stock in rural Ethiopia. The results
    show that relatively land-rich households use accumulation
    and liquidation of cattle and other animal inventories for
    partial consumption smoothing, while low-income households
    appear not to do so. The results highlight the need for

  8. Library Resource
    February, 2015
    India

    In the past 50 years, Indian agriculture
    has undergone a major transformation, from dependence on
    food aid to becoming a consistent net food exporter. The
    gradual reforms in the agricultural sector (following the
    broader macro-reforms of the early 1990s) spurred some
    unprecedented innovations and changes in the food sector
    driven by private investment. These impressive achievements
    must now be viewed in light of the policy and investment

  9. Library Resource
    April, 2015
    Haiti

    The objective of this report is to
    examine the linkages between rural economic activity, food
    insecurity and poverty in Haiti as a means of determining
    the barriers to rural development. The analysis draws on a
    newly available set of house-hold level living standards
    measurement data collected in 2012 (ECVMAS). About 70.7
    percent of all rural households are poor, and education
    levels are low with an average of 2.8 years of education for

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