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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2003
    Bolivia

    Library has Spanish version: Bolivia : la reforma agraria abandonada; valles y altiplano

  2. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    March, 2017
    Africa, South America, Central America, Asia

    Improving land productivity is essential to meet increasing food and forage demands in hillside and mountain communities. Tens of millions of smallholder terrace farmers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America who earn $1-2 per day do not have access to peer-reviewed knowledge of best agronomic practices, though they have considerable traditional ecological knowledge. Terrace farmers also lack access to affordable farm tools and inputs required to increase crop yields.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2015
    Brazil, South America

    Approximately 20% of novel emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and 50% of emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases have been attributed to land-use change. It is a clear threat to global biodiversity and ecosystem services and a key driver of EIDs. The project investigates the mechanisms underlying disease emergence by assessing the impacts of land-use change, measured as forest fragmentation, on viral diversity and bat host assemblages.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Colombia

    For nearly one year and a half the project research team, coordinated by a member of
    the Area of Historical Memory of the CNRR and with technical assistance from IOM,
    addressed the relationship between internal violence and the agrarian problem in the
    Caribbean coast of Colombia, where for several decades armed conflict, internal forced
    displacement of rural populations and violent land seizures have been an extremely
    strong phenomenon. It also collected multiple memories on the rise and fall of one of

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2014
    Argentina, Paraguay

    Exploration and mapping of alternative land uses suggest ways to foster territorial development pathways that can coexist with a forest cover. As the Pampas and Chaco are becoming one of the most relevant global grain suppliers of South America, the fast expansion of crops over pastures (Pampas) and dry forests (Chaco), ongoing climate changes, and extremely flat topography, make these regions vulnerable to rapid and non-linear hydrological shifts, including long-lasting floods and salinization processes.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2016
    Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, South America, Central America

    The project aims to create actionable policy proposals to make spaces of participation more effective in five countries in Latin America, and to contribute to the needs of existing social movements within their local contexts. Currently the study is mapping specific effects of implementation of participatory reforms on the distribution of power and resources in communities, the pathways through which such effects are produced, the accountability of domestic decision-makers, and impacts on successive iterations of legal reform.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2004
    Brazil, South America, Central America, Northern America

    Effective land policy reform is strewn with complexities and pitfalls. The paper focuses on land tenure, access and use in rural settings, and suggests that Latin America is home to some worrisome trends as well as the rich array of initiatives on land issues. By surveying the literature and examining the issues this study points to areas needing attention from researchers and policymakers.

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