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  1. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    Land is the integrating component of all
    livelihoods depending on farm, forest, rangeland, or water
    (rivers, lakes, coastal marine) habitats. Due to varying
    political, social, and economic factors, the heavy use of
    natural resources to supply a rapidly growing global
    population and economy has resulted in the unintended
    mismanagement and degradation of land and ecosystems. This
    book provides strategic focus to the implementation of

  2. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    El Salvador

    This study assesses the alignment of
    land use, land tenure, and land market outcomes in El
    Salvador with public policy aspirations in recent decades
    for efficient, inclusive, and environmentally sustainable
    development in both urban and rural spaces. In doing so the
    study indirectly gauges the effectiveness of land sector
    institutions in facilitating such developmental outcomes in
    agricultural production, urbanization, and forest

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Global

    Economic, agronomic, and biophysical
    drivers affect global land use, so all three influences need
    to be considered in evaluating economically optimal
    allocations of the world's land resources. A dynamic,
    forward-looking optimization framework applied over the
    course of the coming century shows that although some
    deforestation is optimal in the near term, in the absence of
    climate change regulation, the desirability of further

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2015
    Africa, Western Africa

    Land and property rights, migration, and
    citizenship are complex issues that cut across all social,
    economic, and political spheres of West Africa. This paper
    provides an overarching scoping of the most pressing
    contemporary issues related to land, migration, and
    citizenship, including how they intersect in various
    contexts and locations in West Africa. The way issues are
    analytically framed captures structural challenges and sets

  5. Library Resource
    September, 2015
    Brazil

    This report on the assessment of land
    governance in Brazil summarizes and discusses the results of
    a series of standardized self-assessments of the land
    governance situation in Brazil, conducted entirely by
    Brazilian speakers. Therefore, these findings represent the
    perception of local experts based on their experience of
    news and data available. The main aim of this report are
    federal and state authorities directly involved in land

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    An extensive review of literature on the
    determinants of adoption and impacts of land management
    technologies in the Ethiopian highlands was undertaken to
    guide policy makers and development agencies in crafting
    programs and policies that can better and more effectively
    address land degradation in Ethiopia. Several
    generalizations emerge from the review: 1) the profitability
    of land management technologies is a very important factor

  7. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Yemen

    The report, Land Tenure for Social and
    Economic Inclusion in Yemen: Issues and Opportunities was
    completed in December 2009. The report addresses the
    problems of land ownership in Yemen and the various social
    and economic problems associated with the system of land
    ownership. Property rights under Yemeni Law are expressed
    both in custom and statute, but both are informed by shari a
    (Islamic law), which provides the basic property categories

  8. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Costa Rica

    Costa Rica's Program of Payments
    for Environmental Services (Pago de Servicios Ambientales,
    PSA) provides a unique opportunity to evaluate direct
    payments as a conservation policy tool. This paper reports
    evidence on how much more forest has been conserved in Costa
    Rica as a result of PSA contracts with landowners. Such
    evidence requires estimating a counterfactual outcome: how
    much forest would have been preserved if there had been no

  9. Library Resource
    May, 2016

    Over the past quarter century, Vietnam’s
    agricultural sector has made enormous progress. Vietnam’s
    performance in terms of agricultural yields, output, and
    exports, however, has been more impressive than its gains in
    efficiency, farmer welfare, and product quality. Vietnamese
    agriculture now sits at a turning point. The agricultural
    sector now faces growing domestic competition - from cities,
    industry, and services - for labor, land, and water. Rising

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2016

    Bleak short-term economic outlook raises the risk that social and environmental
    achievements may not be sustained. The changed economic circumstances have exposed shortcomings in Brazil’s development model, epitomized by the struggle to achieve a sustainable fiscal policy. Against this background, some Brazilians are now asking whether the gains of the past decade might have been an illusion, created by the commodity boom, but unsustainable in today’s less forgiving international environment. Brazil thus finds itself at an important juncture and, to a certain extent, the policy

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