Across Central Asia, agriculture largely depends on irrigation due to arid and semi-arid climatic conditions. Water is abstracted from rivers, which are largely fed by glacier melt. In the course of climate change, glaciers melt down so that a reduced glacier volume and reduced water runoffs are expected to be available for irrigation. Tree wind breaks are one option to reduce water consumption in irrigated agriculture and build resilience against climate change.

La Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible (Agenda 2030) es global en términos de su alcance y de los compromisos asumidos, que se organizan alrededor de sus 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) estrechamente interconectados entre sí, que la hacen indivisible por naturaleza.  “No dejar a nadie atrás” es uno de los principios fundamentales de la Agenda 2030, ya que su cumplimiento exige la participación de todos los sectores y actores de la sociedad, mediante alianzas para movilizar y compartir conocim

La agricultura familiar campesina (AFC) ha sido marginada sistemáticamente a pesar de su aporte a una alimentación sana y cuidado del medioambiente. Es tiempo de revalorizarla y abrir discusión desde una postura optimista, basada en observaciones directas en terrenos y marcos teóricos desarrollados por los agraristas de la corriente chayanoviana.

Este informe muestra que dada la falta de limitaciones al uso de de materias primas de riesgo elevado
de deforestación, la ambición mundial actual de aumentar el uso de biocombustibles puede conducir a una mayor deforestación y a aumentos asociados de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. El informe presenta escenarios de desarrollo bajo, medio y alto de la demanda de aceite de palma y soja para biocombustibles en el periodo hasta 2030
en las jurisdicciones más relevantes.

There has been a trend to encourage organic agriculture in response to improve global food security. This article investigated how organic agriculture contributed to food security of small land holders experiencing organic agriculture. It involved in-depth interview, focus group, and participatory observation from a purposive sample of thirty participants at San Sai and Muang Wa Villages, Luang Neua Sub-District, Doi Sa Ket District, Chiang Mai Province, the north of Thailand.

Labor migration and large-scale land enclosures are increasingly central to the story of agrarian change throughout the Global South. Nonetheless, there remain limited understandings of how recent explosions of mobile labor and new sources of smallholder capital shape and are shaped by ongoing land use and property transformations. This article reviews this gap in Southeast Asia – a region where labor and capital are highly mobile and where the expansion of industrial agriculture and forestry has been particularly rapid.

WEB INTRODUCTION: The literature on agricultural large-scale land acquisition in Myanmar is rather fragmented and consists mainly of case studies. While these provide key insights into particular stories, they often fail to identify the main patterns and trends at country level. To fill such gaps, this thematic study aims to present an updated synthesis of the genealogy, institutional complexity and the ins and outs of large-scale land acquisition processes for agricultural development in Myanmar.

This paper deepens the economic analysis of the effects of land consolidation – reduction of land fragmentation. It does this in the context of rural Vietnam, studying whether land consolidation promotes or hinders the Vietnamese government's policy objectives of encouraging agricultural mechanization and stimulating the off-farm rural economy. The analysis views land consolidation as a form of technical change, making it possible to apply the rich insights developed in the economic literature on that subject.

This paper investigates how climate change strategies and resource conflicts are shaping each other in the Greater Aural region of western Cambodia. Agro-industrial projects linked to climate change goals are reshaping both social and ecological dynamics, by altering patterns of access to land and water resources as well as the nature of the resources themselves. Using a landscape perspective, we investigate these social and ecological changes occurring across space and time.

Between Vietnam's independence and its reunification in 1975, the country's socialist land tenure system was underpinned by the principle of "land to the tiller". During this period, government redistributed land to farmers that was previously owned by landlords. The government's "egalitarian" approach to land access was central to the mass support that it needed during the Indochinese war.

Since the early 2000s the Lao government has dramatically increased the number of large-scale land concessions issued for agribusinesses. While studies have documented the social and environmental impacts of land dispossession, the role of Vietnamese labour on these Vietnamese-owned rubber plantations has not previously been investigated. Taking a political ecology approach, we situate this study at the intersection between ‘land grabbing’ studies and work on ‘labour geographies’.