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Growing better cities

Urban Agriculture for sustainable development

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2006
Global
Urban Tenure
agriculture
environment
food security
natural resources management
research
urban planning
The United Nations predicts that over the next 25 years nearly all population growth will be in the cities of the developing world. At current rates, 60% of the world’s total population will live in cities by 2030. As the cities grow, so does the number of urban poor. Unemployment, hunger, and malnutrition are commonplace. In the big city, most of any cash income the poor might bring home goes to feeding themselves and staying alive; any food that does not have to be bought is a bonus.
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Tree based carbon storage and land tenure

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2010
Global
Forest Tenure
climate change
forestry
land rights
research
Tree-Based Carbon Storage in Developing Countries: Neglect of the Social Sciences Jon D. Unruha a Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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FAO Land Tenure Journal 1/2011

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Global
land
land tenure
property
A new issue of the FAO Land Tenure Journal is now published in both hardcopy and in electronic formats. The 1/2011 issue features five continents and subcontinents exploring common challenges including tenure governance, the legal recognition of customary tenures, land scarcity and redistributive reforms, and the increasing role of information technology in tenure systems. The Land Tenure Journal provides an open, impartial and practice-oriented global forum for promoting the latest knowledge in land tenure.
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Monitoring land quality : assuring more sustainable agricultural production systems

Journal Articles & Books
September, 1998
Global
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land
land suitability
natural resources management
property
research
sustainable land management
Identification of Land Quality Indicators (LQIs) is a key requirement of sustainable land management. They are required to assess, monitor, and evaluate changes in the quality of land resources and environmental impacts. The Land Quality Indicator (LQI) program monitors the environment and the sector performance of managed ecosystems. The program is being developed on a national and regional scale, but it is also part of a larger global effort to improve natural resource management. The LQI program recommends addressing issues of land management by agroecological zones.
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Sustainable agricultural intensification: The promise of innovative farming practices

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2014
Global
Land & Food Security
agricultural land management
food security
intensive land use
land management
sustainable land management
Sustainable agricultural intensification holds promise to play a
role in the broader effort to ensure food security while protecting our natural
resource base. But what would such a sustainable intensification look like in
practice? This chapter presents the results of an ex ante assessment of the yield
and food security potential of 11 technologies for the sustainable intensification
of the key staple crops of maize, rice, and wheat.
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Land tenure reforms, tenure security and food security in poor agrarian economies: Causal linkages and research gaps

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Global
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Investments
food security
environment
land investments
land acquisitions
land grabbing
title deeds
land titling
This paper reviews the literature to identify the relationship between tenure security and food security. The literatures on tenure issues and food security issues are not well connected and the scientific evidence on the causal links between tenure security and food security is very limited. The paper explores the conceptual linkages between land tenure reforms, tenure security and food security and illustrates how these vary across diverse contexts.
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'Land grabbing' and international investment law: toward a global reconfiguration of property?

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2016
South America, Africa, Europe, United States of America
Land & Investments
land grabbing
land investments
land law
land markets
land policies
property
property law
This yearbook chapter discusses the link between international investment law and commercial pressures on the world’s natural resources. It argues that changes in legal frameworks are redefining control over natural resources, and facilitating transitions toward more commercialised land relations. As pressures on resources increase, many national laws undermine the rights of people impacted by investments. If not properly thought through, international treaties to protect foreign investment could compound shortcomings of local and national governance.
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Structuring land restitution remedies for peace and stability in fragile states

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2016
Western Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land Conflicts
adjudication
land conflicts
Large-scale dislocation of populations due to land expropriations and armed conflictpresent significant difficulties for political stability and food security in fragile states.With increased use of mass claims programs by the international community andgovernments in order to attend to the problem, attention is focusing on what works.While organizing mass claims programs is challenging, the real difficulty is derivingremedies that are realistic, effective, implementable, and that fit the wide variety of circumstances that people, communities and nations find themselves.
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Post-conflict land governance reform in the African Great Lakes region. Part II - Reshuffling land ownership for development

Journal Articles & Books
Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2016
Burundi, South Sudan, Uganda
Land Conflicts
continuum in land rights
land conflicts
land governance
land ownership
land reform
land tenure
land tenure systems
tenure security
After conflict, governments and donors often feel a need for up-scaling and modernizing land use. There is an ambition to achieve economic recovery and contribute to food security through stimulating large-scale investment in land. Our research in Uganda, Burundi and South Sudan suggests that policymakers should be extremely careful when promoting large-scale land acquisitions, both foreign and national. Especially in the difficult transition from war to peace, large-scale appropriation of land risks becoming a threat to tenure security and the recovery of rural livelihoods.
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Post-conflict land governance reform in the African Great Lakes region. Part III - Securing tenure of smallholder peasants

Journal Articles & Books
Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2016
Burundi, South Sudan, Uganda
Land Conflicts
continuum in land rights
land conflicts
land governance
land reform
land rights
land tenure
land tenure systems
In post-conflict settings, securing tenure of local smallholders is considered of major importance to reduce and prevent local land disputes, to contribute to the recovery of rural livelihoods, and to improve agricultural production. Registration and other ways of formalizing land ownership are generally believed to significantly enhance local tenure security and rural development.