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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2016
    Global

    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.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2016
    Global

    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.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2016
    Global

    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.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2016
    Amazonia

    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.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Thailand, 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.

  6. Library Resource
    January, 2016
    Africa

    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.

  7. Library Resource
    January, 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

  8. Library Resource
    January, 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

  9. Library Resource
    April, 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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