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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2015
    Western Asia, Iraq

    This final report synthesizes the results of the Iraq Salinity Project, a research partnership between five Iraqi ministries and national agencies and an international team of researchers, led by ICARDA, specializing in land and water management, crop improvement and plant breeding, geoinformatics, and socioeconomics.

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2015
    Global

    Over the past 15 years, tens of millions of hectares of land have been acquired by large investors in developing countries. The Land Matrix documented 1,037 transnational land deals covering 37,842,371 hectares during this period, while many more deals remain undocumented.1 This global land rush is causing widespread forced evictions and denial of access to key land and natural resources for millions of women, small- scale food producers, pastoralists, gatherers, forest dwellers, fisherfolk, and tribal and indigenous peoples.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2015
    Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

    An Assessment of the Economics of Land Degradation for Improved Land Management in Central Asia
    Inception and Training Workshop

    23 - 25 February 2015
    Antalya, Turkey

  4. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2015
    Western Africa, Mali

    The Kelka forest in the Mopti region of Mali is important for the provision of ecosystem services like carbon sequestration and maintenance of the hydrological cycle. The Kelka forest area occupies more than 300, 000 hectares with 15
    villages within and around its boundaries. The forest resources and soil fertility of the forest are in continuous decline due to a combination of climatic and human induced factors. For example, the availability of firewood has halved

  5. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2015
    Global

    Gedaref State was previously known as the
    food basket of Sudan. Over several decades
    unsustainable agricultural practices that
    combined near-monocropping with low nutrient
    replenishment have led to significant degradation
    of soils, which are no longer able to sustain farmer
    livelihoods. This study found that adopting
    an integrated sustainable land use and forest
    restoration scenario could reverse the current
    land degradation trend. The integration of Acacia
    senegal with sorghum, Sudan’s primary staple

  6. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    June, 2015
    Italy

    This essay suggests a re-elaboration of the Marketing Comparison Approach in order to set the value of properties subject to transformation. The essay focuses on identifying the property valuation following a certain transformation and is aimed at determining the land value by means of the extraction method.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2015
    Cambodia

    In 2008, three sugar companies were awarded nearly 20,000 hectares of Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) in Oddar Meanchey province.


    The new research finds that associated land grabbing totaling more than 17,000 hectares has affected more than 2,000 families. Of these, 214 families were forcibly evicted.


    Meanwhile, at least 3,000 hectares of the misappropriated land has been used for logging rather than sugar plantations, according to the report, ‘Cambodia: The Bitter Taste of Sugar’, commissioned by ActionAid and Oxfam GB.

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