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commons

The term commons is most frequently used to refer to those natural resources that are held in common by a community.

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Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
January 2017
Comoros
Africa
Eastern Africa

Following a chaotic political decolonization, from 1975 to 2000, the Comoros failed to sustain the extension of private land ownership pursued since the beginning of the twentieth century and to implement land reform prepared with the assistance of the FAO and the UNDP but abandoned after the assassination of the President of the Republic in 1989.

Conference Papers & Reports
January 2017
Global

The food crises of 2007-2008, the cause of the “hunger riots” in several so-called developing countries, did not reveal a food shortage but problems accessing the food. These problems were the result of the development of an agricultural model, capitalist operation with workers, that does not meet the food-related needs of individuals with no or little money.

Conference Papers & Reports
January 2017
Global

Les crises alimentaires de 2007-2008, causes d’ « émeutes de la faim » dans plusieurs pays dits en voie de développement, ont été révélatrices, non d’une pénurie alimentaire, mais de problèmes d’accès à la nourriture.

Conference Papers & Reports
January 2017
Global

Las crisis alimentarías de 2007-2008, causa de los “disturbios del hambre” en los denominados países en vías de desarrollo, fueron reveladores, no de la escasez de alimentos, sino del problema de acceso a los alimentos.

Videos
January 2017
Global

Millions of people worldwide depend on natural resources such as land, fisheries and forests that are used collectively as commons. Commons are essential to culture, identity and well-being. As a source of food and income, they are an important safety-net, especially for the most marginalized and vulnerable people.

Reports & Research
December 2016
Norway

The paper is part of a joint presentation with Marius Grønning at the 5th International and Interdisciplinary Symposium of the European Academy of Land Use and Development (EALD) held in Oslo 3-5 September 2015.

Journal Articles & Books
November 2016
Peru

Forests at the tropical Valley of the Apurimac and Ene rivers (VRAE), the second coca-growing region of Peru, are public common resources and nevertheless privately managed mainly by coca farmers, without effective State control of such use.

June 2016
India

As India continues to urbanize and move
towards a less agricultural- and more industry-based
economy, land demands will continue to grow. Its urban
population is expected to increase by more than 200 million
by 2030, requiring 4 to 8 million hectares of land for

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