Rubber prices in northern Laos have fallen significantly over the last few years, eroding much of the initial enthusiasm of both farmers and government officials about rubber providing a way out of poverty for poor upland farmers. This thematic study examines responses to this price drop by Lao rubber growers and state institutions in northern Laos. It also examines the reasons that prices are what they are, given that price volatility was identified as a risk during the mid-2000s, and that in at least some cases, steps were taken to protect contract farmers from falling prices.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2017Laos
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Vol 3, No 2: May 2020
Peer-reviewed publicationMay, 2020EthiopiaDifferent government institutions in Ethiopia working on land related issues tackle and manage data and information independently, while their activities and mandates are often related or even overlapping. Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) deals with small holder rural land and until recently the Ethiopian Horticulture and Agricultural Investment Authority (EHAIA) was dealing with commercial agricultural land. Those institutions have not been able to share information each other’s data to make informed decisions.
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Case study, Mekong Region Land Governance
Reports & ResearchNovember, 2020China, MyanmarIn the last decade, Myanmar’s Kachin State has seen a boom in tissue-culture banana plantations driven by cross-border Chinese investors. This Case Study compiles field research and publicly available knowledge about the scale of the production and its economic, social and environmental consequences. The study provides a detailed snapshot of the investment model and key actors in Kachin State, the methods of land access, landscape outcomes, and experiences of plantation workers.
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Vol 1, No 3: December 2018
Peer-reviewed publicationDecember, 2018AfricaDespite a comprehensive regulatory framework on land matters, compulsory land acquisition in Tanzania has been associated with complaints and delays in compensation payments an indication that good governance principles might not be under serious consideration.
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Vol 2, No 3: September 2019
Peer-reviewed publicationSeptember, 2019GhanaGlobal concerns about fossil fuel prices and climate change have directed focus on prospects of biofuels. In Ghana, large-scale biofuel development has been entangled with several problems including disputes over land use and a combination of challenges such as low yield performance of Jatropha, food versus oilseed prices and financial viability issues. Furthermore, the exercised land acquisition processes lacked transparency and could not protect the rights of vulnerable local people. One particular challenge is the withdrawal of companies without returning the land to the land owners.
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Vol 3, No 3: September 2020
Peer-reviewed publicationSeptember, 2020AfricaIssues surrounding customary land governance reforms remain at the forefront of policy reforms in many African countries because of concern over discriminatory rules of access, exchange, and inheritance, corruption, elite capture, and illegal land occupations, (Arko Adjei, 2009). The shortcomings in customary land governance extend to the unfettered authority of customary land trustees, usually, traditional leaders (chiefs and family heads) who retain autonomous control over land as defined by customary norms and practices.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesJanuary, 2019Global
This guide examines the role and responsibilities of private sector lawyers when advising their clients on agricultural investments. It discusses how lawyers can prevent and/or address and mitigate adverse human rights impacts on holders of legitimate tenure rights when advising on or conducting their due diligence and risk assessment processes on behalf of their clients. It provides a number of key recommendations, including on how to align legal advice with the VGGT and CFS-RAI.
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Vol 1, No 2: September 2018, Special Issue on Youth and Land Governance
Peer-reviewed publicationSeptember, 2018AfricaThis paper aims to explore implications of large-scale land investment for local citizenship, with a particular focus on customs and mobility. The concept of local citizenship is a neglected aspect of land investment debates. We argue that the use of the concept helps us to identify how large-scale land investments work to invoke the hegemonic and customary power of indigenes and undermine local citizenship identity of migrants.
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Vol 1, No 3: December 2018
Peer-reviewed publicationDecember, 2018RwandaRwanda has undertaken a land registration and titling program since 2008 with a registration of 10.3 million land parcels in 2013. The aim of this paper is to investigate the early effects of the program on tenure security and agricultural investments since few studies have been carried out in this research area. The study was undertaken in Musanze district in Northern Rwanda, with specific focus on Gataraga sector and it draws on a mix of qualitative and quantitative research methods. The findings indicate that the program led to reduced land conflicts and improved tenure security.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksArgentina
La información utilizada proviene de censos realizados por el Plan de Estudios Fitoecológicos del Chaco Argentino (EFECHA), iniciado en 1965 en convenio entre el Centro de Estudios Fitoecológicos de Montpellier, del Centro Nacional de Investigación Científica (CNRS) de Francia y la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la UBA, y concluido por el INTA en 1975. Las autoridades convocantes fueron el Dr. Rolando García, decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la UBA, el director del INTA ingeniero agrónomo Ubaldo García, y el Dr.
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