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Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change

How Strengthening Community Forest Rights Mitigates Climate Change

Reports & Research
July, 2014
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
environment
climate change
community forestry
deforestation
forest land
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
natural resources management
land rights
community land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
With deforestation and other land uses accounting for 11 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, the international community agrees on the need to address deforestation as an important component of climate change. Community forests represent a vital opportunity to curbing climate change that has been undervalued. Today communities have legal or official rights to at least 513 million hectares of forests, only about one eighth of the world’s total, comprising 37.7 billion tonnes of carbon.
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Comunidad resiste la expansión de la agroindustria con agricultura orgánica

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Guatemala
Land & Gender
agriculture
La comunidad de Monseñor Romero se encuentra en la zona costera de Guatemala, región acaparada por los monocultivos de caña de azúcar, banano y palma africana. Para generar autoempleo, mejorar la fertilidad de sus tierras y evitar la explotación laboral de la agricultura industrial, la comunidad cambió sus cultivos tradicionales de maíz y ajonjolí por la producción orgánica de la flor de loroco (Fernaldia pandurata).
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Building a common vision for sustainable food and agriculture

Principles & Approaches

Manuals & Guidelines
December, 2014
Global
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
agriculture
agroforestry systems
capacity development
development agencies
farmers
farming systems
fisheries
sustainable land management
Over the coming 35 years, agriculture will face an unprecedented confluence of pressures, including a 30 percent increase in the global population, intensifying competition for increasingly scarce land, water and energy resources, and the existential threat of climate change. To provide for a population projected to reach 9.3 billion in 2050 and support changing dietary patterns, estimates are that food production will need to increase from the current 8.4 billion tonnes to almost 13.5 billion tonnes a year.
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The Roles of Land Tenure Reforms and Land Markets in the Context of Population Growth and Land Use Intensification in Africa

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2014
Eastern Africa
Land & Investments
land reform
land rights
This article reviews the past and potential future roles of land tenure reforms and land markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as responses to population growth in the process of land use intensification and livelihood transformation. The farm size distribution and the existence of an inverse relationship (IR) between farm size and land productivity in SSA and the implications of this relationship for efficiency and equity are investigated.
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Conservation and “Land Grabbing” in Rangelands: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?

Policy Papers & Briefs
October, 2014
Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
forest conservation
land acquisitions
land grabbing
land rights
local communities
Large-scale land acquisitions have increased in scale and pace due to changes in commodity markets, agricultural investment strategies, land prices, and a range of other policy and market forces. The areas most affected are the global “commons” – lands that local people traditionally use collectively — including much of the world’s forests, wetlands, and rangelands. In some cases land acquisition occurs with environmental objectives in sight – including the setting aside of land as protected areas for biodiversity conservation.
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Plotting progress: integrated planning in the rangelands of Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uganda

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2014
Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
food security
land use
land-use planning
local communities
pastoral land rights
pastoralists
rangelands
Ill advised, uncoordinated, and badly planned interventions have been blamed for continuing poverty and food insecurity in rangelands. Water interventions in particular have had negative impacts. Not only have these interventions failed to improve the livelihoods of people living there, but in many cases they have served to undermine them and the environment on which they depend. Rangeland development interventions have been sectoral in their approach.
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Urban Footprint of Mumbai - The Commercial Capital of India

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2014
India
Urban Tenure
urbanization
urban population
urban areas
Urban footprint refers to the proportion of paved surface (built up, roads, etc.) with the reduction of other land use types in a region. Rapid increase in the urban areas is the major driver in landscape dynamics with the significant erosion in the quality and quantity of the natural ecosystems. The urban expansion process hence needs to be monitored, quantified and understood for effective planning and the sustainable management of natural resources.
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A decision support system in order to facilitate new financing actions in the public sector

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2014
Italy
cadastres
land cover mapping
This analytical in-depth study on the financing modalities adopted in the Region of Piedmont was carried out with the contribution of those directly involved in the decision-making process enabling
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Un’esperienza empirica per il confronto tra valore catastale e valore di mercato: il caso di Milano

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2014
Italy
cadastres
land cover mapping
Il progetto restituisce il grado di qualità del classamento catastale della città di Milano determinato
dall’indice di scostamento tra il valore catastale e il più probabile valore di mercato delle unità immobiliari.
L’elaborazione è stata eseguita sull’intero stock edilizio catastale ordinario (categoria A0* e C0*) composto
da oltre 1.200.000 unità immobiliari urbane.
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The value of building plots in Italy - pdf

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2014
Italy
cadastres
land cover mapping
This paper suggests some analysis on dynamics of building plots value in Italy. This is an important subject, since the study of changes in plots value in space and time enables the evaluation of urban rent, which is essential for a fair and effective planning. The analysis confirm past hypothesis which are well known to real estate market operators. The first resulting fact is that the changes in building plots value are concurrent to those in real estate value and the increase occurring in the last years is in relative terms higher than the past one.