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Assessment of rural poverty: Asia and the Pacific

January, 2002
India, China, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Oceania
farmers
assessment
land tenure
poverty
land reform
agriculture
This report argues that land reform, both tenancy reform and redistribution of ceiling surplus lands to the landless, is important to poverty alleviation.The paper argues that in addition to production benefits, land reform helps to change the local political structure by giving more voice to the poor. Re-distributive land reform, whether through market-assisted land reform programmes or otherwise, should remain a substantive policy issue for poverty reduction.
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Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands. Manual for Local Level Assessment of Land Degradation and Sustainable Land Management. Part 1

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Zambia, China, Australia, Cuba, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Netherlands, Tunisia, Argentina, Senegal, Tajikistan, Mongolia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
sustainable land management
natural resources management
water management
land management
land degradation
assessment
land cover mapping
This local level land resources assessment methodology (LADA-Local) was produced within the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project. See Box 1 for the LADA project objectives and outcomes and the website <a href="http://www.fao.org/nr/lada">www.fao.org/nr/lada</a> for further information.
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Mapping Land Use Systems at global and regional scales for Land Degradation Assessment Analysis

Journal Articles & Books
January, 1970
Argentina, China, Cuba, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia
land
land degradation
land use
assessment
property
The objective of the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project was to develop tools and methods to assess and quantify the nature, extent, severity and impacts of land degradation on dryland ecosystems, watersheds and river basins, carbon storage and biological diversity at a range of spatial and temporal scales. This builds the national, regional and international capacity to
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Policies to promote household based plantation forestry and their impacts on livelihoods and the environment: cases from Ethiopia, China, Vietnam and Sweden

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Vietnam, Sweden, China, Ethiopia, Europe, Eastern Africa, Eastern Asia, South-Eastern Asia
land use
assessment
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Simulation of an Urban-Rural Spatial Structure on the Basis of Green Infrastructure Assessment: The Case of Harbin, China

Volume 8 Issue 12

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2019
China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
sustainable land management
assessment
Due to their long-term dual structures and rapid urbanization, cities and villages in developing countries are undergoing the challenges of urban-rural integration and ecological security. This study aims to determine the pattern of urban-rural spatial structures under the circumstances of ecological security in the future to promote the integrated, coordinated, green, and sustainable development of urban-rural spaces.
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Varieties of agri-environmental schemes in China: A quantitative assessment

Land Use Policy Volume 71

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2018
China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
assessment
environment
land use
research
Agri-environmental schemes have become an effective policy measure to prompt farmers to protect rural farmland and landscapes. In recent years, 17 provincial governments including Sichuan, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Guangxi and Guangdong have shown increasing interest in promoting local experimentation with agri-environmental schemes.