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'Youth, Land, and The SDGs' | A Short Documentary Film by Jamal Browne

Videos
May, 2017
Kenya, United States of America
development
land tenure
land tenure systems
sustainable development
youth
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A Critical Analysis of the Extent to Which the National Land Commission Addresses the Land Question in Kenya.

Reports & Research
December, 2017
Kenya
land
research
The land question in Kenya has never been solved. Land is a pertinent source of livelihood, the problem has persisted and in a number of years caused chaos as people grow impatient. Over time, there have been complaints from various communities and recently, the past governments have sought to listen to the ailing communities. The National Land Policy and the National Land Commission characterize efforts to remedy the continued situation bedeviling the African communities.
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A land grab for pulp- new mill project by Portucel Mozambique

January, 2017
Mozambique
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
food security
land grabbing
environment
land
This latest discussion document explores the plan by The Navigator Company to develop a new pulp mill in Mozambique. The Portuguese company, operating as Portucel Mozambique and with funding from the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, is acquiring huge areas of land for establishing eucalyptus tree plantations to supply the mill.
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A legislação sobre o acesso aos recursos naturais em Moçambique: o impacto das novas leis e das consultas comunitárias sobre o bem-estar a nível local

Reports & Research
October, 2017
Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
advocacy
agricultural land management
common law
community land rights
continuum in land rights
Este relatório considera um dos aspectos práticos mais importantes da participação
local na Lei de Terras e outra legislação sobre recursos naturais: a consulta
comunitária, através da qual os estranhos – o Estado, novos investidores, empresas
madeireiras, grupos de hotéis – obtêm acesso à terra e recursos locais com a
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A Macroeconomia e a Produção Agrícola em Moçambique

Reports & Research
April, 2017
Mozambique
Land & Gender
agrarian structure
Este trabalho procura verificar a relação entre variáveis macroeconómicas e a produção agrícola em Moçambique. O sector agrícola desempenha um papel fundamental no desenvolvimento da economia moçambicana. Assim sendo, torna-se importante compreender a relação entre o ambiente macroeconómico e o sector. De acordo com Ali et al. (2010) a economia agrícola mundial tem sido substancialmente sensível aos movimentos dos indicadores macroeconómicos.
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A new land administration system for Zimbabwe

Reports & Research
July, 2017
Zimbabwe, Africa
land
land administration
Vital that the new Land Commission looks at the range of land issues in the round. Need comprehensive district by district approach, attuned to local circumstances and flexible. Enormous challenge to recreate a land administration system. Outlines vital elements and how they must work together.
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A regional scale ecological risk framework for environmental flow evaluations

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
South Africa, Kenya
natural resources management
water management
Recent developments in Environmental Flow (E-flow) frameworks advocate holistic, regional scale, probabilistic E-flow assessments that consider flow and non-flow drivers of change in socio-ecological context as best practice. Regional Scale ecological risk assessments of multiple sources, stressors and diverse ecosystems that address multiple social and ecological endpoints, have been undertaken internationally at different spatial scales using the relative-risk model since the mid 1990's.
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Access to farmland gets quick and dirty in sub-Saharan Africa

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique, Uganda, Ghana, Senegal
customary land rights
dispossession
farmers
farmland
land access
occupation
Who can access and use the land? The answer to this age-old question is changing fast in many parts of rural Africa. Land that used to be allocated within the community by chiefs is now increasingly changing hands in more diverse ways. The wealthy and well-connected within the community or from further afield are frequently able to override local statutory or customary land rights, dispossessing the previous occupants or forcing them to divide their already small plots of land.
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Accès au foncier et relations de pouvoir : l’enchâssement des acquisitions foncières à grande échelle au Mozambique

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Mozambique
estate management
land policies
Date: mars 2017

Source: Foncier & Développement

Malgré une littérature abondante, les acquisitions foncières à grande échelle sont généralement considérées comme des éléments exogènes aux territoires dans lesquelles elles sont réalisées.
La plupart des analyses ne s’intéresse, en effet, qu’aux processus de consultation et à la reconnaissance légale des droits fonciers des populations locales.
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Adoption of CA technologies among followers of lead farmers : how strong is the influence from lead farmers?

Reports & Research
December, 2017
Malawi
farmers
This study investigates how the Farmer-to-Farmer-Extension (F2FE) system with lead farmers and follower farmers influences adoption of Conservation Agriculture (CA) technologies in Malawi. Using data from 180 lead farmers and their 455 followers in central and southern Malawi, we assess the level of influence lead farmers have on their followers’ familiarity with and adoption of CA.