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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2018
    France, United States of America, Switzerland

    Currently there exists a disturbing urban problem exemplified by the excessive luxury apartments and glamorous office towers being built in cities around the world in the face of the increasing unaffordability of housing and lowcost work trade or craft space Seeking to address this complex problem this paper proposes a theoretical framework that uniquely addresses both the capitalist economic structure that drives the development process and the Marxistbased urban theory by which the socioeconomic outcomes are currently evaluated This framework takes as its metatheory the approach of Thomas

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2018
    Nigeria

    One of the negative effects of the high rate and pace of urbanisation in developing countries is the decay of urban centres While this decay has eaten deep into the fabric of these settlements turning them into urban slums and ghettoes with poor infrastructure the effects of the decay are multifarious Despite the fact that the economy is the lifewire of urban centres its untold downturn consequent upon urban decay is unimaginable because of the relationship that exists between environmental quality and economic growth This calls for a proactive approach called urban renewal towards the crea

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2018
    Nigeria, Portugal

    This paper assesses the impact of periurbanisation on housing environmental quality and residents sociodemography in IbejuLekki periurban in Lagos Nigeria Primary data was collected through administration of 370 questionnaires to household heads in purposively selected sixteen settlements in the study area while secondary data was sourced from spatial images land use maps and satellite images of the study area Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics while qualitative data was analysed using time series and satellite image analysis The result shows a spatial expansion du

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    May, 2017
    Morocco

    Des facteurs variés tels que les politiques publiques en faveur du relogement des populations démunies, la promotion de la privatisation des droits fonciers agricoles, ainsi que plus généralement la croissance économique ont favorisé l’étalement urbain dans les principales villes du Maghreb dont Meknès au Maroc. Cette urbanisation s’intensifie au détriment des terres à fort potentiel agronomique malgré les lois pour la préservation des terres agricoles. À Meknès, les agriculteurs familiaux situés en périphérie urbaine ont fourni la grande majorité du foncier constructible.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2017
    Senegal

    Launched on 18 May 2012, the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN) is a G8 (now G7) initiative spearheaded by former US President Barack Obama. The New Alliance aims to increase private investment in African agriculture as a means to “achieve sustained and inclusive agricultural growth and raise 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years.” In total, 10 African countries have signed on to the NAFSN.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2017
    Latin America and the Caribbean, Cuba

    El presente trabajo estudia las principales transformaciones introducidas en la economía cubana en el periodo de 1975 a 2013, con un énfasis particular en la Tercera Reforma Agraria puesta en vigor a partir de 1993, la cual significó el tránsito hacia un nuevo modelo agrario cuyo objetivo principal sería resolver el problema de la soberanía alimenticia. Con esta nueva reforma agraria se reconfigura una vez más la forma de tenencia de la tierra en Cuba, estando actual- mente el 54% (de las tierras) en manos del Estado y el 46% restante es propiedad no estatal.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2017
    Latin America and the Caribbean, Cuba

    Cuba, isla del Caribe que cuenta con una superficie total de 10.988,6 miles de hectáreas, siendo agrícola 6.619,5 fue objeto de grandes transformaciones en el agro a partir de 1959.

    Una visión de nuestro contexto nacional y regional, en las que influyen cuestiones tan medulares como el crecimiento económico, la población y el territorio, la mejoría de sus condiciones en cuanto al medio ambiente y la calidad de vida de sus habitantes; obliga a los gobiernos a lograr un equilibrio territorial, funcional y económico, en el ámbito de todo el sistema del país.

  8. Library Resource

    Sustainability

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2017
    China

    Farmland abandonment, including perennial and seasonal abandonment, is an important process of land use change that matters most to food security. Although there is a great deal of studies on farmland abandonment, seasonal abandonment, which is as serious as perennial abandonment, has attracted little academic attention. This paper takes Hunan Province in central China as its study area and uses a spatial regression model to examine the driving factors of seasonal farmland abandonment at the county level.

  9. Library Resource

    Sustainability

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2017
    Global

    Land-based production provides societies with indispensable goods such as food, feed, fibre, and energy. Yet, with economic globalisation and global population growth, the environmental and social trade-offs of their production are ever more complex. This is particularly so since land use changes are increasingly embedded in networks of long-distance flows of, e.g., material, energy, and information.

  10. Library Resource

    Sustainability

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2017
    Uganda

    The extent of land affected by degradation in Uganda ranges from 20% in relatively flat and vegetation-covered areas to 90% in the eastern and southwestern highlands. Land degradation has adversely affected smallholder agro-ecosystems including direct damage and loss of critical ecosystem services such as agricultural land/soil and biodiversity. This study evaluated the extent of bare grounds in Nakasongola, one of the districts in the Cattle Corridor of Uganda and the yield responses of maize (Zea mays) and common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to different tillage methods in the district.

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