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Emerging Livelihood Vulnerabilities in an Urbanizing and Climate Uncertain Environment for the Case of a Secondary City in Thailand

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2018
Thailand
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
urban planning
urbanization
environment
climate change
periurban areas
urban areas
urban land
water
water management
urban population
ncreasing flood risks in Thailand are leading to new challenges for flood management and subsequently for livelihoods, which are still significantly agricultural. Policy makers prefer building flood protection infrastructure over utilizing non-structural measures like urban planning regulations to mitigate risks. We argue that unplanned urbanization intensifies flood risks and livelihood vulnerability and may even create new poverty patterns in peri-urban areas.
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South Africa’s Land Resource in the Water Energy Food (WEF) Nexus Context

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2022
South Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use change
water management
Agricultural activities are directly dependent on the availability and quality of natural resources, particularly land and water. While the availability of land has featured strongly in South Africa’s growth and transformation policy agendas, this piece focusses on presenting a more detailed view of the quantity and quality of South Africa’s land resource, and how this impacts the agricultural use and viability of land resources in sustaining South Africa growth objectives.
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Land Acquisition and the Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Techniques: A Duration Analysis for Kenya and The Philippines

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2012
Kenya, Philippines
Land Degradation & Tenure
land conservation
water management
land acquisitions
land ownership
smallholders
This paper analyzes the adoption behavior of smallholder farmers using comparable plot-level duration data for Kenya and The Philippines. We find that adoption behavior is strongly linked to the process of land ownership transfer. This relationship is found both for data from Kenya and The Philippines and is robust to the inclusion of observed and unobserved village, household, plot, and time factors.
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A Study of Women's Role in Irrigated Agriculture in the Lower Vaksh River Basin, Tajikistan

Reports & Research
December, 2020
Tajikistan
Land & Gender
gender equity
agricultural land management
agriculture
water management
women
The study examined women’s roles and gender gaps in land operation and farming, labor arrangements in agriculture and water management, and feminization of agriculture in the Lower Vaksh River Basin in Tajikistan.
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New and emerging issues: land tenure

Note by the secretariat

Legislation & Policies
UN Resolutions
August, 2019
Global
Land & Food Security
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
VGGT
gender equity
land governance
poverty
food security
land degradation
farming systems
water management
land economics
land tenure
tenure security
women
As per the provisions of rule 10 of the rules of procedures of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Conference of the Parties (COP), the second intersessional meeting of the Bureau of the thirteenth session of the COP (COP 13) held in Guiyang, China, on 26 February 2019, endorsed the inclusion of a new agenda item on land tenure, under new and emerging issues, for consideration at COP 14. The Bureau further requested the secretariat to submit a background document in that respect.
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Creating an Enabling Environment for Land Degradation Neutrality and its potential contribution to enhancing well-being, livelihoods and the environment

Reports & Research
December, 2019
Global
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
VGGT
food security
land policies
land management
climate change
land degradation
abandoned land
drylands
biodiversity
water management
women
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015 include a target on land degradation neutrality (LDN) (SDG 15.3). Attaining and maintaining LDN requires addressing a land governance challenge to steer land management towards avoiding, reducing and reversing land degradation.
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Bhutan Systematic Country Diagnostic

Taking Bhutan’s Development Success to the Next Level

Reports & Research
January, 2020
Bhutan
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
development
sustainable development
land management
climate change
water
water management
land investments
Bhutan is a small, landlocked country deep in the eastern Himalayas between India and China. Over a horizontal distance of just 100-150 km, the elevation rises from about 150 meters above sea level in the south to over 7,000 meters in the north. The population of about 735,0001 is scattered across steep mountain slopes and valleys, many in remote and far-flung hamlets. This makes Bhutan one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world, ranked 182 out of 215 countries. Nearly half the land area is protected to help preserve biodiversity.
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Country profile – Bhutan

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Bhutan
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
agriculture
water
water management
land economics
This country profile is a summary of key information that gives an overview of the water resources and water use at the national level. It can support water-related policy and decision makers in their planning and monitoring activities as well as inform researchers, media and the general public.
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The priority dilemma of Western Sanctions on Syria's agricultural reconstruction

Syria reconstruction and Western sanctions

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Syrian Arab Republic
Land & Food Security
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
land documentation
post-conflict settings
rural development
food security
agrarian structure
infrastructure
land improvement
land restoration
water management
The current relationship between Syria and the West cripples any real prospect for reconstruction. Western sanctions on reconstruction as a political tool aimed at the regime, have wide-ranging negative impacts on the civilian population – while having little hope of political success. For agriculture the repercussions of sanctions on reconstruction are severe, affecting refugee returns, livelihood recovery, food security and stabilization.
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Final evaluation of the project “Adaptive management and monitoring of the Maghreb’s oases systems”

Reports & Research
July, 2020
Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania
land information systems
geographical information systems
gender equity in access to land
sustainable land management
natural resources management
water
water management
water rights
capacity development
The Maghreb's oases systems provide a major contribution to the region's food security, economy and natural resources. Despite this potential, oasis ecosystems are threatened by a range of complex factors related to the expansion of agricultural land and increasing scarcity of water resources. The project, implemented by FAO in Tunisia, Morocco and Mauritania from May 2016 to December 2019, brought together key stakeholders to address the lack of available information on the status of oases and to advocate on factual bases shared by all stakeholders and verifiable in the field.