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  1. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Niger

    Since the early 1980s, the Government of
    Niger and its development partners have invested more than
    200 billion West African Francs (FCFA) in programs will
    promote sustainable land management (SLM) and other
    activities to reduce poverty and vulnerability. Overall,
    more than 50 programs have promoted SLM in Niger. Despite
    large investments in SLM programs, their impacts on land
    management, agricultural production, poverty, and other

  2. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    The 2007-2008 upsurge in agricultural
    commodity prices gave rise to widespread concern about
    investors causing a "global land rush". Large land
    deals can provide opportunities for better access to
    capital, transfer of technology, and advances in
    productivity and employment generation. But they carry risks
    of dispossession and loss of livelihoods, corruption,
    deterioration in local food security, environmental damage,

  3. Library Resource
    May, 2012

    This sourcebook is intended to be a
    ready reference for practitioners (including World Bank
    stakeholders, clients in borrowing countries, and World Bank
    project leaders) seeking state-of-the-art information about
    good land management approaches, innovations for
    investments, and close monitoring for potential scaling up.
    This sourcebook is divided into three parts: the first part
    identifies the need and scope for sustainable land

  4. 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

  5. Library Resource
    August, 2014

    Using census data from the Censo
    Agropecuario 1995-96, the authors map indicators of current
    land use, and agricultural productivity across Brazil's
    Legal Amazon, These data permit geographical resolution
    about ten times finer than afforded by "municipio"
    data, used in previous studies. The authors focus on the
    extent, and productivity of pasture, the dominant land use
    in Amazonia today. Simple tabulations suggest that most

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Library Resource
    Stakeholder Assessment of Opportunities and Constraints to Sustainable Land Management in Ethiopia cover image
    Reports & Research
    June, 2012
    Ethiopia

    Stakeholders' perceptions of
    opportunities and constraints to sustainable land management
    in Ethiopia was assessed through interviews and a review of
    secondary data. Stakeholders included farmers as well as
    representatives of development agencies, agricultural
    organizations, donors, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs),
    and agricultural research systems. Stakeholders generally
    perceive that the numerous, well-intentioned but piecemeal

  9. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Tanzania

    Declining soil fertility due to
    inadequate farming practices, deforestation and overgrazing
    are among the primary impediments to increased agricultural
    productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. These causal factors,
    driven by social, economic and political forces, manifest
    themselves in market, policy and institutional failures,
    inappropriate technologies and practices. This is also the
    case in Tanzania where over 90 percent of the population is

  10. 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

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