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Géopolitique des forêts d’Afrique centrale

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2020
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
deforestation
forest conservation
À rebours des autres régions du monde, l’Afrique pourrait devenir bientôt le continent de la déforestation, avec la République démocratique du Congo qui perd plus d’un million d’hectares de couvert arboré par an. En Afrique centrale, la déforestation est le fait d’une petite agriculture dont l’emprise géographique s’accroît avec la démographie et la volonté de se constituer des patrimoines fonciers.
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Forests to the Foreigners

Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Gabon

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2021
Gabon
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
land-use planning
forestry
agriculture
mining
land acquisitions
For the past decade, the land rush discourse has analyzed foreign investment in land and agriculture around the world, with Africa being a continent of particular focus due to the scale of acquisitions that have taken place. Gabon, a largely forested state in Central Africa, has been neglected in the land rush conversations, despite having over half of its land allocated to forestry, agriculture, and mining concessions. This paper draws on existing evidence and contributes new empirical data through expert interviews to fill this critical knowledge gap.
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La situation mondiale de l’alimentation et de l’agriculture 2021

Rendre les systèmes agroalimentaires plus résilients face aux chocs et aux situations de stress

Journal Articles & Books
Peer-reviewed publication
Reports & Research
November, 2021
Africa, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Europe, Oceania
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
sustainable development
food security
agrarian reform
agroforestry systems
agropastoral systems
peri-urban agriculture
La pandémie de covid-19 a fait apparaître au grand jour la vulnérabilité des systèmes agroalimentaires face aux chocs et aux situations de stress et entraîné une augmentation de l’insécurité alimentaire et de la malnutrition au niveau mondial. Des mesures doivent être prises pour rendre les systèmes agroalimentaires plus résilients, plus efficients, plus durables et plus inclusifs.
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Improving Governance of Tenure in Policy and Practice: Monitoring in a Space for Multiple Views

Journal Articles & Books
Peer-reviewed publication
October, 2020
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
VGGT
development
sustainable development
land rights
The dynamics of current global challenges—like food and nutrition security, environmental degradation, climate change, and emergencies—reduce the availability of and/or access to natural resources, and thereby underline the urgency of achieving transformational changes in the governance of tenure. This is increasingly required to bring the greatest good to the most people, in line with human rights.
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Cambodia’s Unofficial Regime of Extraction: Illicit Logging in the Shadow of Transnational Governance and Investment

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2015
Cambodia
Forest Tenure
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
land governance
corruption
deforestation
forest conservation
foreign investment
government
extractive industries
Cambodia has recently demonstrated one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. While scholars have long explored the drivers of tropical forest loss, the case of Cambodia offers particular insights into the role of the state where transnational governance and regional integration are increasingly the norm. Given the significant role logging rents play in Cambodia’s post-conflict state formation, this article explores the contemporary regime and its ongoing codependent relationship with forested land.
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Effectiveness of community forest user groups (CFUGs) in responding to the 2015 earthquakes and COVID-19 in Nepal

Peer-reviewed publication
October, 2020
Nepal
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
COVID-19
natural disasters
forestry
community forestry
Natural disasters and pandemics are evolving as major global threats that are posing an enormous challenge to socio- economic and environmental wellbeing. Using a real time analysis of the impressive role played by Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs) in Nepal in responding to the 2015 earthquakes (Earthquake-15) and COVID-19, this paper explores the scopes, capacities, institutional strengths and attributes required for community-based institutions such as CFUGs to become effective in managing and responding natural or other disasters.
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Les urbanistes sont-ils condamnés à l’impuissance ?

Implantations commerciales

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2018
France
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
Urban Tenure
land governance
Les implantations commerciales et leurs transformations ont un impact considérable sur l’organisation territoriale, alors qu’elles sont particulièrement difficiles à encadrer avec les outils d’urbanisme. Que faire ? Une équipe locale rend compte de ses expériences.

Le développement du commerce a longtemps été considéré comme une question privée. Elle ne concernait pas la sphère publique. L’implication des collectivités – et des urbanistes – sur ce sujet est assez récente.
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Les urbanistes sont-ils condamnés à l’impuissance ?

Implantations commerciales

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2018
France
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
Urban Tenure
land governance
Les implantations commerciales et leurs transformations ont un impact considérable sur l’organisation territoriale, alors qu’elles sont particulièrement difficiles à encadrer avec les outils d’urbanisme. Que faire ? Une équipe locale rend compte de ses expériences.

Le développement du commerce a longtemps été considéré comme une question privée. Elle ne concernait pas la sphère publique. L’implication des collectivités – et des urbanistes – sur ce sujet est assez récente.
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Governing Landscapes for Ecosystem Services: A Participatory Land- Use Scenario Development in the Northwest Montane Region of Vietnam

Peer-reviewed publication
October, 2020
Vietnam
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land law
land-use planning
public participation
climate change
community forestry
forest conservation
forest land
agroforestry systems
agriculture
customary land rights
customary tenure
Land-use planning is an important policy instrument for governing landscapes to achieve multifunctionality in rural areas. This paper presents a case study conducted in Na Nhan commune in the northwest montane region of Vietnam to assess land-use strategies toward multiple ecosystem services, through integrated land-use planning.
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Forest Area Changes in Cinque Terre National Park in the Last 80 Years. Consequences on Landslides and Forest Fire Risks

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Australia, Belgium, Canada, United States of America, Europe
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
forestry
Cinque Terre, one of the most important Italian cultural landscapes, has not been spared from depopulation and agricultural abandonment processes, that involved many rural areas in Europe, as a consequence of socio-economic transformations that occurred after WWII. Depopulation of rural areas, especially in mountains or in terraced areas, caused significant environmental consequences, such as the decrease of biodiversity, the landscape homogenization, the increase of hydrogeological and forest fires risks.