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  1. Library Resource
    Tree based carbon storage and land tenure cover image
    Journal Articles & Books
    October, 2010
    Global

    Tree-Based Carbon Storage in Developing Countries: Neglect of the Social Sciences Jon D. Unruha a Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  2. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    March, 2016
    Global

    What is Linked Open Data?

    Linked Open Data is a way of enriching, connecting, and linking data in structured, machine readable and standardized formats under open licenses. Linked Open Data enables the same content to be represented in multiple ways in different places simultaneously.

    Advantages of Linked Open Data

    Efficient use of resources
    Linked Open Data reduces redundancy by building upon and the work of others rather than replicating existing systems.

  3. Library Resource

    A brief analysis based on data from the Land Matrix in current dynamic and complex climate & land governance discourse

    Reports & Research
    July, 2016
    Global

    Based on data from the Land Matrix database, this paper briefly analyses large-scale land acquisitions in the context of current complex and dynamic land and climate governance discourse. The paper tries to explain the inter linkages between land and climate governance, within the water-food-energy nexus, and the increasing and important role for science, technology and innovation in agriculture in order to become more resilient to current and future challenges in climate and land governance.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2016
    Africa

    Evidence updates, produced by LEGEND’s Core Land Support Team, provide a series of short briefs, summarising emerging bodies of evidence from different sources on key themes related to land governance or particular country issues. They offer technical advisers, policy-makers and researchers a way of keeping abreast of research to provide a source of quick evidence-based pointers on what to do and what to avoid in land-related policy and programming.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2016
    Africa

    This Evidence update builds on and nuances the conclusions drawn in DFID’s Topic Guide on Women’s Empowerment in a Changing Agricultural and Rural Context (Murray, 2015).

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    August, 2016
    Western Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Large-scale dislocation of populations due to land expropriations and armed conflictpresent significant difficulties for political stability and food security in fragile states.With increased use of mass claims programs by the international community andgovernments in order to attend to the problem, attention is focusing on what works.While organizing mass claims programs is challenging, the real difficulty is derivingremedies that are realistic, effective, implementable, and that fit the wide variety of circumstances that people, communities and nations find themselves.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Global

    Across most contexts, government data sources on land are largely inaccessible, from land administration data, such as parcel data and ownership information to land investments, contract data and even policy information. In considering data on property ownership specifically, the latest version of the Open Data Barometer shows only two countries, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, obtained a full 100% score on the topic of Land Ownership. When this land administration data is made available, it is commonly made public via a web portal rather than as open data.

  8. Library Resource
    Manuals & Guidelines
    January, 2016
    Global

    Bangladesh that collects detailed data on (1) plot-level agricultural production and practices, (2) dietary intake of individual household members, (3) anthropometric measurements (height and weight) of all household members, and (4) data to measure women’s empowerment in agriculture index (WEAI). A community survey supplements the BIHS data to provide information on area-specific contextual factors. The BIHS covers 6500 households in 325 primary sampling units.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2017
    Global

    This analytical paper explores how political economy analysis can help practitioners make sense of the issues, and distils insights from practical experience on how legal empowerment initiatives can rise to the challenge.

    It is aimed at legal empowerment practioners and analysts.

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