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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2019

    A wide variety of settlement systems exist, ranging from small villages to large metropolises. However, spatial analyses are typically confined to the mere presence or absence of built-up land and the changes therein, while more subtle differences between various settlement systems are ignored. In this paper we study the spatial distribution of Chinese settlements in terms of their built-up land, cluster density and cluster size, as well as their changes between 1990 and 2010.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2018
    Sierra Leone, Africa

    There is wide engagement with large-scale land deals in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly from the perspectives of development and international political economy. Recently, scholars have increasingly pointed to a gendered lacuna in this literature. Engagement with gender tends to focus on potential differential impacts for men and women, and it also flags the need for more detailed empirical research of specific land deals.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    February, 2021

    The new scramble for land in Africa has revived debates on customary land tenure–a phenomenon that has become almost synonymous with the role of traditional chiefs in land politics. At the same time, investors

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1998
    Burkina Faso

    Chapter 2 situates the scene by presenting the historical background to the research area. First, a brief outline of the research village's history is provided. The main part of the chapter is devoted to the elaboration of case material relating to a number of conflicts over land, along the border between the kingdom of Ratenga and the kombere of Piugtenga and in which the village of Ziinoogo has been involved.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2020

    This paper reviews the scholarly literature discussing the effect(s) of land registration on the relations between land tenure security and agricultural productivity. Using 85 studies, the paper focuses on the regular claim that land registration's facilitation of formal documents-based land dealings leads to investment in a more productive agriculture. The paper shows that this claim is problematic for three reasons. First, most studies offer no empirical evidence to support the claim on the above-mentioned effect.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    April, 2019
    Western Africa

    This paper presents the results of a short-term research project conducted in 2017/2018 on the various ways in which migration and land dynamics inWest Africa are intertwined. Contrary to much conventional (policy) thinking in the European Union (EU) today, our point of departure is not that migration is the problem to be solved - nor that (access to) land is the straightforward means to discouraging migration.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2013

    markdownabstractConcerns about the potential gender and equity implications of land-related investments on labour and
    income-generating opportunities and access, use and control of land come in the context of the current
    global policy interest in supporting agricultural investment in developing countries in general.
    However, there is a long history of land-related investments in developing countries, particularly
    agricultural investments, which partially explains the current concerns. Over the last 60-70 years,

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