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   ‘Land grabbing’: is conservation part of the problem or the solution?

   Documentos de política y resúmenes

   Septiembre, 2013

   África, América Latina y el Caribe, Asia

   Indígenas y Derechos comunales sobre la Tierra

   Tierra e Inversiones

   Incidencia

   Reforma agraria

   Sistemas agropascícolas

   inversiones en tierras

   derechos agropastoriles

   Pastoralistas

   Large-scale land acquisitions are increasing in pace and scale, in particular across parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Weak governance and poor land use planning mean that commercial ‘land grabs’ often damage biodiversity as well as dispossessing people from customary rights and livelihoods. Land can also be ‘grabbed’ for ‘green’ purposes, triggering conflicts that undermine potential synergies. Expanded state protected areas, land for carbon offset markets and REDD, and for private conservation projects all potentially conflict with community rights.

2. Library Resource

   

   ‘Like gold with yield’: evolving intersections between farmland and finance

   Artículos de revistas y libros

   Diciembre, 2014

   Propiedad de la tierra

   Since 2007, capital markets have acquired a newfound interest in agricultural land as a portfolio investment. This phenomenon is examined through the theoretical lens of financialization. On the surface the trend resembles a sort of financialization in reverse – many new investments involve agricultural production in addition to land ownership. Farmland also fits well into current financial discourses, which emphasize getting the right kind of exposure to long-term agricultural trends and ‘value investing’ in genuinely productive companies.

3. Library Resource

   

   ‘Like gold with yield’: evolving intersections between farmland and finance

   Enero, 2014

   Tierra e Inversiones

   Tierras

   Tierras agrícolas

   Tierras agrícolas

   Since 2007, capital markets have acquired a newfound interest in agricultural land as a portfolio investment. This phenomenon is examined through the theoretical lens of financialization. On the surface the trend resembles a sort of financialization in reverse – many new investments involve agricultural production in addition to land ownership. Farmland also fits well into current financial discourses, which emphasize getting the right kind of exposure to long-term agricultural trends and ‘value investing’ in genuinely productive companies.

4. Library Resource

   

   ‘Mind the Gap’: Reconnecting Local Actions and Multi-Level Policies to Bridge the Governance Gap. An Example of Soil Erosion Action from East Africa

   Volume 9 Issue 10

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Octubre, 2020

   Tanzania

   Degradación y Tenencia de la Tierra

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Pastizales, Tierras secas y Pastoreo

   Degradación de tierras

   Resiliencia

   Sistemas agropascícolas

   Achieving change to address soil erosion has been a global yet elusive goal for decades. Efforts to implement effective solutions have often fallen short due to a lack of sustained, context-appropriate and multi-disciplinary engagement with the problem.

5. Library Resource

   

   ‘New agriculture’ for sustainable development? Biofuels and agrarian change in post-war Sierra Leone

   Artículos de revistas y libros

   Junio, 2013

   África, Sierra Leona

   Derechos sobre la tierra en contextos de post-conflicto

   Seguridad alimentaría

   Negocios de tierras

   Gobernanza de la tierra

   inversiones en tierras

   Ordenación de tierras

   Ordenación de recursos naturales

   Ordenación de aguas

   In sub-Saharan Africa, commercial bioenergy production has been hailed as a new form of ‘green capitalism’ that will deliver ‘win-win’ outcomes and ‘pro poor’ development. Yet in an era of global economic recession and soaring food prices, biofuel ‘sustainability’ has been at the centre of controversy. This paper focuses on the case of post-war Sierra Leone, a country that has over the last decade been consistently ranked as one of the poorest in the world, facing food insecurity, high unemployment and entrenched poverty.

6. Library Resource

   

   ‘No Resettlement Available’: An assessment of the expropriation principle and its impact on land reform in Namibia

   Informes e investigaciones

   Noviembre, 2007

   Namibia, África

   Reforma de la tenencia de la tierra

   Tierras

   Evaluación

   Agricultores

   Expropiación

   Contains introduction, 3 farms – the beginnings of land expropriation in Namibia; the Agricultural (Commercial) Land Reform Act 6 of 1995; the process of land reform in Namibia; the resettlement programme revisited; farm workers and resettlement; conclusions and recommendations. Argues that Namibia has to reconceptualise its agrarian model because the present land reform programme is setting impoverished black farmers up to fail.

7. Library Resource

   

   ‘Not One More Bloody Acre’: Land Restitution and the Treaty of Waitangi Settlement Process in Aotearoa New Zealand

   Volume 8 Issue 11

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Noviembre, 2019

   Global

   Tierras

   Investigación

   Te Tiriti o Waitangi, signed between Māori rangatira (chiefs) and the British Crown in 1840 guaranteed to Māori the ‘full, exclusive and undisturbed possession of their lands’. In the decades that followed, Māori were systematically dispossessed of all but a fraction of their land through a variety of mechanisms, including raupatu (confiscation), the individualisation of title, excessive Crown purchasing and the compulsory acquisition of land for public works.

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   ‘Our land they took’: San land rights under threat in Namibia

   Informes e investigaciones

   Diciembre, 2006

   Namibia, África

   Pastizales, Tierras secas y Pastoreo

   Reforma de la tenencia de la tierra

   Derechos de tierras

   Desposesión

   Pastoreo

   Tierras

   A study of the San, the poorest and most marginalised minority group in Namibia, with little access to existing political and economic institutions. They have been dispossessed of most of their ancestral lands and on lands they still occupy there are major issues of resource overuse, degradation, illegal grazing, unclear legal status and ongoing threats of dispossession. Looks at threats to San lands in 4 distinct parts of the country and the legal issues raised by those threats.

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   ‘Shifting ground’

   Renegotiating land rights and rural livelihoods in Sarawak, Malaysia

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Agosto, 2011

   Malasia

   Indígenas y Derechos comunales sobre la Tierra

   Tierra e Inversiones

   derecho agrario

   Tierras indígenas

   Utilización de la tierra

   Agricultura

   Cambio de uso de la tierra

   inversiones en tierras

   Derechos tradicionales de tierras

   Derechos sobre tierras indígenas

   Tenencia de tierras indígenas

   Pueblos indígenas

   Industrias de la palma aceitera

   In this paper, we use an actor-oriented perspective to explore the nature and extent of conflict and negotiation with regard to land use and tenure among the Iban of Sarawak. The Iban are shifting cultivators who have long been involved in smallholder cash crops.

10. Library Resource

    

    ‘Smart subsidies’? A critical review of the Malawi fertiliser subsidy programme

    Artículos de revistas y libros

    Diciembre, 2013

    Malawi

    Gobernanza de la tierra

    Política agraria

    Agricultura

    Legislación agraria

    Initially hailed a huge success, Malawi’s effort to boost agriculture with fertiliser subsidies appears to have met with failure. The author has a look at what went wrong, arguing that developments must be assessed against the backdrop of politics.