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Land Governance Lost in Translation - Exploring Semantic Technologies to Increase Discoverability of New Technologies & Data

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2020
Global
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
land administration
land information systems
geographical information systems
land governance
land management
open data
Language and technology barriers are a very serious constraint to effectively exchange and learn from land data, information and technologies across the globe. We would like to explore whether we can gain inspiration from how semantic web technologies have overcome knowledge-sharing challenges in other sectors, such as the agriculture sector. With emerging technologies, new tools and ever-growing amounts of land data, we face a very real risk of losing the overview. Without this overview, data is much less likely to be used and thus be useful.
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Armed conflict and mining induced land-use transition in northern Nimba County, Liberia

Reports & Research
January, 2019
Liberia
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
land governance
environment
deforestation
land use
land use change
mining
natural resources management
land conflicts
local communities
This study determined pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict land use change and analysed the impact of armed conflict on the intensity of land use change in northern Nimba County. Landsat images of 1986, 1990, 2002 and 2016 were classif
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Engineering Ethnic Conflict: The Toll of Ethiopia's Plantation Development on Suri People

Reports & Research
November, 2014
Ethiopia
Land in post-conflict settings
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
land governance
corruption
land use
foreign investment
displacement
land conflicts
local communities
Recently dubbed “Africa’s Lion” (in allusion to the discourse around “Asian Tigers”), Ethiopia is celebrated for its steady economic growth, including a growing number of millionaires compared to other African nations. However, as documented in previous research by the Oakland Institute, the Ethiopian government’s “development strategy,” is founded on its policy of leasing millions of hectares (ha) of land to foreign investors.
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Backroom Bullying: The Role of the United States Government in the Herakles Farms’ Land Grab in Cameroon

Reports & Research
October, 2016
Cameroon
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
land governance
forest conservation
land grabbing
land access
land ownership
local communities
Backroom Bullying: The Role of the United States Government in the Herakles Farms’ Land Grab in Cameroon, shows how bullying by US government officials may have played a critical role in the granting of nearly 20,000 ha by the Cameroonian government to the US-based firm Herakles Farms in 2013, instead of the cancellation of clearly flawed project.
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COUNTRY GENDER ASSESSMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE RURAL SECTOR IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Reports & Research
October, 2019
Papua New Guinea
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
rural development
agriculture
land rights
land access
women
In 2017, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) commissioned a gender assessment of the agriculture and rural sector in Papua New Guinea. The assessment was carried out in consultation with the Women in Agriculture Development Unit (WiADU) of the National Department of Agriculture and Livestock (NDAL), in line with FAO- Papua New Guinea’s continued commitment to support the Government of Papua New Guinea.
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Land of the Unexpected: Natural Resource Conflict and Peace Building in Papua New Guinea

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2016
Papua New Guinea
Land Conflicts
land governance
land law
land use
natural resources management
land dispute
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has long been a site of analysis for exploring the links between natural resources and conflict, having been cited as an example in prominent studies of the “natural resource curse” and used as a source of learning in international debates on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Over the past decade, this scholarship has expanded to encompass conflict analysis and peace building.
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Land and Conflict in Papua New Guinea: The Role of Land Mediation

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2014
Papua New Guinea
Land Conflicts
land administration
land governance
conflicts
natural resources management
land dispute
land dispute resolution
Anecdotal evidence suggests that conflicts over land and extractive resource developments are on the rise across Papua New Guinea. These micro-level conflicts have the potential to scaleup and feed into large-scale armed conflicts—such as those that occurred on Bougainville and in neighbouring Solomon Islands—which require costly external intervention. Against this backdrop, this paper examines PNG’s legally-mandated land mediation system in theory and practice. A number of weaknesses are identified and described; and a case study of an apparently successful “hybrid” approach is discussed.
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Land governance in Brunei Darussalam

Reports & Research
January, 2019
Brunei Darussalam
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
land administration
land governance
land policies
land management
leases
land ownership
Land governance is proven to be significant in the development and survival of any nation. However, challenges associated with land governance have been a continuing debate as they keep changing due to the progress of any given society. Most researches on land governance have concentrated on the general aspects of land administration and management with reference to best practices of good governance.
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Characterising Land Cover Change in Brunei Darussalam’s Capital District

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2020
Brunei Darussalam
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Urban Tenure
land use planning
urban planning
urbanization
urban areas
land cover
land cover change
urban land
In fast-developing regions, like Southeast-Asia, monitoring urban areas presents a challenge given the lack of publicly available data. This is an issue that precludes the nuances of a city’s growth and undermines the way land-use is considered with respect to planning. The issue of data availability is very much present in the small nation of Brunei. Little is still known about the spatiotemporal evolution of its urban realm; in particular, with regard to its national development planning.
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Sertão Quilombola

A Formação dos Quilombos no Sertão de Pernambuco

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2008
Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
communal territory
territory
land conflicts
community land rights
communal ownership
common property
O propósito deste Sertão Quilombola - a Formação dos Quilombos no Sertão de Pernambuco é publicizar os processos iniciais de territorialização e as diversas expressões de ocupação tradicional dos territórios quilombolas da Região. Dessa forma contirbui para desmistificar o senso comum que insiste em focar exclusivamente as ligações entre essas comunidades e reminiscências históricas de antigos quilombos de escravos fugitivos.