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   Managing Forest Ecosystem Services for Hydropower Production

   Rapports et recherches

   Articles et Livres

   juillet, 2016

   Inde, Asie méridionale

   In many countries, hydropower development is rapidly becoming a focus of green growth policies. This represents a significant opportunity for ecosystem services-based land management that integrates environmental and development goals to benefit the hydropower sector and support economic growth. In this study, we present an approach for targeting ecosystem-provision investment in hydropower catchments coupled with hydrologic modeling to quantify the benefits of soil and water conservation activities.

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   Smallholders’ Land Access in Sub-Saharan Africa

   A New Landscape?

   Rapports et recherches

   Articles et Livres

   octobre, 2016

   Nigéria, Ouganda, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Éthiopie, Niger, Malawi, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique

   développement rural

   droit foncier

   tenure foncière

   expropriation

   While scholars long recognized the importance of land markets as a key driver of rural non-farm development and transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent of their operation and the nature of participants remains limited. We use household data from 6 countries to show that there is great potential for such markets to increase productivity and equalize factor ratios. While rental markets transfer land to land-poor and labor-rich producers, their operation and thus impact may be constrained by policy restrictions.

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   How Much of the Labor in African Agriculture Is Provided by Women?

   Rapports et recherches

   Articles et Livres

   octobre, 2016

   Nigéria, Ouganda, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Éthiopie, Niger, Malawi, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique

   agriculture

   The contribution of women to labor in African agriculture is regularly quoted in the range of 60–80%. Using individual, plot-level labor input data from nationally representative household surveys across six Sub-Saharan African countries, this study estimates the average female labor share in crop production at 40%. It is slightly above 50% in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda, and substantially lower in Nigeria (37%), Ethiopia (29%), and Niger (24%).

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   Quantifying Spillover Effects from Large Land-based Investment

   The Case of Mozambique

   Rapports et recherches

   Articles et Livres

   juillet, 2016

   Mozambique, Afrique, Afrique sub-saharienne

   Almost a decade after a spike in land demand following the 2007–08 commodity boom, evidence on impacts of this phenomenon remains limited and mostly case study based. We show that information on location and start data of large farms, combined with existing smallholder farm surveys, allows to complement this with a difference-in-difference approach to systematically assess spillovers from large farm establishment.