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   Réforme agraire: colonisation et coopératives agricoles 1998/1

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 1998

   Serbia, France, North Macedonia, Bangladesh, Honduras, United States of America, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Colombia, Kenya, Morocco, Japan, Uganda, Albania, Italy, Tanzania, Ecuador, Tunisia, Senegal, Sudan, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, Americas

   Land & Investments

   Forest Tenure

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   land governance

   land consolidation

   land policies

   land

   public ownership

   agricultural and rural legislation

   farming systems

   land use

   collective ownership

   rural population

   land tenure

   land markets

   land management

   poverty

   rangelands

   rural development

   private ownership

   forest land

   land reform

   agrarian reform

   land ownership

   This issue of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives includes interesting descriptions of land tenure and related policies in Uganda, Tunisia, the United Republic of Tanzania and Morocco. Two thought-provoking articles on access to land and other assets focus on policies to reduce poverty and the function of markets in the allocation of production resources. In the first, J. Melmed-Sanjak and S.

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   Sustaining protected areas: Identifying and controlling deforestation and forest degradation drivers in the Ankasa Conservation Area, Ghana

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2013

   Ghana, Africa

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Forest Tenure

   land cover

   farming systems

   land use

   deforestation

   poverty

   climate change

   Although protected areas in Africa contain possibly the highest repositories of carbon and thus can play a role in mitigating the effects of climate change through carbon sequestration, they are threatened due to increasing levels of deforestation and forest degradation (DFD). However, little information is available on the on-site causes of DFD in these areas. This paper estimates the levels of DFD and identifies the drivers in the Ankasa Conservation Area (ACA) in Ghana as a case study. A survey was used to identify both direct and underlying factors that promote the DFD.