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'Land grabbing' and international investment law: toward a global reconfiguration of property?

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2016
South America, Africa, Europe, United States of America
Land & Investments
land grabbing
land investments
land law
land markets
land policies
property
property law
This yearbook chapter discusses the link between international investment law and commercial pressures on the world’s natural resources. It argues that changes in legal frameworks are redefining control over natural resources, and facilitating transitions toward more commercialised land relations. As pressures on resources increase, many national laws undermine the rights of people impacted by investments. If not properly thought through, international treaties to protect foreign investment could compound shortcomings of local and national governance.
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2015 Global Forest Products Facts and Figures

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Egypt, United States of America, Chile, Sweden, Germany, China, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Republic of Korea, France, Uruguay, Thailand, New Zealand, Japan, Finland, Malaysia, Italy, India, Russia, Turkey, Brazil, Austria
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
forest land
This note presents highlights and recent trends in data for each of the main product groups, as well as a short summary of recent changes or improvements in statistics.
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A comparison of influences on the landscape of two social-ecological systems

Land Use Policy Volume 57

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2016
Italy, Panama
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land cover
land use
research
Case studies of social-ecological landscapes that consider local, spatially explicit land cover changes are necessary for the development of generalised knowledge on deforestation. This study focussed on two indigenous territories of eastern Panama that share the same settlement history, size and location but are perceived by local dwellers to differ in terms of land cover.
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A probabilistic graphical model approach in 30 m land cover mapping with multiple data sources

Reports & Research
December, 2016
China, Russia, United States of America
land
land cover
land cover mapping
There is a trend to acquire high accuracy land-cover maps using multi-source classification methods, most of which are based on data fusion, especially pixel- or feature-level fusions. A probabilistic graphical model (PGM) approach is proposed in this research for 30 m resolution land-cover mapping with multi-temporal Landsat and MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data. Independent classifiers were applied to two single-date Landsat 8 scenes and the MODIS time-series data, respectively, for probability estimation. A PGM was created for each pixel in Landsat 8 data.
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A representação da realidade e o trágico em Seara de Vento, de Manuel da Fonseca, e em Emissários do Diabo, de Gilvan Lemos

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Portugal, Brazil
land ownership
Na representação da realidade, as implicações que o real traz para a ficção vão além da mera imitação. Na Literatura, o modo como se representa a realidade expressa, usualmente, a cosmovisão de uma determinada época. Isso é perceptível no modo realista de composição ficcional, que atinge seu ápice na segunda metade do século XIX, quando “o romance realista autêntico tem assumido a herança da tragédia clássica” (AUERBACH, 2011, p. 446).
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Agricultural Land Market in Poland

Reports & Research
March, 2016
Poland, United States of America
land
The main purpose of this paper is to carry out an analysis of the agricultural land market in Poland based on market transactions conducted in 2002. Authors analysed the sale and lease market of agricutural land making an allowance for its ownership structure. The analysis was made both on the private market and toward the land owned by the State Treasury and managed by the Agency of the Agricultural Propety of the State Treasury (since July 16, 2003 transformed into the Agricultural Property Agency).
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Agricultural policies, trade and sustainable development in Egypt

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2016
Rwanda, Egypt, Morocco, Denmark, Switzerland, United States of America, Kenya, South Africa, Yemen, Turkey, Spain, Burundi, China, Tanzania, Norway, Netherlands, Russia, Sudan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
land policies
sustainable development
This study analyses Egypt’s agricultural sector and its performance over time, identifies constraints to increasing production and exports, and examines the key role of trade in inclusive agriculture development. After a review of current trends in the agricultural sector and trade policies, the study elaborates on the main pillars of Egypt’s current agricultural development strategy and the factors inhibiting growth of agricultural production and trade.
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Améliorer les régimes fonciers, améliorer la vie

Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2016
Kenya, France, Burundi, Guatemala, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, Malawi, Niger
land governance
land tenure
Quatre ans après l’approbation des Directives volontaires par le Comité sur la sécurité alimentaire mondiale en tant que consensus global pour l’amélioration des régimes fonciers, ses principes et processus continuent à être des sources d’inspirations pour agir. Gouvernements, société civile et secteur privé se sont largement appropriés les Directives volontaires. Elles constituent également un cadre impartial ouvrant à de nouvelles discussions sur les régimes fonciers, au développement de nouvelles compétences et à l’élaboration participative de nouvelles politiques foncières.
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An evolution in the middle: Examining the rise of multinational investment in smallholder grain trading in Zambia

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Mozambique, Kenya, Zambia, Chile, Guatemala, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Madagascar, India, Malawi, Netherlands, Africa
land management
African agrifood systems are being transformed by multinational capital. To date, research on this transformation has focused most intently on the rise of supermarkets and demand for African land. Multinational investment in African grain trading has received less attention. Using a range of qualitative methods and representative household survey data from Zambia, this article seeks to understand the causes and consequences of multinational investment in smallholder grain markets.
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Base referencial mundial del recurso suelo 2014: Sistema internacional de clasificación de suelos para la nomenclatura de suelos y la creación de leyendas de mapas de suelos

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
France, United States of America, Luxembourg, Chile, Australia, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland, Bulgaria, Ghana, Argentina, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, Austria
land-use planning
land use
land use mapping
La tercera edición de la WRB incorpora, en el nuevo capítulo 2, elementos que permiten generar nombres taxonómicos mucho más informativos que llevan a deducir con facilidad la génesis y funciones de los suelos. Por otro lado, esta nueva versión de la WRB facilita la elaboración de leyendas de mapas a varias escalas para uso multifinalitario.