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Las políticas de ajuste de los ejidatarios frente a la reforma neoliberal en México

Revista de la CEPAL

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2000
Mexico
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land tenure
livestock
Desde 1988 el sector ejidatario mexicano se ha visto afectado
por una serie de cambios de política y perturbaciones exógenas
que han puesto en tela de juicio la viabilidad agrícola del
sector en su conjunto. Los cambios --liberalización del comercio,
privatización, reducción de los subsidios, eliminación
de los controles de precios, perturbaciones macroeconómicas,
devaluación y grandes reformas del marco legal que rige el
uso de la tierra en los ejidos-- han llevado a un reordenamiento
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The adjustment strategies of Mexican ejidatarios in the face of neoliberal reform

CEPAL Review

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2000
Mexico
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land tenure
livestock
Since 1988 the ejido sector in Mexico has been buffeted by a series of policy changes and exogenous shocks that have brought into question the agricultural viability of the sector as a whole. These changes -trade liberalization, privatization, falling subsidies, the abolition of price controls, macroeconomic shocks, devaluation and momentous changes in the legal framework governing land use in the ejido- have led to a radical reordering of the policy framework and incentive structure under which the farmers of these communal lands operate.
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Transformaciones recientes en el sector agropecuario brasileño: lo que muestran los censos

Journal Articles & Books
November, 1999
Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
Resumen Han pasado más de diez años desde la realización del último censo agropecuario. Con la publicación del nuevo censo es posible hacer un primer análisis de los cambios estructurales observados en el sector en el transcurso del período en cuestión. En el presente libro se investigan en profundidad las principales modificaciones en la estructura productiva y en el empleo de los factores productivos, especialmente la mano de obra y la tierra. La organización agraria brasileña ha sufrido significativas alteraciones durante la última década.
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Can land taxes foster sustainable development? An assessment of fiscal, distributional and implementation issues

Land Use Policy Volume 78

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2018
Indonesia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Rwanda, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
assessment
development
land tax
land use
research
sustainable development
Economists argue that land rent taxation is an ideal form of taxation as it causes no deadweight losses. Nevertheless, pure land rent taxation is rarely applied. This paper revisits the case of land taxation for developing countries. We first provide an up-to-date review on land taxation in development countries, including feasibility and implementation challenges. We then simulate land tax reforms for Rwanda, Peru, Nicaragua and Indonesia, based on household surveys.
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The “sowing of concrete”: Peri-urban smallholder perceptions of rural–urban land change in the Central Peruvian Andes

Land Use Policy Volume 38

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2014
Peru
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land use
research
urban land
Policy makers concerned with the peri-urban interface find their greatest challenges in the rapid urban growth of developing mountain regions, since limitations caused by relief and altitude often lead to an increased competition between rural and urban land use at the valley floors. In this context, little attention has been paid to the affected agriculturalists’ perceptions of peri-urban growth—important information required for the realization of sustainable land use planning. How is the process of rural–urban land change perceived and assessed by peri-urban smallholder communities?
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Regrowing forests contribution to law compliance and carbon storage in private properties of the Brazilian Amazon

Land Use Policy Volume 88

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2019
Brazil, Canada, France, United States of America
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forestry
land use
research
The viability of the climate pledges made by Brazil at the COP21 in Paris, 2015, heavily depends on the success of the country policies related to forest governance. Particularly, there are high expectations that the enforcement of the Brazilian Forest Code (BFC) will drive large-scale forest recovery and carbon mitigation. In this study, we quantified the potential role that ongoing forest regeneration may play in offsetting deficits from private properties with less vegetation cover than determined by the BFC, considering different law implementation settings.
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A local perspective on drivers and measures to slow deforestation in the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Colombia

Land Use Policy Volume 77

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2018
Colombia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
environment
land use
research
sustainable land management
Colombia’s Andean-Amazonian foothills are among the most pressing deforestation hotspots in the country. Yet, the relationships and dependencies of underlying deforestation drivers are not well understood. For an adequate territorial reorganization in the post-conflict era that is sensitive to local context, a targeted analysis of the present situation at the local level is required. This study investigates direct and indirect deforestation drivers, relationships among these and potential measures to lower deforestation post-conflict.
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Climate financing needs in the land sector under the Paris Agreement: An assessment of developing country perspectives

Land Use Policy Volume 83

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2019
Brazil, Canada, France, Indonesia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
assessment
climate change
land use
research
This paper explores the potential of climate finance to support developing country efforts to shift away from unsustainable land use patterns in the context of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. We pursue two research objectives here. Through a meta-analysis of 40 developing country Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), we provide, first, a comprehensive qualitative overview of developing country perspectives on climate financing needs for mitigation and adaptation activities in the land use, land-use change and forestry sectors (LULUCF).
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Modeling residential development in California from 2000 to 2050: Integrating wildfire risk, wildland and agricultural encroachment

Land Use Policy Volume 41

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2014
Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
development
encroachment
land use
research
sustainable land management
Between 1940 and 2000, nearly 10 million housing units were constructed throughout California. This increased interaction between human and natural communities creates a number of significant socio-ecological challenges. Here we present a novel spatially explicit model that allows better characterization of the extent and intensity of future housing settlements using three development scenarios between 2000 and 2050. We estimate that California's exurban land classes will replace nearly 12 million acres of wild and agricultural lands.
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Reterritorialization practices and strategies of campesinos in the urban frontier of Bogotá, Colombia

Land Use Policy Volume 99

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2020
Colombia, South America, Central America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land use
land-use planning
research
urban areas
urban planning
urbanization
Much of the research on urbanization has focused on how rural populations move to cities for work opportunities. This paper takes a different perspective on the relations between rural populations and urbanization. The livelihoods of rural dwellers on the outskirts of the city of Bogotá in Colombia are increasingly affected by the expansion of urban activities and infrastructure. Therefore, urbanization takes place in the areas of residence of the rural populations; these people do not migrate to the city but, rather, the city migrates to them.