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   Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs.The Economic Case For Securing Indigenous Land Rights in the Amazon

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2016

   Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Indigenous Peoples

   land rights

   A large number of countries recognize the role of forests in carbon sequestration and committed in their NDCs to protect forests, reduce deforestation rates, and restore forestlands. Few NDCs, however, make any specific commitments to how their forests will be protected or restored on degraded land. It is still unclear if governments will protect forests by expanding the protected estate, improving the management of existing national parks, helping communities safeguard the forests on their lands, or by taking other measures.
   

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   Global Land Outlook: Latin America and the Caribbean Thematic Report: Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change Adaptation

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2019

   Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Central America, Guatemala, Mexico, South America, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru

   Forest Landscape Restoration

   Forest Tenure

   Land Degradation & Tenure

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   land degradation

   deforestation

   land use

   sustainable land management

   The extensive arable land and great biodiversity present in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have the potential to ensure sustenance and a good quality of life for its more than 600 million inhabitants. LAC has experienced important changes in land use. When the Europeans arrived in the 15th century, the forest cover of LAC accounted for approximately 75 per cent of the territory.

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   Land rental markets in Brazil: A missed opportunity

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2014

   Brazil

   Land & Investments

   land markets

   Brazil’s decisions around land use are some of the most important in the world. With a growing agricultural sector and abundant natural resources valuable for their biodiversity, fresh water, and carbon stock, Brazil’s challenge is to use available land as efficiently as possible to promote economic growth, while simultaneously protecting important conservation areas. Land markets are a vital part of the efficient land use picture.

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   Landscapes, at your service: Applications of the Restoration Opportunities Optimization Tool (ROOT).

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2018

   Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Myanmar, Malawi

   Forest Landscape Restoration

   Land & Gender

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   land restoration

   women

   The Restoration Opportunities Optimization Tool (ROOT) was developed out of a need to more efficiently and effectively communicate the importance of ecosystem services to decision makers.

   IUCN’s collective experience working to increase ecological productivity and improve human well-being through forest landscape restoration (FLR) demonstrated that although stakeholders were interested in generating ecosystem services from proposed restoration activities, the many services and their interactions with each other were often too complicated to communicate clearly.

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   Legal Instruments to implement the objective “Land Degradation Neutral World” in International Law

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2015

   Brazil, United States of America, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands

   Land Degradation & Tenure

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   land-use planning

   land degradation

   The protection of fertile soils is a precondition for sustainable development. In the final document of the conference of the United Nations on sustainable development in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20 Conference), the international community thus agreed to strive for a “land degradation neutral world”. The legal study by Ecologic Institute, Berlin, firstly scrutinizes some national legislation (Germany/EU, USA and Brazil) in order to identify legal instruments which are suitable for the implementation of the goal of a “land degradation neutral world”.

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   Nature-Based Solutions for agricultural water management and food security

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2018

   Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Southern Africa, South Africa, Nigeria, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, United States of America, Japan, Philippines, Iran, Nepal

   Land & Food Security

   Land Degradation & Tenure

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   food security

   land management

   desertification

   land degradation

   agriculture

   water management

   Agriculture influences and shapes the world’s ecosystems, but not always in a positive way. More than 2.5 billion people are globally involved as stewards of land and water ecosystems that constitute the natural resource base for feeding the current and future world population. Yet, conventional agronomic interventions based on ‘hard’ agricultural engineering compromise various eco-services that are required for sustainable agricultural development.

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   Seizing the Urban Opportunity. How national governments can recover from COVID-19, secure shared prosperity, and tackle the climate crisis through cities.

   Journal Articles & Books

   March, 2021

   Brazil, China, Indonesia, India, Mexico, South Africa, Southern Africa

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Urban Tenure

   land policies

   land use

   urban areas

   urbanization

   Today, the Coalition for Urban Transitions releases a new report ‘Seizing the Urban Opportunity’, which provides insights from six emerging economies on how national governments can recover from COVID-19, tackle the climate crisis and secure shared prosperity through cities. Launching as a call to action for national governments ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, it builds on the Coalition’s flagship 2019 report: Climate Emergency, Urban Opportunity.