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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.
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Sustainable recommendation domains for scaling agricultural technologies in Tanzania

Land Use Policy Volume 66

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2017
Tanzania
Land, Climate Change & Environment
geographical information systems
land use
research
Low adoption of sustainable intensification technologies hinders achievement of their potential impacts on increasing agricultural productivity. Proper targeting of locations to scale-out particular technologies is a key determinant of the rate of adoption. Targeting locations with similar biophysical and socio-economic characteristics significantly increases the probability of adoption. Areas with similar biophysical and socio-economic characteristics are referred to as recommendation domains (RDs).
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Discursos sobre o Regime de Propriedade da Terra em Moçambique

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2017
Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
land governance
mining
land investments
foreign investment
investment funds
land conflicts
community land rights
government
local communities
extractive industries
Os discursos e posicionamentos sobre o regime de propriedade da terra em Moçambique não são coincidentes. Este artigo apresenta as percepções que os diferentes stakeholders (Estado, Comunidades locais, sector privado, Investidores, Sociedade Civil, etc.) envolvidos na relação com a terra possuem em relação à questão fundiária no País, sobretudo no atual contexto marcado pelo grande fluxo de projetos de investimento, de investidores nacionais e estrangeiros, com interesses no agronegócio, na exploração mineira e exploração de hidrocarbonetos.
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Conflict, collusion and corruption in small-scale gold mining: Chinese miners and the state in Ghana

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2017
Ghana
Land Conflicts
corruption
mining
conflicts
foreign investment
extractive industries
As gold prices soared from 2008 onwards, tens of thousands of foreign miners, especially from China, entered the small-scale mining sector in Ghana, despite it being ‘reserved for Ghanaian citizens’ by law. A free-for-all ensued in which Ghanaian and Chinese miners engaged in both contestation and collaboration over access to gold, a situation described as ‘out of control’ and a ‘culture of impunity’. Where was the state? This paper addresses the question of how and why pervasive and illicit foreign involvement occurred without earlier state intervention.
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Looking for oil, gas and mineral development in Ethiopia: Prospects and risks for the political settlement

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2017
Ethiopia
land use change
mining
conflicts
natural resources management
land investments
extractive industries
The narrative of Ethiopia’s remarkable economic growth path under a developmental state model is that of a strong ruling coalition united behind the vision of the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
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‘Civilizing’ the pastoral frontier: land grabbing, dispossession and coercive agrarian development in Ethiopia

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2018
Ethiopia
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
development
pastoral lands
natural resources
land rights
eviction
pastoralists
This paper analyzes frontier dynamics of land dispossessions in Ethiopia’s pastoral lowland regions. Through a case study of two sedentarization schemes in South Omo Valley, we illustrate how politics of coercive sedentarization are legitimated in the ‘civilizing’ impetus of ‘improvement schemes’ for ‘backward’ pastoralists. We study sedentarization schemes that are implemented to evict pastoralist communities from grazing land to be appropriated by corporate investors.
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Conflict, collusion and corruption in small-scale gold mining: Chinese miners and the state in Ghana

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2017
Ghana
Land Conflicts
corruption
post-conflict settings
land use
mining
conflicts
land investments
land rights
land conflicts
As gold prices soared from 2008 onwards, tens of thousands of foreign miners, especially from China, entered the small-scale mining sector in Ghana, despite it being ‘reserved for Ghanaian citizens’ by law. A free-for-all ensued in which Ghanaian and Chinese miners engaged in both contestation and collaboration over access to gold, a situation described as ‘out of control’ and a ‘culture of impunity’. Where was the state? This paper addresses the question of how and why pervasive and illicit foreign involvement occurred without earlier state intervention.
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Triggers of Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Ghana: A Non-Parametric Analysis of Stakeholders’ Perspectives

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2017
Ghana
Land Conflicts
land governance
land use
land access
land conflicts
water rights
farmers
In Ghana, farmer-herder conflicts have become widespread and increasingly assume a violent dimension. Competition over access to and use of land and water resources is at the center of the conflicts. However, competition does not automatically result in conflicts. The conflicts are driven by triggering activities of both farmers and herders. This study identifies triggers of farmer-herder conflicts in the Upper West Region of Ghana and tests the level of agreement among key stakeholder groups on the triggers of these conflicts.
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Strong Institutions in Weak States: Institution Building, Natural Resource Governance, and Conflict in Ghana and Sierra Leone

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Ghana, Sierra Leone
Land in post-conflict settings
land governance
land policies
environment
natural resources management
land conflicts
land dispute
Since the end of the Cold War, natural resources have assumed an increasingly prominent role in security, conflict, and peace studies. Scholars and development practitioners alike view the development of strong institutions, which aim to domesticate global regulatory regimes that foster neoliberal principles like privatization, transparency, and accountability, as necessary to mitigate natural resource conflict in resource-rich states, as well as enhance opportunities for peace and social justice.