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   Reflections on the limited impact of the VGGT in Sub-Saharan Africa and opportunities for its future with lessons from Nigeria and Sierra Leone

   Artículos de revistas y libros

   Febrero, 2022

   África, Nigeria, Sierra Leona, Global

   Tenencia de Bosques

   Indígenas y Derechos comunales sobre la Tierra

   Tierra e Inversiones

   VGGT

   escala

   inversiones en tierras

   The reality that significant improvements in security of tenure at scale in rural Africa are still needed nearly a decade after the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land;Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) suggests a need to explore its limitations and consider what it would take to realize its objectives. The article documents significant impacts of the VGGT reform processes and highlights illustrative or “one-off” results.

2. Library Resource

   

   How and why large scale agricultural land investments do not create long-term employment benefits: A critique of the ‘state’ of labour regulations in Ghana

   Land Use Policy Volume 95

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Junio, 2020

   República Centroafricana, Ghana

   Tierra e Inversiones

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   inversiones en tierras

   Utilización de la tierra

   Investigación

   escala

   Support for large scale agricultural investments in Africa has been mainly premised on their employment prospects for local populations. However, despite earlier calls by Tania Li to centre labour in the land grabs debate, labour is generally invisible in both mainstream policy and academic research. This paper, through a governance lens, draws attention to the implications of the global land rush on wage labour.

3. Library Resource

   

   Assessing the relationship between land tenure issues and land cover changes around the Arabuko Sokoke Forest in Kenya

   Land Use Policy Volume 95

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Junio, 2020

   Kenya, Noruega

   Indígenas y Derechos comunales sobre la Tierra

   Tierra e Inversiones

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Sistemas de información geográfica

   cobertura de suelos

   Alteración de la cubierta vegetal

   inversiones en tierras

   Derechos de tierras

   Tenencia de la tierra

   Utilización de la tierra

   Investigación

   Land as an essential resource is becoming increasingly scarce due to population growth. In the case of the Kenyan coast, population pressure causes land cover changes in the Arabuko Sokoke Forest, which is an important habitat for endangered species. Forest and bushland have been changed to agricultural land in order to provide livelihood for the rural population who are highly dependent on small-scale farming. Unclear land rights and misbalanced access to land cause uncontrolled expansion and insecure livelihoods.

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   Small-scale land acquisitions, large-scale implications: Exploring the case of Chinese banana investments in Northern Laos

   Land Use Policy Volume 57

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Noviembre, 2016

   Laos

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Adquisiciones de tierras

   acaparamiento de tierras

   Utilización de la tierra

   Cambio de uso de la tierra

   Investigación

   escala

   The scholarly debate around ‘global land grabbing’ is advancing theoretically, methodologically and empirically. This study contributes to these ongoing efforts by investigating a set of ‘small-scale land acquisitions’ in the context of a recent boom in banana plantation investments in Luang Namtha Province, Laos. In relation to the actors, scales and processes involved, the banana acquisitions differ from the state-granted large-scale land acquisitions dominating the literature on ‘land grabbing’ in Laos.

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   Land use optimization tool for sustainable intensification of high-latitude agricultural systems

   Land Use Policy Volume 88

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Noviembre, 2019

   Finlandia, Noruega

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Sistemas de información geográfica

   Asignación de tierras

   Utilización de la tierra

   Cambio de uso de la tierra

   Investigación

   Recent studies assessing agricultural policies, including the EU’s Agri-Environment Scheme, have shown that these have been successful in attaining some environmental goals. In Finland, however, the economic situation of farms has dramatically fallen and hence, the actions do not result in social acceptability. Sustainable intensification is a means to combine the three dimensions of sustainability: environmental, economic and social. Here we introduce a novel land use optimization and planning tool for the sustainable intensification of high-latitude agricultural systems.

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   Female labor outcomes and large-scale agricultural land investments: Macro-micro evidencefrom Tanzania

   Land Use Policy Volume 82

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Marzo, 2019

   Tanzania

   Tierra e Inversiones

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   inversiones en tierras

   Utilización de la tierra

   Investigación

   escala

   This paper examined the extent to which Large-scale Agricultural Land Investments (LALIs) has delivered on its promises (e.g. increased productivity, job creation, and rural development, particularly for rural women). We conducted empirical analyses using the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) dataset (macro evidence), which was complemented with two case studies of LALIs in Kilombero district, Morogoro region, Tanzania (micro evidence). The findings from the study revealed that the LALIs have limited effect on agricultural wage.