Tree-Based Carbon Storage in Developing Countries: Neglect of the Social Sciences Jon D. Unruha a Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresoctobre, 2010Global
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresjanvier, 2010Madagascar
Environmental change and adaptation
in degraded agro-ecosystems: the case
of highland Madagascar
Jon Unruh*, Bill McConnell** and Joe Rodman†
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Research and Analysis from Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Articles et Livresjanvier, 2010CamerounDrawing from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Viet Nam, and the Amazon forests of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, this book explores the relationship between gender and land, revealing the workings of global capital and of people’s responses to it.
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Primitive accumulation and the arrival of large-scale economic land concessions in Laos
Articles et Livresjanvier, 2011LaosABSTRACT: In recent years the government of Laos has provided many foreign investors with large-scale economic land concessions to develop plantations. These concessions have resulted in significant alterations of landscapes and ecological processes, greatly reduced local access to resources through enclosing common areas, and have ultimately led to massive changes in the livelihoods of large numbers of mainly indigenous peoples living near these concessions.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresjanvier, 2010Kenya
In land administration (LA), the right to exercising property/ownership rights on land is based on cadastral processes of adjudication, survey and rights registration. Private ownership rights are now being taken up in pastoral areas, where they must contend with pastoralists’ land rights. Pastoral land use
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresjanvier, 2010Indonésie
In this article, I address whether activities meant to improve land tenure security may havesupported or undermined peace-building during the postwar stabilization and transitionperiod of 2005–2008. In 2005, the population of Aceh began recovery from both a 29-yearseparatist war and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. Property and tenure systems wereseverely damaged by both the war and tsunami.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresjanvier, 2010Global
The young man was scared. The city government had instructed him to count the shacks in the settlement. He arrived smartly dressed carrying a briefcase and clipboard with pen in hand and a list of the shacks. His job was to find any new shacks without the official number painted on the door. But he immediately ran into problems. The local residents confronted him, asking what he was doing. Soon a small crowd had gathered. They took him into the community hall, where a meeting was under way. He explained that the city had sent him, but the local people were suspicious.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2010Cambodge
The paper aims to identify the rationality of peasant communities and their contribution to rural development in Kampong Thom province. To do so; an interdisciplinary analytical framework addresses the dynamics of land use and land tenure; the strategies of labor force allocation as well as the determinants of land and labor agricultural productivities amongst peasant communities. It rests on details field surveys in two communes located in very distinct agro-ecological settings of Kampong Thom province.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2010Cambodge
On 1st of July 2009, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen signed the “Declaration of the Royal Government on Land Policy”. According to this document emphasis should be given to State reform, land law, and environmental law with their impacts on the use of non-renewable resources (land, water, and soil). The implementation of the Cambodian social land policy should start with the need to ensure access to land and to sustain rural development and environment for a modern, prosperous Cambodia.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresjanvier, 2011Afrique
Although the commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) plants in Africa has been relatively modest until now, a number of research and development projects in this field are already operating in several African countries. These involve breeding drought-tolerant, pest-resistant or nutrient-enriched maize, or cassava varieties with greater disease and pest resistance.
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