Land Economics/Use, Production Economics,

This research advances the hypothesis that natural land productivity in the past, and its effect on the desirable level of cooperation in the agricultural sector, had a persistent effect on the evolution of social capital, the process of industrialization and comparative economic development…

Rural Development - Rural Land Policies for Poverty Reduction Rural Development - Common Property Resource Development Communities and Human Settlements - Land Use and Policies Urban Development - Urban Housing Rural Development - Forestry

Rural Development - Rural Land Policies for Poverty Reduction Environmental Economics and Policies Communities and Human Settlements - Land Use and Policies Rural Development - Forestry Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems Environment Agriculture

Meeting Name: Committee on Forestry
Meeting symbol/code: COFO/2014/REP

The Malagasy land reform, ongoing since 2005, belongs to the new generation of land reforms. It promotes the legal recognition of existing landholders’ rights (through certification) and the decentralization of land management. Despite the change of paradigm underlying this new wave of reforms,…

Meeting Name: Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Forest Genetic Resources (of the CGRFA) - ITWG-FGR
Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA/WG-FGR-3/14/Inf.6

Temporal spillovers occur when a conservation program changes what happens to land outside the temporal window of the conservation contract. This may happen when conservation improves land so that returns to non-conservation uses are increased, or when landowners' preferences become more…

This is the first paper that estimates the global land use change impact of growth of the bioenergy sector. Applying time-series analytical mechanisms to fuel, biofuel and agricultural commodity prices and production, we estimate the long-rung relationship between energy prices, bioenergy…

The project “Community level legal education and support to help rural women secure and exercise land and resource rights, and address HIV-AIDS related tenure insecurity - GCP/MOZ/086/NOR”, hereinafter abbreviated as GCP/086, is the most recent of a series of FAO initiatives implemented, to a…