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1. Library Resource

   

   “Land grabbing” by foreign investors in developing countries. Risks and opportunities

   Enero, 2009

   Tierra y Seguridad Alimentaria

   Seguridad alimentaría

   acaparamiento de tierras

   Tierras

   One of the effects of the food price crisis on the world food system is the increasing acquisition of farmland in developing countries by other countries seeking to ensure their food supplies.This brief analyses the pros and cons of land acquisitions in developing countries by capital rich economies. It argues that acquisitions have the potential to inject much needed investment into agriculture and rural areas in poor developing countries resulting into creation of farm and off-farm jobs and development of rural infrastructure.

2. Library Resource

   

   Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Informes e investigaciones

   Diciembre, 2002

   América del Sur, Brasil

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Degradación de tierras

   Pobreza

   Tenencia de la tierra

   modos de aprovechamiento

   Deforestación

   Valoración de tierras

   Ordenación de recursos naturales

   Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier?

3. Library Resource

   

   Perceived Land Tenure Security and Rural Transformation: Empirical Evidence from Ghana

   Informes e investigaciones

   Julio, 2016

   Ghana, África

   Tierra y Género

   Tierra e Inversiones

   Mujeres

   Tierras

   Mercado de tierras

   Agricultores

   Tenencia de la tierra

   Using household- and plot-level data from Ghana, analyzes the main factors associated with farmers’ perceived tenure security. Individually, farmers perceive greater tenure security on plots acquired via inheritance than on land allocated by traditional authorities. But collectively, perceived tenure security lessens in communities with more active land markets and economic vibrancy. Migrant households and women in polygamous households feel less secure about their tenure, while farmers with political connections are more confident about their tenure security.

4. Library Resource

   

   “Land Grabbing” by Foreign Investors in Developing Countries: Risks and Opportunities

   Informes e investigaciones

   Abril, 2009

   África

   Tierra e Inversiones

   Adquisiciones de tierras

   Tierras

   acaparamiento de tierras

   inversiones en tierras

   escala

   Includes rising land acquisition in developing countries; threats and opportunities from large-scale land acquisitions; making a virtue of necessity: toward win-win policies; 5 tables of media reports on overseas land investments to secure food supplies, 2006-09.

5. Library Resource

   

   Who Owns the Land? Perspectives from Rural Ugandans and Implications for Land Acquisitions

   Informes e investigaciones

   Noviembre, 2011

   África

   Tierra y Género

   Tierras

   Tenencia de la tierra

   Adquisiciones de tierras

   Posesión

   Derechos de tierras

   Derechos de propiedad

   Propietarios rurales

   Mujeres

   Includes key concepts for understanding land rights; land tenure and women’s property rights in Uganda; land acquisition in Uganda; who owns the land? Perspectives from the local level. Analyses how different ways of defining landownership provide very different indications of the gendered patterns of landownership and rights. Although many households report that husbands and wives jointly own the land, women are less likely to be listed on ownership documents, especially titles, and women have fewer land rights.

6. Library Resource

   

   The Economics of Desertification, Land Degradation, and Drought

   Toward an Integrated Global Assessment

   Artículos de revistas y libros

   Informes e investigaciones

   Mayo, 2011

   Global

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Pastizales, Tierras secas y Pastoreo

   Desertificación

   Degradación de tierras

   Economía de la tierra

   Since the publication of the Report of the Brundtland Commission (Our Common Future) in 1987, and the consequent Earth Summit on sustainable development, global attention on natural resource scarcity and degradation has been increasing, because of climate change and rising food and energy prices. This awareness, in turn, has led to growing interest in land investments by the private and public sectors. Despite this interest, however, land degradation has not been comprehensively addressed at the global level or in developing countries.

7. Library Resource

   

   Paving the Way for Development?

   The Impact of Transport Infrastructure on Agricultural Production and Poverty Reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo

   Informes e investigaciones

   Diciembre, 2009

   República Democrática del Congo

   Tierra y Seguridad Alimentaria

   Seguridad alimentaría

   Sistemas de información geográfica

   inversiones en tierras

   Mercado de tierras

   Pobreza

   Investigación

   Desarrollo rural

   Given its vast land resources and favorable water supply, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) natural agricultural potential is immense. However, the economic potential of the sector is handicapped by one of the most dilapidated transport systems in the developing world (World Bank 2006). Road investments are therefore a high priority in the government’s investment plans and those of its major donors.

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   A 2020 Vision for food, agriculture, and the environment in Sub-Saharan Africa

   a synthesis

   Documentos de política y resúmenes

   Diciembre, 1995

   África subsahariana, África

   Tierra y Seguridad Alimentaria

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Agricultura

   Desarrollo rural

   Seguridad alimentaría

   Degradación de tierras

   inversiones en tierras

   The workshop participants were clear that now is the time for choices, and that without the will to make those choices, the likelihood of success in boosting agricultural growth on a sustained basis would be small. Without such growth, it will not be possible to improve food security or halt natural resource degradation. It seems unlikely that all countries of Africa will choose to put in place the necessary conditions for growth, which makes it all the more important to decide at the outset which conditions are most likely to beget further success.

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   Ending hunger in Africa

   only the small farmer can do it

   Documentos de política y resúmenes

   Diciembre, 2002

   África oriental, África occidental, África austral, África subsahariana, África

   Tierra y Seguridad Alimentaria

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Seguridad alimentaría

   Agricultores

   Pobreza

   Degradación de tierras

   Agricultura

   inversiones en tierras

   "In contrast to popular predictions of Africa’s worsening economic decline, recent research supports an alternative and more positive vision of Africa’s future. New political commitment and African ownership of the development agenda, combined with a renewed focus on and investments in smallholder-led agriculture, have the potential to halt or reverse the current downward spiral of hunger, poverty, environmental degradation, disease, and civil strife.

10. Library Resource

    

    Social captial, legal institutions, and property rights: Overview

    Publicación revisada por pares

    Artículos de revistas y libros

    Diciembre, 2003

    Tierra y Género

    Tierra y Seguridad Alimentaria

    Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

    Derechos de propiedad

    Mujeres

    Asignación de tierras

    Sistemas de explotación

    Agricultura

    Ordenación de recursos naturales

    Legislación agraria

    Pesca

    Juventud

    The previous sections have highlighted the importance of assets as a determinant of bargaining power within marriage. Both formal and informal institutions underlie asset accumulation and provide the basis for property rights. When women face social and legal restrictions in acquiring certain forms of assets, such as land, they may resort to accumulating other “assets” and investing in other forms of capital.