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Evaluating the lifestyle impact of China’s rural housing land consolidation with locational big data: A study of Chengdu

Land Use Policy Volume 96

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2020
China, Russia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land consolidation
land use
research
Housing land consolidation and relocation has been widely implemented in rural China as a policy tool to reduce the area of built-up land, reclaim agricultural land, and redistribute the use of land. Despite of the large scale of implementation, the impact of this policy on the daily life of rural people is not sufficiently evaluated. Our work aims to fill in this gap by examining the daily activity pattern of rural residents in consolidated and unconsolidated villages through mobile phone locational data, using the Chengdu city-region as the case.
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Expanding commodity frontiers and the emergence of customary land markets: A case study of tree-crop farming in Venda, South Africa

Land Use Policy Volume 101

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Southern Africa, South Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
land markets
land rights
research
smallholders
Contemporary discourses on customary land tenure in Africa, and South Africa in particular, have emphasized the socially embedded and flexible nature of customary land rights, recognising these as inherently more ‘pro-poor’ than individual titling. Based on in-depth interviews and participant observations in Venda, a former homeland in South Africa, this paper explores how in the context of expanding commodity frontiers, customary land markets have emerged, leading to de facto privatisation of customary land.
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Exploring land use/land cover changes, drivers and their implications in contrasting agro-ecological environments of Ethiopia

Land Use Policy Volume 87

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2019
Ethiopia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
geographical information systems
land cover
land cover change
land use
research
This study examined the trends, driving factors, and implications of land use/land cover (LULC) dynamics over the past 35 years (1982–2017) in three watersheds of the drought-prone areas that represent different agro-ecologies of Upper Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia: Guder (highland), Aba Gerima (midland), and Debatie (lowland). The changes in LULC were analyzed by integrating field observations, remote-sensing data (aerial photographs [1: 50,000 scale] and very high resolution [0.5–3.2 m] satellite images), and geographic information systems.
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Exploring the socioeconomic and ecological consequences of cash crop cultivation for policy implications

Land Use Policy Volume 76

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2018
China, Russia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
land use change
research
Cash crops have kept expanding at an accelerating rate across the globe during the last decades. It therefore requires elaborate efforts to examine the socioeconomic and ecological consequences of cash crop cultivation. With a case of the Hangzhou region in subtropical China, this paper investigated the dynamic patterns of four cash crop types (tea, fruit, mulberry and nursery) at town level by using aerial photos; and then quantified the subsequent socioeconomic and ecological consequences using spatial regression.
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Exploring watershed conservation and water governance along Pangani River Basin, Tanzania

Land Use Policy Volume 48

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2015
Tanzania
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land use
research
sustainable land management
water
Water scarcity is among the contemporary problems of our time across the globe. The problem is worsened by policy failures to enforce water governance and watershed conservation. Consequently, it has curtailed the capacity of watersheds to release hydrological services, water in particular. We carried out this study to explore approaches for watershed conservation and investigate water governance challenges in Pangani River Basin, Tanzania. We collected data by using structured questionnaires and meetings with different actors in the study area.
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Farm size and smallholders’ use of intercropping in Northwest China

Land Use Policy Volume 99

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2020
China
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
research
smallholders
Intercropping, i.e. the cultivation of crop species mixtures, can potentially reduce pressure on land resources by generating higher yields through exploitation of complementarities between crop species. Although intercropping is practiced on a non-negligible proportion of China’s arable land, little is known about the factors that influence farmers’ decisions to use intercropping. In this study we develop a theoretical framework that distinguishes exogenous factors from endogenous factors in farmers’ activity choices in general and the use of intercropping in particular.
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Farmer participation in agri-environmental schemes: Regionalisation and the role of bridging social capital

Land Use Policy Volume 60

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
Belgium, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land use
research
European agri-environmental schemes are being criticised for reinforcing rather than negating an opposition between agricultural production and environmental production, and for assuming instead of securing a public willingness to pay for agri-environmental change. This paper explores if a regionalisation of agri-environmental governance may contribute to overcome these criticisms. The paper empirically explores three regionalised agri-environmental schemes from Flanders, Belgium, with the use of 40 qualitative interviews with farmers and other relevant stakeholders.
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Farmers’ perception of effective drought policy implementation: A case study of 2009–2010 drought in Yunnan province, China

Land Use Policy Volume 67

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2017
China, Russia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farmers
land use
research
Using a qualitative social research method at the local administrative level, this paper provides insight into the policy process in China and farmers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of policies implemented to deal with drought. Two villages in rural South-West Yunnan were purposefully selected for the study. The research started with the general assumption that China has a strong top-down hierarchal approach to policy processes and that funding dispersal is prioritised by the central government.
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Farming systems and Conservation Agriculture: Technology, structures and agency in Malawi

Land Use Policy Volume 95

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
climate change
farming systems
land use
research
Conservation Agriculture (CA) is advocated as an agricultural innovation that will improve smallholder famer resilience to future climate change. Under the conditions presented by the El Niño event of 2015/16, the implementation of CA was examined in southern Malawi at household, district and national institutional levels. Agricultural system constraints experienced by farming households are identified, and in response the technologies, structures and agency associated with CA are evaluated.
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Feeding and housing the urban population: Environmental impacts at the peri-urban interface under different land-use scenarios

Land Use Policy Volume 48

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2015
Global
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
environment
land use
research
urban population
urbanization
The environmental consequences of the decision to urbanise and displace peri-urban (PU) food production are not typically evaluated within a comprehensive, cross-sectoral approach. Using a novel application of life cycle assessment (LCA) within exploratory scenarios, a method for integrating housing and food production land uses in PU regions is proposed, based on relative environmental impacts.