The article examines the European share in large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper aims to identify correlation between biofuels policy and large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa and the consequences of this phenomenon. It first identifies the backgrounds that caused the increased interest in biofuel production and, consequently, African land acquisition in recent years. Then, it examines growth in the number of land transactions that take place on the continent. Finally, the paper investigates the share of European capital in land transactions.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2013Austria, Bélgica, Bulgaria, Chipre, República Checa, Alemania, Dinamarca, España, Estonia, Finlandia, Francia, Grecia, Croacia, Hungría, Irlanda, Italia, Lituania, Luxemburgo, Letonia, Malta, Países Bajos, Polonia, Portugal, Rumania, Eslovaquia, Eslovenia, Suecia, África
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2015Brasil, Estados Unidos de América, Chipre, Bulgaria, República Checa, Hungría, Polonia, Rumania, Eslovaquia, Dinamarca, Estonia, Finlandia, Irlanda, Letonia, Lituania, Suecia, Croacia, Grecia, Italia, Malta, Portugal, Eslovenia, España, Austria, Bélgica, Francia, Alemania, Luxemburgo, Países Bajos
The protection of fertile soils is a precondition for sustainable development. In the final document of the conference of the United Nations on sustainable development in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20 Conference), the international community thus agreed to strive for a “land degradation neutral world”. The legal study by Ecologic Institute, Berlin, firstly scrutinizes some national legislation (Germany/EU, USA and Brazil) in order to identify legal instruments which are suitable for the implementation of the goal of a “land degradation neutral world”.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2010Austria, Bélgica, Bulgaria, Chipre, República Checa, Alemania, Dinamarca, España, Estonia, Finlandia, Francia, Grecia, Croacia, Hungría, Irlanda, Italia, Lituania, Luxemburgo, Letonia, Malta, Países Bajos, Polonia, Portugal, Rumania, Eslovaquia, Eslovenia, Suecia, África
This report examines the role of European Union (EU) member States, both collectively and individually, in the current reported wave of foreign land investment in Africa that has led to the current use of the term ‘land grabbing’.It discusses whether this role is consistent with the EU’s commitment to advance agriculture in Africa in order to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals and member states’ obligations under international human rights law.
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Publicación revisada por paresDiciembre, 2017Jordania, Chipre, Grecia, LíbanoThe aim of the paper is to examine the variability of eastern Mediterranean landscapes using a common mapping framework relying on Landscape Character Mapping (LCM). LCM was adapted to the region’s specificities placing emphasis on the area’s coastal nature, landform variation, land use, in particular pastoral tradition, and settlement patterns, an important output of this study.
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Publicación revisada por paresDiciembre, 2017Chipre, Jordania, Líbano, GreciaThis study aims at demonstrating and critically assessing high-level landscape stakeholders’ perceptions and understandings of landscape-related issues, threats and problems, in the Eastern Mediterranean, through a purposive comparative research survey of four case studies: Cyprus, Greece, Jordan and Lebanon.
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Library ResourceDocumentos de conferencias e informesDiciembre, 2018Serbia, Francia, Lituania, Turquía, Afganistán, Azerbaiyán, Belarús, Letonia, India, Kazajstán, Rumania, República Checa
The conference is aimed at dissemination of scientific research results, sharing of experience, improvement of foreign language and cross - cultural communication skills, and establishing of international contacts.
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Library ResourceDocumentos de conferencias e informesDiciembre, 2017Eslovenia, Chipre, Luxemburgo, Portugal, Polonia, Letonia, Grecia, Malta, Austria
The aim of article is assessment the impact of the affiliation of the country to the EU-15 or EU-12 on agricultural land productivity and its price. The tasks of article are evaluation of intensity in agriculture in the countries EU-15 and EU-12 and evaluation of differences in land productivity and its prices between EU-12 and EU-15 countries in years 2007−2013. The analysis showed that in the 2007−2013 period the EU-15 and EU-12 significantly differed in capital intensity.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosMayo, 2013Sudán, Burundi, Haití, Afganistán, Georgia, Iraq, Macedonia del Norte, Kosovo
This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of conflict-affected countries over the past 20 years. It focuses on countries that are emerging, or have recently emerged, from periods of war and protracted conflict. The interventions covered fall into three broad categories:
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosMayo, 2018Kenya, Somalia, Italia, Djibouti, Etiopía, Arabia Saudita
This country profile describes the state of the water resources and water use, as well as the state of agricultural water management in Somalia. The aim of this report is to describe the particularities of the country and the problems met in the development of the water resources, and irrigation in particular.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosAgosto, 2018Argelia, Qatar, Egipto, Malta, Jordania, Libia, Kuwait, Arabia Saudita, Líbano, Mauritania, Iraq, Irán, Djibouti, Marruecos, Yemen, Turquía, Omán, Siria, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Túnez, Sudán, Bahrein
Fragility has become the reality in several countries of the Middle East and North Africa. Armed conflict and forced displacement are taking an enormous toll on human lives, with the region accounting for about 60 percent of the estimated global total of battle-related casualties since the turn of the millennium. Conflicts and fragility have also had negative economic impacts, with countries directly affected by conflict such as Syria and Yemen losing as much as half of their pre-war GDP.
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