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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014

    “Bodem is de grond van ons bestaan”. De bodem is een belangrijke productiefactor in de landbouw, bevat een significant deel van de biodiversiteit op aarde, buffert neerslag en klimaat en is drager van ons leefmilieu. Wat doen we om de kwaliteit van de bodem te behouden? In dit artikel wordt stilgestaan bij het onderzoeksprogramma Duurzame Bodem binnen de Topsector. Aan de orde komen: bodem-bewustzijn; te realiseren doelstellingen; handelingsperspectief van de ondernemer; partners en financiers; sessie op 19 november 2014.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    September, 2014

    Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing rapidly, but most countries lack appropriate tools to manage their urban growth. This creates both risks and opportunities for prospective land holders, resulting in a tangle of insecure land rights and claims under multiple tenure systems. Recently, innovative land tools have been proposed and implemented to formalize land tenure. It is envisaged that tenure security for land holders will increase and in turn contribute to poverty reduction.

  3. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2014

    Ideally, poverty indicators improve because poor people’s livelihoods are improved. They can, however, also improve
    because poor people are expelled from the territory. This article explores the case of the cattle region of Chontales, Nicaragua, which
    during 1998–2005 experienced economic growth and declining poverty rates, spurred by investments and organizational development.
    The article argues that in the absence of pro-poor coalitions, these investments facilitated the return and strengthening of the local elite

  4. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2014

    This article summarizes the results of a research program conducted in 11 Latin America countries, addressing two
    questions: (1) what factors determine territorial development dynamics that lead to economic growth, poverty reduction, and improved
    income distribution? (2) What can be done to stimulate this kind of territorial dynamics? We highlight five “bundles of factors” that we
    found in 19 case studies of territorial development 1, as well as the role of social territorial coalitions that appear to be necessary for

  5. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2014
    Nicaragua

    Natural resources constitute an important axis around which rural territorial dynamics revolve. Based on empirical
    registration of how applications for and denouncements of natural resource use are dealt with in two Nicaraguan rural territories, this
    paper examines the importance of inequality for the institutional practices through which district-level governance of natural resource
    use takes place. Notable differences are identified. The paper concludes that institutional practices which promote rule-based natural

  6. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2014
    India, Southern Asia

    Rural women in India are rarely consulted in development projects that may increase men’s production and income, but add to their own workloads. Women’s on-farm household and productive labor is significant but underrecognized and under-valued. Women farmers have no rights to farmlands, though most farm production is carried out by them. This paper addresses women’s decision making regarding mango production.

  7. Library Resource
    Four Decades of Forest Persistence, Clearance and Logging on Borneo
    Peer-reviewed publication
    July, 2014
    Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia

    The native forests of Borneo have been impacted by selective logging, fire, and conversion to plantations at unprecedented scales since industrial-scale extractive industries began in the early 1970s. There is no island-wide documentation of forest clearance or logging since the 1970s. This creates an information gap for conservation planning, especially with regard to selectively logged forests that maintain high conservation potential. Analysing LANDSAT images, we estimate that 75.7% (558,060 km2) of Borneo’s area (737,188 km2) was forested around 1973.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    October, 2014

    La ruée sur les terres observées ces dernières années a conduit la communauté internationale à lancer de nombreuses initiatives dont les Directives volontaires pour une gouvernance responsable des régimes fonciers, adoptées en 2012 par le Comité pour la sécurité alimentaire (CSA), représentent aujourd’hui le processus le plus achevé. L’enjeu pour la coopération française était de mettre en place des outils d’analyse et procédures internes permettant de garantir l’opérationnalisation de ces principes et leur respect dans toutes les activités appuyées par les institutions françaises.

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2014
    Western Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    En 1962, René Dumont publiait L’ Afrique noire est mal partie. Ce livre, qui concernait essentiellement l’Afrique de l’Ouest, fit scandale à l’époque car il intervenait au lendemain des indépendances des colonies européennes, à un moment où les jeunes États africains pouvaient espérer un développement prometteur.

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