Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up over 50 percent of the land on the planet; they legally own just one-fifth. The remaining five billion hectares remain unprotected and vulnerable to land grabs from more powerful entities like governments and corporations.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2016Global
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2016Global
O Working Paper CEsA/CSG n.º 140 é uma reflexão, da autoria do investigador Dario Belluomini, sobre os Pagamentos por Serviços Ambientes (PSA), ou seja, um dos instrumentos mais inovadores no âmbito das políticas ambientais. Através de exemplos práticos, em contextos muito diferentes – desde países desenvolvidos a países em desenvolvimento – o investigador demonstra a complexidade deste instrumento e a sua utilidade para a protecção do meio-ambiente nos próximos anos.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchApril, 2016Global
Date: 06 avril 2016
Source: Médiaterre
Selon le WWF, La moitié des sites du Patrimoine mondial sont menacés par des activités industrielles
Selon le dernier rapport du WWF, 114 des 229 sites naturels et mixtes inscrits au Patrimoine mondial sont menacés par des activités industrielles néfastes. Concessions pétrolière, minière ou gazière, surpêche, exploitation forestière illégale, surexploitation des ressources en eau, infrastructures de transport ou de tourisme : les menaces sont nombreuses.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2016Northern America, Canada
Source: Mapaq
En février 2015, le ministre Pierre Paradis confiait à Jean Pronovost, sous-ministre à la retraite et membre de plusieurs conseils d’administration d’institutions importantes des secteurs économique et culturel, la tâche de mener cette étude et de formuler des recommandations.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchApril, 2016Amazonia
L’Amazonie brésilienne, qui abrite la majeure partie des forêts tropicales qui subsistent sur la planète, est rongée par une exploitation économique incontrôlée. Plus de 750 000 km2 de forêts ont déjà été rasés1 , principalement sous l’effet de l’agriculture industrielle, de l’élevage de bétail, de l’exploitation minière, de la construction d’infrastructures telles que des barrages hydroélectriques, de l’exploitation forestière illégale et de l’installation de nouveaux habitants qui découle de ces activités.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Christmas Island, Timor-Leste, Cocos (Keeling) Islands
This report reveals new links between Australia's big four banks and three land grabbing case studies previously documented in Oxfam's 2014 report Banking on Shaky Ground. The new report also provides evidence that, even after Oxfam first alerted the banks to their exposure to land grabs, all four banks committed tens of millions of dollars in loan facilities to the agribusiness firm Cargill. A former subsidiary of Cargill acquired large tracts of land in Colombia’s Altillanura region that had been set aside by law for family farming.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2016Africa
Drylands make up about 43 percent of the region’s land surface, account for about 75 percent of the area used for agriculture, and are home to about 50 percent of the population, including many poor. Involving complex interactions among many factors, vulnerability in drylands is rising, jeopardizing the livelihood for of millions.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2016
This paper analyzes the effects of land
market restrictions on structural change from agriculture to
non-farm in a rural economy. This paper develops a
theoretical model that focuses on higher migration costs due
to restrictions on alienability, and identifies the
possibility of a reverse structural change where the share
of nonagricultural employment declines. The reverse
structural change can occur under plausible conditions: if -
Library ResourceJanuary, 2016
This paper analyzes the effects of land
market restrictions on the rural labor market outcomes for
women. The existing literature emphasizes two mechanisms
through which land restrictions can affect the economic
outcomes: the collateral value of land, and (in) security of
property rights. Analysis of this paper focuses on an
alternative mechanism where land restrictions increase costs
of migration out of villages. The testable prediction of -
Library ResourceApril, 2016
Paralleling the increasing disparities
in income and wealth worldwide since the 1980s, cities in
developing countries have witnessed the emergence of a
growing divergence of lifestyles, particularly within the
middle classes, reinforced by the widening gap between the
quality of public and private educational and health care
institutions, spatial segregation, gated communities, and
exclusive semiprivate amenities. This erosion of social
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