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O Parque Natural do Fogo: cosmologias e territorialidades

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2017
Africa, Cape Verde
Forest Tenure
territory
local communities
O artigo apresenta uma pesquisa sobre o Parque Natural do Fogo, na ilha do Fogo, em Cabo Verde, tendo como foco as sociocosmologias caldeirenses. A pesquisa etnográfica foi realizada em Chã das Caldeiras, na qual explorei alguns contextos cosmopolitas onde o cosmos e a política não estão isolados. A criação do referido parque foi mediada por um conjunto de conceções tecnocientíficas e burocracias administrativas que se detêm apenas nos riscos e “recursos” e que bloqueiam a relação ontológica singularizante do caldeirense com o cosmos.
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Le maraîchage périurbain à Libreville et Owendo (Gabon)

Pratiques culturales et durabilité

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2017
Gabon
Land & Food Security
peri-urban agriculture
Au Gabon, le rôle du maraîchage périurbain est essentiel à l'approvisionnement des villes en légumes frais, notamment à Libreville et Owendo. Lors d'une enquête menée dans trois périmètres maraîchers, un état des lieux a été réalisé sur les caractéristiques socio-économiques, la diversité des plantes cultivées et les pesticides utilisés. Les superficies exploitées vont de 0,08 ha à 0,4 ha par maraîcher selon les sites. Les exploitants interrogés sont à 51 % originaires du Gabon alors que 40 % sont originaires du Burkina Faso.
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Les élites urbaines comme nouveaux acteurs du marché foncier en Côte d’Ivoire

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2017
Côte d'Ivoire
Land & Investments
land use
conflicts
land acquisitions
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Sustainable Land Management for Climate and People. Science-Policy Brief 03

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Ethiopia, Nicaragua, United States of America
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
desertification
land degradation
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
biodiversity
Land provides crucial ecosystem services for human existence and human well-being, including provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural services. Those services provide among others the production of fresh air, food, feed, fuel and fibre. They regulate the risks of natural hazards and climate change, offer cultural and spiritual values to our society, and support key ecological functions such as nutrient and water cycling, filtering and buffering, and are central to economic vitality.
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Rangelands: Making Rangelands More Secure in Cameroon: A Review of Good Practice

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Cameroon
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land governance
land rights
land use
pastoralists
rangelands
Rangelands cover a surface area of more than 2 million hectares in Cameroon. Despite their relatively unpredictable climate and unproductive nature they provide a wide variety of goods and services including forage for livestock, habitat for wildlife, water and minerals, woody products, recreational services, nature conservation as well as acting as carbon sinks. Rangelands in Cameroon are predominantly grassland savanna with three types distinguishable: the Guinean savanna, Sudan savanna (also known as ‘derived montane grasslands’), and the Sahel savanna.
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Land reform in South Africa : Beneficiary participation and impact on land use in the Waterberg District

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
South Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land reform
land use
National challenges of food insecurity and unemployment in South Africa prompted an increase in expectations for agricultural land acquired through land reform programmes to make meaningful contributions. Embedded in these expectations is the need for understanding the situation in reformed farms. This study reviewed policies and literature on land reform, and analyzed beneficiary participation in reformed farms and the impact of land reform on land use in land restitution and land redistribution farms in the Waterberg District Municipality.
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Guide de sécurisation foncière sur les aménagements hydro-agricoles au Niger

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Niger
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land
land tenure
natural resources management
water management
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Estimating welfare impacts where property rights are contested: methodological and policy implications

Land Use Policy Volume 70

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2018
Madagascar
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
property
property rights
research
Where rights over natural resources are contested, the effectiveness of conservation may be undermined and it can be difficult to estimate the welfare impacts of conservation restrictions on local people. In particular, researchers face the dilemma of estimating respondents’ Willingness To Pay (WTP) for rights to resources, or their Willingness To Accept (WTA) compensation for foregoing these rights.
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Accounting for groundwater in future city visions

Land Use Policy Volume 69

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2017
Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America, South Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
research
water
City planners, urban innovators and researchers are increasingly working on ‘future city’ initiatives to investigate the physical, social and political aspects of harmonized urban living. Despite this, sustainability principles and the importance of urban groundwater are lacking in future city visions. Using London as a case study, the importance of groundwater for cities is highlighted and a range of future city interventions may impact on groundwater are reviewed.
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Convergence of Romanian and Europe Union agriculture – evolution and prospective assessment

Land Use Policy Volume 67

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2017
French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, France, Germany
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
agriculture
assessment
research
This paper presents forecasts related to the evolution of agricultural production in Romania, relative to the European Union average and to other countries (France, Germany, and Hungary) while taking into consideration the production potential of Romanian agriculture and opportunities to mobilize certain additional financial sources intended for the growth of intermediate consumption and implicitly of the value of agricultural production.