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Reports & Research
April 2017

<h3>The Global Report on Internal Displacement presents the latest information on internal displacement worldwide caused by conflict, violence and disasters.</h3>

There were <strong>31.1 million</strong> new internal displacements by <strong>conflict,…

Conference Papers & Reports
April 2017

The World Bank Group and UN-Habitat as co-custodians of the SDG Indicator 1.4.2, in collaboration with the Global Land Indicator Initiative (GLII) organized an international Expert Group Meeting (EGM) at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington D.C. from 25 -26 May 2017 in preparation for the…

Peer-reviewed publication
April 2017

A number of national, regional and global land cover classification systems have been developed to meet specific user requirements for land cover mapping exercises, independent of scale, nomenclature and quality. However, this variety of land-cover classification systems limits the compatibility…

Reports & Research
April 2017

This research report presents an assessment of local awareness in the Amajuba District of government's proposed Agri-Park and Agri-Village programmes. It also considers secondary data on international examples of Agri-Parks and Agri-Villages.

Conference Papers & Reports
April 2017

From 9 to 11 November 2016 the ‘symposium on land consolidation and land readjustment for sustainable development’ was held in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. The symposium was a joint initiative from FIG commissions 7 and 8, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), LANDNET…

Conference Papers & Reports
April 2017

Sustainable Land Management (SLM) are required to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN). SLM options are fitted to the social, economic and ecological contexts. The high contextual diversity of drylands in particular prevents the design and application of “uniform blanket” policies to…

Policy Papers & Briefs
April 2017

The problem of rangeland degradation can be reversed through revegetation, for example through inclusion of various locally adapted native species in the reseeding. Reseeding is the process by which rangelands are rehabilitated and it has two purposes; to ‘repair’ the degenerated rangeland…

Reports & Research
April 2017

In the accelerating process of urbanization and social transition era, industrialization, urbanization and construction of urban-rural integration also inevitably leads to the land expropriation, land conflicts have become important issues in the development process. To make an intensive study…

Conference Papers & Reports
April 2017

This event, hosted at ODI in London, was convened to discuss the use of new technologies to map and document land rights, and their impact on land registration and administration, and provide updates on recent activities of Forum members, including DFID.  
Recent innovations in technology…

Reports & Research
April 2017

Sin semillas, no hay agricultura. Desde los inicios de esta actividad, hace más de 10 000 años lo-a-s campesino-a-s seleccionan los mejores granos de sus cosechas para volverlos a sembrar, intercambiarlos o venderlos a sus vecinos.
Así favorecen, dentro de las variedades de las que…

Reports & Research
April 2017

Land. Neglected, obfuscated but never quite completely forgotten, the story of Land’s marginalization from mainstream economic theory is little known. But it has important implications. Putting it back in to economics, we argue in a new book, ‘Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing’, could…