The article discusses whether deforestation in the Amazonian region should be considered a typical case of market failure and computes the opportunity cost of economic activities that promote deforestation relative to uses that keep the forest intact. For environmental resources threatened by Amazon deforestation, forms of productive land use (“opportunity” uses) are considered in terms of the net benefit values of primary land-based activities.

China’s quest for natural resources in Latin America / Felipe Freitas da Rocha and Ricardo Bielschowsky .-- Corporate governance and international bond issues by Latin American corporations / Georgina Núñez Reyes, Ignacio Perrotini Hernández and Francisco López-Herrera .-- The spillover effect of Chinese growth on South America: an analysis from international trade / Gercione Dionizio Silva, Marília Fernandes Maciel Gomes and Evandro Camargos Teixeira .-- Territorial inequality, equalization transfers and asymmetric sharing of non-renewable natural resources in Latin America / Giorgio Brosi

We study label framing effects in linear public goods games. By accounting for heterogeneous frame connotation, we can identify individual framing effects. We test for such effects in a field experiment on irrigation management in India. Using membership of the water users association as a proxy for frame connotation, we find a differential impact on contributions in the game. Members contribute relatively more under the irrigation frame than non-members as compared to an alternative, neutral, frame.

The research provides a holistic overview of the key changes that affected Northern Chin society from pre-colonial times up to now in villages close to Hakha town where State penetration was stronger than in more remote

areas. The study sheds light on the overlapping and evolving statutory and customary land systems and on the issues faced by contemporary Chin communities as they seek to govern land and natural resources.

Date: 2018

Source: Foncier & Développement

Cette note de synthèse reprend les présentations et les débats qui ont nourri l’atelier sur les trajectoires de politiques foncières en Afrique de l’Ouest et à Madagascar, organisé du 15 au 19 janvier 2018 à Saint-Louis du Sénégal, à l’initiative du Comité technique « Foncier & développement » de la Coopération française (CTFD).

Date: 2018

Source: Foncier & Développement

Produit par la plateforme des organisations de la société civile oeuvrant dans le foncier à Madagascar et en collaboration avec l’International Land Coalition, ce document présente une synthèse des études sur le système foncier dans de nombreux pays.

Date: 13 mai 2019

Source: Foncier & Développement

Par: Alexis Gonin (Université Paris Nanterre)

Dernière édition des Cahiers du Pôle Foncier : Concurrences spatiales, libre accès et insécurité foncière des éleveurs (sud-ouest du Burkina Faso)

In almost every country of the world, forest landscape restoration (FLR), which aims for the long-term conservation and sustainable use of forests, can help to reduce land-based emissions. In light of the fact that FLR remains heavily underutilized in practice, this brief elaborates concrete options for ambitious climate and forest protection through FLR that are not only effective and efficient, but also politically desirable and implementable.

Date: 2018

Source: IPAR

Ce rapport s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une étude réalisée par l’Initiative prospective agricole et rurale (IPAR) avec le soutien de la FAO. Les termes de référence de l’étude s’articulent autour des nouveaux mécanismes financiers liés au passage de la vulgarisation à l’appui conseil au Sénégal.

Acest articol este consacrat domeniului relațiilor funciare, în special celor agricole
și problemelor legate de reglementarea eficientă a lor în condițiile actuale ale dezvoltării societății. Din totalitatea problemelor nesoluționate în agricultura Republicii Moldova la etapa actuală autorul subliniază necesitatea obiectivă a dezvoltării bazelor metodologice a relațiilor funciare agrare, în scopul administrării durabile a resurselor funciare de către forme organizatorico-juridice, bazate pe diferite tipuri de proprietate.

Mining is an important source of revenue for many developing countries, however, the social, environmental and economic impacts of mining are often poorly monitored. The recent transition of a gold mine in Western Tanzania—from large-scale gold mine under private, multinational ownership, to medium-scale public and national owned mine with limited life length offers a prime opportunity to understand the implications of changes in ownership and scale on the local economy and community well-being.

Credibility is the measure of how institutions are perceived as a result of autonomous endogenous patterns of interaction and power differences. It is not the tenure security in the sense of neo-classical economics that matters but the perceived security and whether developers have the assurance to retain the fruits of their investment. What matters in performance of institutions is not their form but their functions as it is determined temporally and spatially in terms of economic efficiency, stability and growth.