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Seeing is believing? Evidence from an extension network experiment

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Mozambique
contract farming
agriculture
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La Jornada en el Campo - Edición América Campesina

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2017
Latin America and the Caribbean
agriculture
farmers
Este número de La Jornada del Campo contiene artículos relativos al campo del continente Americano; los autores son expertos de los diversos países.
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Agricultura Familiar Brasileira: Desafios e Perspectivas de Futuro

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Brazil
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agrarian reform
agrarian structure
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
agriculture
communal territory
development
food security
gender equity in access to land
local communities
rural areas
rural development
rural population
sustainable development
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
territory
women
A Agricultura Brasileira se destaca entre as maiores do mundo e representa uma fonte de alimentos e de matéria prima para muitos países. Nela estão presentes diversos modos de fazer Agricultura, entre os quais a produção Agrícola Familiar, encontrada em extensas e importantes regiões do país. A agricultura familiar no Brasil é crescentemente uma forma social de produção reconhecida pela sociedade brasileira, por suas contribuições materiais e imateriais.
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Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Africa
Land & Gender
agrarian structure
agriculture
farming systems
women
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Olhares Agroecológicos: Análise econômico-ecológica de agroecossistemas em sete territórios brasileiros

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Brazil
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
agriculture
agroforestry systems
communal territory
community forestry
deforestation
forest conservation
forest land
forest law
local communities
natural resources management
nature reserves
rural areas
rural population
sustainable development
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
territory
A ideia de produzir este livro teve origem em um esforço compartilhado por organizações e redes vinculadas à Articulação Nacional de Agroecologia (ANA) de sistematizar evidências dos benefícios do enfoque agroecológico na gestão técnico-econômica da agricultura familiar, aqui apreendida em suas variadas formas de organização produtiva e expressão identitária.
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Biomas brasileiros e a teia da vida

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Brazil
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
agriculture
agroforestry systems
communal territory
development
forest land
indigenous peoples' lands
Indigenous Peoples
natural resources management
nature reserves
rural areas
rural population
sustainable development
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
territory
Conscientes do colapso civilizacional com que nos defrontamos como espécie humana e inspirados pela Campanha da Fraternidade deste ano, cujo tema é Fraternidade: Biomas Brasileiros e Defesa da Vida e que tem como lema Cultivar e Guardar a Criação (Gn 2,15), a edição de número 500 da revista IHU On-Line debate o tema que também é assunto central do ciclo de conferências promovido pelo Instituto Humanitas Unisinos – IHU a partir do dia 15 de março até o final do mês de junho deste ano.
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Unidades de Conservação mais desmatadas da Amazônia legal (2012-2015)

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Amazonia, Brazil
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
communal territory
deforestation
forest conservation
forest land
forest law
forest management plans
forestry
local communities
natural resources management
nature reserves
rural areas
territory
water management
As Unidades de Conservação cobrem 22% da Amazônia Legal e são uma estratégia eficaz para conservar animais, plantas e serviços ambientais, conter o desmatamento e manter o equilíbrio climático do Planeta. Contudo, as taxas de desmatamento em UCs vêm aumentando – em 2015 já superava a de 2012 em 79% –, assim como sua participação no desmatamento total da Amazônia, que passou de 6% em 2008 para 12% em 2015.
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Creating learning and action space in South Africa’s post-apartheid land redistribution program

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2017
South Africa
Land & Investments
land acquisitions
land policies
land reform
land rights
This paper uses the case of South Africa’s latest land redistribution strategy known as the Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy, to explore whether, and how, research can have direct and positive impacts on beneficiaries of land reform. The study is situated within the practice of action research: to explore how it can generate knowledge that can be shared back and forth between stakeholders, as well as how it may ignite changes that the participants desire. The findings are that Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy is not meeting the overall goals land reform.
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A spatio-temporal analysis of forest loss related to cocaine trafficking in Central America

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2017
Central America, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
Land & Corruption
corruption
deforestation
forest land
A growing body of evidence suggests that criminal activities associated with drug trafficking networks are a progressively important driver of forest loss in Central America. However, the scale at which drug trafficking represents a driver of forest loss is not presently known. We estimated the degree to which narcotics trafficking may contribute to forest loss using an unsupervised spatial clustering of 15 spatial and temporal forest loss patch metrics developed from global forest change data.
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The Status of National Legal Frameworks for Valuing Compensation for Expropriated Land

An Analysis of Whether National Laws in 50 Countries/Regions across Asia, Africa, and Latin America Comply with International Standards on Compensation Valuation

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2017
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Global
VGGT
expropriation
compensation
compulsory acquisitions
land investments
land valuation
land tenure
The challenges associated with determining fair compensation for expropriated land have been extensively discussed and debated among scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and the public. However, to date, a comprehensive study of national-level compensation procedures established by law considering whether such procedures meet internationally recognized standards on compensation valuation has not been conducted.