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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2015
    Kenya, Norway, United States of America

    Constrained access to land is increasingly recognized as a problem impeding rural household welfare in densely populated areas of Africa. This study utilizes household and parcel level data from rural Kenya to explore the linkage between land access and food security. We find that a 10% increase in operated land size would increase household total food consumption per capita, cereal consumption per capita, non-cereal consumption, and home produced food consumption by 2.6%, 2.1%, 2.7% and 5.4%, respectively.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2015
    United Kingdom, Norway, United States of America

    The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that farm size for the analysis of land investment and tenure security. The paper formally tests for land abundance and estimates a system of equations using farm survey data from post-war Mozambique. Farm size is found to be a key determinant of both investment and tenure security.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Brazil, United States of America, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands

    The protection of fertile soils is a precondition for sustainable development. In the final document of the conference of the United Nations on sustainable development in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20 Conference), the international community thus agreed to strive for a “land degradation neutral world”. The legal study by Ecologic Institute, Berlin, firstly scrutinizes some national legislation (Germany/EU, USA and Brazil) in order to identify legal instruments which are suitable for the implementation of the goal of a “land degradation neutral world”.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Europe

    Agricultural practices have adapted over millennia to regional and local variations in weather conditions. But as the effects of climate change become more noticeable, further adaptation becomes essential to ensure food security in Europe.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Germany, Netherlands, Sweden

    There is increasing recognition of the need for society to adapt to the impacts of climate change, especially in the water sector. Adaptation to climatic impacts involves both infrastructural adjustments, such as reinforcing dykes or creating water storage capacity, and broader processes of societal change, such as adjusting land use planning, more efficient water use or agricultural transitions. The aim of this special issue is not to ‘assess’ the current state of play for adaptation strategies and policies in Europe.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    May, 2015
    Italy

    Changes to land use such as the removal of natural vegetation and expansion of urban areas can result in degradation of the landscape and an increase in hydro-meteorological risk. This has led to higher interest by decision-makers and scientists in the future consequences of these drivers. Scenario development can be a useful tool for addressing the high uncertainty regarding modeling future land use changes. Scenarios are not exact forecasts, but images of plausible futures.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Netherlands

    Om landbouwkundige en milieukundige prestaties van bedrijven te beoordelen, kan het nuttig zijn om prestaties te spiegelen aan normen. Eén van de normen die hiervoor gebruikt kan worden, zijn de normen (opbrengsten, afvoeren, bodemoverschotten, benuttingen) die behoren bij een bedrijf dat de wettelijke toegestane (kunst)mestgiften (‘gebruiksnormen’) maximaal opvult. Dit type normen kan modelmatig geschat worden. Een voorbeeld van een daarvoor geschikt model is het WOD-model.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Netherlands

    Winnaar van de wedstrijd Topbodem, editie 2014-15, Hans Akkermans probeert alles te doen om zijn bodem in topconditie te houden. Toch merkt hij dat de normen voor fosfaat de ruimte beperken om aan duurzame bodemvruchtbaarheid te werken. Voor een goed saldo neigt hij naar intensievere teelten, voor de bodem naar voldoende rustgewassen.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Netherlands

    A feasibility study has been worked out for an integrated advisory system for precision agriculture on the production of forage (grass and maize) for dairy farming in the Netherlands. Technology is not restrictive anymore to apply precision agriculture on important cultivation measures. It is now about achieving an effective integration of sensor data, models, metrics and equipment in a comprehensive advice system. It has been advised how a practical advice system for operational decisions can be realized on the dairy farm in the foreseeable future (

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Norway

    More than 200 years after the King sold one of the “King’s commons” of Follafoss (located inthe current Verran municipality) to urban timber merchants, local people in some ways still behave as if the area is a kind of commons. The paper will outline the history of the transformation of the area from an 18th century King’s commons to a 21th century battleground for ideas about ancient access and use rights of community members facing rights of a commercial forest owner and the local consequences of national legislation.

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