We propose a causal analysis framework to increase understanding of land-use change (LUC) and the reliability of LUC models. This health-sciences-inspired framework can be applied to determine probable causes of LUC in the context of bioenergy.

An urgent need to stop degradation is frequently cited as support for climate mitigation efforts involving forests. However, lessons learnt from social science research on degradation narratives are not taken into consideration. This creates a risk of problematic degradation narratives being used to legitimise forest carbon projects.

The rising global population has increased the demand for food, renewable energy and other materials. Yet at the same time to meet this demand requires land and the amount of available land is finite.

This roadmap aims to create an efficient monitoring system for the Rural Land Administration and Use Directorate activities;so that performance indicators can be reviewed and met..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.

This study assesses the reasons for low formalisation of land rental transactions and constraints within the rural land rental regulatory framework in Tigray and the Southern Nations;Nationalities;and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR);and provides recommendations to improve the regulatory framework for land rental transactions..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transfo

This report analyses what the key determinants are for farmers when deciding to rent out their land and how LIFT can influence these to further strengthen the rural land rental market..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.

This research aims to analyse relative effects of current land rental arrangements on the efficiency and equity of small landholding farmers and its implications for land policy debate in Ethiopia..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.

This Regional Law shall have as its purpose ensuring the right of citizens to favorable environment, including landscape and shade gardening, planting of recreational urban forests, thus ensuring favorable conditions for vital activity of citizens, and delimits plenary powers between city state bodies, local government and municipal units in the sphere of improvement of natural environment.

La presente Ley tiene por objeto establecer las acciones, normas, y procedimientos para el manejo del fuego, prevención y lucha contra incendios, en áreas rurales y forestales e interface (donde se conjugan parte rural e infraestructura) en el ámbito del territorio de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.

Article 12 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Land plots and forest plots pertaining to public ownership shall be allotted to legal persons and individual entrepreneurs, which have concluded hunting management contracts, in accordance with land and forest legislation, if not otherwise envisaged by the acting federal legislation”.