ICARDA has long-standing outreach programs in North Africa, the Nile Valley, and the Red Sea region (Fig 2). In its current strategic plan, the Center will extend its work to the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2009Afganistán, Argelia, Egipto, Eritrea, Etiopía, Irán, Libia, Marruecos, Mauritania, Pakistán, Sudán, Túnez, Turquía, África occidental, África oriental, África septentrional, Asia meridional, Asia occidental
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Vol 2, No 1: March 2019, Special Issue on Women&Land
Publicación revisada por paresMarzo, 2019África occidentalThis article discusses different issues pertaining gender and land governance with focus to access and control of land by rural women and how this affects their resilience in G5-Sahel region- Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Mauritania. Findings show that land remains the property of men, customary chiefs, male members of the family who have the full control of land use; women continue to serve as servants of their husbands in the farming activities.
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Vol 3, No 1: January 2020, Special Issue 1 on Land Policy in Africa
Publicación revisada por paresEnero, 2020MalíThe goal of this research was to understand the driving forces and agents that prevent the effective application of land-use policies through plan implementation, in the fastest growing city in Africa, Bamako District.The current results yield from the field work done in November and December of 2017. The survey was done at three levels, including interviews with official actors, and questionnaires sent to with citizens and the neighborhood leaders and neighborhood development Committees (Comité de Développement de Quartier: CDQ).
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Vol 3, No 2: May 2020
Publicación revisada por paresMayo, 2020Tierras Australes y Antárticas Francesas, NigeriaUtilization of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes poses a threat to food production and agriculture commercialization. Hence, this study examined Rural Land Utilization and Commercial Agriculture among Female arable Crop Farmers in South West Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used to collect primary data through questionnaire administration. Findings shows that 71.62% of the women had land market index of 0, indicating that they obtained their land through non-transaction based method and 28.38% acquired their land through transaction based method.
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Vol 3, No 1: March 2020, Special Issue 2 on Land Policy in Africa
Publicación revisada por paresMarzo, 2020BeninThis paper focuses on gender mainstreaming in modeling the impacts of climate change by development sector. Inspired by the methodologies of the Guillaumont economic vulnerability index (2008, 2009) and the UNDP poverty vulnerability ratio (2011), a synthetic index called the ‘Index of Inequality of Gender Vulnerability to Climate Change (IIGVcc)’, which is a modeling by development sector, of vulnerability inequalities to climate change between men and women, is proposed.
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Vol 3, No 1: January 2020, Special Issue 1 on Land Policy in Africa
Publicación revisada por paresEnero, 2020GhanaSecuring land rights of all including the youth to allow for investment is very imperative. This is because access to land is very fundamental to ending extreme poverty especially in the Sub-Saharan Africa where agriculture remains the economic backbone of majority of households. To this end, access to fair and timeous land disputes resolution mechanism to adjudicate and resolve disputes which create tenure insecurity is critical. This study investigates land dispute cases and the resolution mechanisms among the youth land holders in the Techiman area of Ghana.
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Vol 3, No 1: January 2020, Special Issue 1 on Land Policy in Africa
Publicación revisada por paresEnero, 2020LiberiaIn October 2016 the Liberia Land Authority (LLA|) was legislated as the Nation’s first one-stop-shop for land management and administration. The LLA has the statutory mandate to administer land administration across the nation. The Authority is charged with supporting the development of a National Land Use and Management Agenda.
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Vol 3, No 1: January 2020, Special Issue 1 on Land Policy in Africa
Publicación revisada por paresEnero, 2020NigeriaClimate change poses serious challenges to the sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture systems, with severe implications for the majority people who depend on them largely for their livelihoods. Therefore, this study investigates factors influencing the vulnerability of fishing activities to climate change among artisanal fisher-folks in coastal area of Lagos, Nigeria. A three-stage random sampling technique was used to select 342 artisanal fishers from the study area.
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Vol 4, No 1: January 2021
Publicación revisada por paresEnero, 2021África, NigeriaThe Study evaluated the locational suitability of established Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) in Southwestern Nigeria and proposed optimum locations for additional CORS in the study area. These were with the view of determining the sufficiency of the existing CORS distribution for various applications in the study area. Secondary data were used for the study. The secondary data used were the shapefiles of the states and local governments as well as the positions of the CORS.
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Vol 3: Special Issue 3, 2020
Publicación revisada por paresNoviembre, 2020Burkina FasoIn the search for rural transformation, this paper analyses the effect of agriculture on rural nonfarm entrepreneurship (NFE) highlighting the role of land rights and assesses the impact of rural NFE on households’ livelihood focusing on rural Burkina Faso. To achieve these objectives, the study uses two techniques: (i) propensity score matching technique to investigate the nonfarm entrepreneurship impact on farm households’ income; (ii) logistic regression to assess the role of agriculture in the development of nonfarm enterprises.
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