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A Discounted Cash Flow and Capital Budgeting Analysis of Silvopastoral Systems in the Amazonas Region of Peru

Volume 9 Issue 10

Peer-reviewed publication
October, 2020
Peru
land
research
Silvopasture is a type of agroforestry that could deliver ecosystem services and support local livelihoods by integrating trees into pasture-based livestock systems. This study modeled the financial returns from silvopastures, planted forests, and conventional cattle-pasture systems in Amazonas, Peru using capital budgeting techniques. Forests had a lower land expectation value (USD 845 per hectare) than conventional cattle systems (USD 1275 per hectare) at a 4% discount rate.
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A local perspective on drivers and measures to slow deforestation in the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Colombia

Land Use Policy Volume 77

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2018
Colombia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
environment
land use
research
sustainable land management
Colombia’s Andean-Amazonian foothills are among the most pressing deforestation hotspots in the country. Yet, the relationships and dependencies of underlying deforestation drivers are not well understood. For an adequate territorial reorganization in the post-conflict era that is sensitive to local context, a targeted analysis of the present situation at the local level is required. This study investigates direct and indirect deforestation drivers, relationships among these and potential measures to lower deforestation post-conflict.
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A Model for Estimating the Vegetation Cover in the High-Altitude Wetlands of the Andes (HAWA)

Volume 8 Issue 1

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2019
Chile
land
research
The natural salt meadows of Tilopozo in the hyperarid, Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which are located at approximately 2800 m above sea level, are under pressure from industrial activity, and cultivation and grazing by local communities. In this research, the land surface covered by salt meadow vegetation was estimated from normalized difference vegetation indices (NDVI) derived from Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM), Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+) and Operational Land Imager (OLI) data from 1985 to 2016.
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A reforma agrária assistida pelo mercado do Banco Mundial na África do Sul e no Brasil (1994-2002)

Journal Articles & Books
Brazil, Africa
agrarian reform
land use
land administration
agriculture
O artigo analisa a “reforma agrária assistida pelo mercado” (RAAM) do Banco Mundial, abordando a sua racionalidade, a agenda política da qual fez parte e os resultados da sua implantação na África do Sul e no Brasil. Após identificá-la ao processo mais amplo de atualização da agenda neoliberal articulado em meados dos anos 1990, o artigo discute o programa agrário do Banco e detalha os seus componentes, entre os quais a RAAM.
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A Trend Analysis of Leaf Area Index and Land Surface Temperature and Their Relationship from Global to Local Scale

Volume 9 Issue 10

Peer-reviewed publication
October, 2020
British Indian Ocean Territory, Central African Republic, Central America, South America, Northern America, United States of America, China, India, Europe, Russia, Australia, Global
scale
Although the way in which vegetation phenology mediates the feedback of vegetation to climate systems is now well understood, the magnitude of these changes is still unknown. A thorough understanding of how the recent shift in phenology may impact on, for example, land surface temperature (LST) is important. To address this knowledge gap, it is important to quantify these impacts and identify patterns from the global to the regional scale.
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Acceso a la tierra en el Ecuador a partir de sus políticas públicas más recientes

A partir de sus políticas públicas más recientes

Reports & Research
April, 2021
Latin America and the Caribbean, Ecuador
Land & Gender
Land Degradation & Tenure
land governance
land policies
land distribution
land degradation
land access
Considerando un proceso de más de cinco siglos de desagregación y consolidación de la desigualdad, el presente documento busca centrar su análisis en las más recientes políticas públicas sobre tierra: ¿qué tipo de política?, ¿cuáles fueron sus resultados?, ¿qué impacto tuvo sobre la estructura encontrada?, ¿qué deja?, ¿qué resulta relevante?
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Accumulation of water rights in Peru

Journal Articles & Books
Peer-reviewed publication
Peru, Central America, South America
land rights
water rights
water management
land governance
In Latin America, water governance is facing the problem of rising demand for water resources, increased hydrological variability in a context of climate change, proliferating contamination and thus —in general— increasing scarcity of water in terms of quantity, quality, and opportunity. This creates competition and conflicts among stakeholders. The issue coincides with the urgent international problem of concentration of land, which is heavily intertwined with the concentration of water in the hands of the few.
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Acuerdos y confrontaciones: la política agraria peronista en el marco del Pacto Social

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2016
Argentina
land policies
agrarian reform
land tenure
El propósito es el análisis de la política agraria del peronismo, en un particular contexto marcado por las grandes modificaciones en el funcionamiento del capitalismo -que se exhiben en un ámbito dominado por la situación de crisis generalizada- y donde el capital financiero cumple un rol fundamental en los procesos económicos y políticos: los comienzos de la década de 1970. Se trata de un período histórico complejo en el que es posible advertir contradicciones y variaciones políticas y socio económicas que se suceden a un ritmo impetuoso y apremiante.
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Aerial river management by smart cross-border reforestation

Land Use Policy Volume 84

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2019
Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Portugal, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, Venezuela
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forest management plans
forestry
land use
research
In the face of increasing socio-economic and climatic pressures in growing cities, it is rational for managers to consider multiple approaches for securing water availability. One often disregarded option is the promotion of reforestation in source regions supplying important quantities of atmospheric moisture transported over long distances through aerial rivers, affecting water resources of a city via precipitation and runoff (‘smart reforestation’). Here we present a case demonstrating smart reforestation’s potential as a water management option.
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Agribusiness Facing Its Limits: The Re-Design of Neoliberalization Strategies in the Exporting Agriculture Sector in Chile

Volume 9 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2020
Chile
agriculture
The core neoliberal strategy of Chilean agrarian politics has lasted now for more than 30 years. Despite minor reforms, its fundamental pillars remain in place. While members of the agribusiness sector consider this strategy to be a role-model for food production leading to explosive economic growth, the last decade exposed its socio-ecological limits, such as declining water availability and increased conflicts over land.