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Reducing the vulnerability of urban slum dwellers in the Southern African region to the impact of climate change and disasters

January, 2011
Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, Eswatini, South Africa, Malawi, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land governance
Current estimates of climate change state that the world’s average temperature is due to increase by at least 2oC to 2.4oC over the next 50?100 years. Furthermore it is expected that by the end of the century a range of additional impacts will be felt: sea levels will rise by an estimated 60cm, resulting in flooding and the salinisation of fresh water aquifers, and snow and ice cover will decrease. Simultaneously, precipitation patterns will change so that some areas will receive large increases whilst other areas will become hotter and drier.
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Urban land markets in Southern African cities

January, 2011
Mozambique, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Investments
land governance
land
land markets
The cities in southern Africa reflect the rapid urbanisation characteristic of sub-Saharan Africa in general. Angola, Botswana and South Africa have the highest levels of urbanisation with about 60% of their population living in cities in 2010 and this percentage is expected to rise to about 80% by 2050.
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Decentralised Land Governance: Case studies and local voices from Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique

Reports & Research
June, 2011
Mozambique, Madagascar, Botswana, Africa
land governance
land
land rights
advocacy
The 3 case studies are located against the backdrop of changing land governance, tenure policy and legislation in Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique. They examine how power and authority over decision-making and resources or functions is distributed between central, regional and local levels of governance. They explore the roles and perspectives of other actors such as non-governmental bodies, traditional governance institutions, user associations or village committees, the private sector and other organisations of civil society.
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Limpopo Basin Development Challenge

January, 2012
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, Southern Africa
farming systems
water management
Limpopo Basin

The Limpopo is a relatively dry basin and most water in the more productive areas is already claimed. Rainfall is highly variable and in many parts of the basin there is little run-off with which to produce crops and livestock. The basin is a water-scarce environment in which recurring drought and floods cause devastating impacts on the livelihoods of small-scale, subsistence farmers. However, the more pressing development challenge in these farming systems is the unproductive use of water in the more normal rainfall seasons which are much more prevalent.
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L4: Water Governance in the Limpopo Basin

January, 2011
Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
water management
rangelands
The project focuses on access and control of water/land, and the associated management and governance mechanisms. L4 seeks to provide the people and governments of the Limpopo Basin with:

1. A package of ways to better understand and organise access rights to water for multiple uses from farm level to the basin and regional level,

2. A package of ways to organise technologies for different physical and socio-economic contexts so as to improve the management and control of water for multiple uses from one or more water sources,
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Decentralised Land Governance

Case studies and local voices from Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique

Reports & Research
June, 2011
Madagascar, Mozambique, Botswana
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
customary tenure
land administration
land allocation
land law
statutory tenure
This reviews the literature on decentralised land governance in Southern Africa, highlighting key issues and challenges of ‘land governance from below’.
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current bioenergy production potential of semi-arid and arid regions in sub-Saharan Africa

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Botswana, Kenya, South Africa, Africa, Southern Africa
land use
This article assesses the current technical and economic potential of three bioenergy production systems (cassava ethanol, jatropha oil and fuelwood) in semi-arid and arid regions of eight sub-Saharan African countries. The results indicate that the availability of land for energy production ranges from 2% (1.3 Mha) of the total semi-arid and arid area in South Africa to 21% (12 Mha) in Botswana. Land availability for bioenergy production is restricted mainly by agricultural land use, but also by steep slopes and biodiversity protection.
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Revue des questions foncières 01/2011

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Rwanda, Laos, Belgium, Philippines, South Africa, Uganda, Germany, Italy, Botswana, Vietnam, United Kingdom, Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon, Brazil
land
land-use planning
land governance
land administration
land tenure
natural disasters
land access
land reform
Second issue of the Journal, which is now published in both hardcopy and in electronic formats and provides an open, impartial and practice-oriented global forum for promoting the latest knowledge in land tenure. This issue features five continents and subcontinents exploring common challenges including tenure governance, the legal recognition of customary tenures, land scarcity and redistributive reforms, and the increasing role of information technology in tenure systems.
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Report on the Symposium on Legal Aspects of Large Scale Investments in Land: Implications for Food Security and Rural Development

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Angola, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, China, Ghana, Ethiopia, Niger, Malawi, Thailand, Mozambique, Liberia, Japan, South Africa, Vietnam, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana, Argentina, India, Uganda, Brazil
property rights
land governance
land tenure
rural development
private ownership
land ownership
The Symposium on Legal Aspects of Large Scale Investments in Land: Implications for Food Security and Rural Development was held at FAO Headquarters in Rome on March 4th 2011. The Symposium was co-hosted by FAO and the World Food Law Institute at Howard University School of Law.
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La Situation Mondiale de l'Alimentation et de l'Agriculture 2010-2011

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Kenya, Mali, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Guatemala, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Malawi, Pakistan, Niger, Panama, Mozambique, Philippines, Lesotho, Madagascar, Botswana, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Togo
property rights
land use
land tenure
poverty
private ownership
land governance
land ownership
Les femmes participent de manière considérable à l’économie rurale dans toutes les régions en développement. Si les rôles qu’elles assument sont différents selon les régions, on observe toutefois partout qu’elles ont un accès plus restreint que les hommes aux ressources et aux débouchés qui leur permettraient d’être plus productives.