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Accounting for groundwater in future city visions

Land Use Policy Volume 69

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2017
Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America, South Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
research
water
City planners, urban innovators and researchers are increasingly working on ‘future city’ initiatives to investigate the physical, social and political aspects of harmonized urban living. Despite this, sustainability principles and the importance of urban groundwater are lacking in future city visions. Using London as a case study, the importance of groundwater for cities is highlighted and a range of future city interventions may impact on groundwater are reviewed.
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Adoption of improved amaranth varieties and good agricultural practices in East Africa

Land Use Policy Volume 83

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2019
Kenya, Tanzania
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
research
This study quantifies the adoption of improved amaranth varieties in Kenya and Tanzania, and the extent to which these result from international vegetable breeding research conducted by the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) and partners. The study used expert elicitation and a questionnaire survey among vegetable seed producers. Nine expert panels were conducted involving 123 local experts. The results show that improved amaranth varieties were planted on 51% of the planted area in Kenya and 70% in Tanzania.
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An assessment of the implications of alternative scales of communal land tenure formalization in pastoral systems

Land Use Policy Volume 94

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2020
Ethiopia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
assessment
commons
land tenure
land use
research
scale
tenure security
Pastoralism faces diverse challenges, that include, among others, land tenure insecurity, that has necessitated the need to formalize land rights. Some governments have started regularizing rights for privately owned land, but this is complex to implement in pastoral areas where resources are used and managed collectively. Our aim was to assess how the scale of communal land tenure recognition in pastoralist systems may affect tradeoffs among objectives such as tenure security, flexibility, mobility, and reduction of conflicts.
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Analysis of possibilities for linking land registers and other official registers in the Republic of Croatia based on LADM

Land Use Policy Volume 49

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2015
Central African Republic, Croatia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land Administration Domain Model
land register
land use
research
Weak or non-existing linkage of official registers in the Republic of Croatia and the data redundancy as an inevitable outcome of such a state are the causes of various unwanted consequences for the relevant public authorities, as well as for citizens and companies as the end-users of that data. In this paper we present the results of an analysis of the status of the redundancy within the Croatian land administration-related registers.
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Applying Ostrom’s institutional analysis and development framework to soil and water conservation activities in north-western Ethiopia

Land Use Policy Volume 71

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2018
Ethiopia
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
development
land degradation
land use
sustainable land management
water
commons
activities
research
Sustainable land management is of utmost importance in Ethiopia and relies on Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) measures collectively implemented by smallholders through participatory processes. This paper contributes systematic evidence on how SWC strategies are implemented and how participation is operationalized.
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Are land rental markets responding to rising population pressures and land scarcity in sub-Saharan Africa?

Land Use Policy Volume 101

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, Central African Republic
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
land markets
land rent
research
Although still at incipient stages in most areas, agricultural land markets in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are growing rapidly. While the literature on the region’s land markets is expanding, there has been little attention thus far paid to the drivers of land rental prices. We know quite little about whether and how land markets and land contracts respond to meso-scale factors such as spatial variations in land abundance, or to micro-level factors, such as household land endowments.
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Assessing the relationship between land tenure issues and land cover changes around the Arabuko Sokoke Forest in Kenya

Land Use Policy Volume 95

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2020
Kenya, Norway
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
geographical information systems
land cover
land cover change
land investments
land rights
land tenure
land use
research
Land as an essential resource is becoming increasingly scarce due to population growth. In the case of the Kenyan coast, population pressure causes land cover changes in the Arabuko Sokoke Forest, which is an important habitat for endangered species. Forest and bushland have been changed to agricultural land in order to provide livelihood for the rural population who are highly dependent on small-scale farming. Unclear land rights and misbalanced access to land cause uncontrolled expansion and insecure livelihoods.
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Can economic and environmental benefits associated with agricultural intensification be sustained at high population densities? A farm level empirical analysis

Land Use Policy Volume 81

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2019
Kenya
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land use
research
Boserup’s pioneering theory holds that rising population density can be accompanied by sustainable agricultural intensification. But can this positive relationship be sustained indefinitely, or are there conditions under which rising population density can lead to declining agricultural productivity? This study utilizes survey data on farm households in Kenya and soil samples on their main maize plots to assess whether Boserupian agricultural intensification is sustainable at high population densities.
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Can land taxes foster sustainable development? An assessment of fiscal, distributional and implementation issues

Land Use Policy Volume 78

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2018
Indonesia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Rwanda, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
assessment
development
land tax
land use
research
sustainable development
Economists argue that land rent taxation is an ideal form of taxation as it causes no deadweight losses. Nevertheless, pure land rent taxation is rarely applied. This paper revisits the case of land taxation for developing countries. We first provide an up-to-date review on land taxation in development countries, including feasibility and implementation challenges. We then simulate land tax reforms for Rwanda, Peru, Nicaragua and Indonesia, based on household surveys.
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Convergence of Romanian and Europe Union agriculture – evolution and prospective assessment

Land Use Policy Volume 67

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2017
French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, France, Germany
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
agriculture
assessment
research
This paper presents forecasts related to the evolution of agricultural production in Romania, relative to the European Union average and to other countries (France, Germany, and Hungary) while taking into consideration the production potential of Romanian agriculture and opportunities to mobilize certain additional financial sources intended for the growth of intermediate consumption and implicitly of the value of agricultural production.