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Beyond informality: ‘Nimble peri-urban land transactions’ - how migrants on the margins trade, access and hold land for settlement
How do migrants on the margins trade, access, and hold land for settlement? This ethnographic inquiry based on a case study of Malawian migrants in...
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Urban community gardens in Cape Town, South Africa: navigating land access and land tenure security
Land tenure security continues to pose a significant challenge to the sustainability of urban community gardens in global South cities. However, a...
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Large-scale land acquisition and farmland access nexus: evidence from agricultural households in northern Ghana
In the wake of 2007–08 food and oil price hikes, and the subsequent financial crises, Africa saw an upsurge in large-scale land acquisition (LSLA)....
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The Village, the Elephant, and the State: Land Access and Vulnerability in Rural Botswana
Throughout the world, people resettle to reduce vulnerability to potentially dangerous wildlife, including elephants. In turn, they may become...
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Gender analysis of access and control of resources and livelihoods in pastoral livelihood systems: the case of Kurikuri Community land in Laikipia County, Kenya
The differentiation of gender roles is highly prevalent in pastoral societies and often results in women and men having unequal access and control...
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Informal land leasing and social relations: Insights from Zimbabwe’s small scale farms
This article examines the role of social relations in enabling informal land leasing in Zimbabwe's small scale (A1 villagised) settlements after the...
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Land as Common Property: The Fit of Land Governance with Ostrom’s Design Principles
Ostrom’s design principles have been widely recognized in sustaining commons governance. However, studies focusing on the assessment of the design...
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Making a case for rights of public access in Ireland: a multifunctional approach
The availability of waymarked trails in Ireland has been a remarkable success story for advocates of outdoor recreation. Yet, there is little legal...
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Temporal evolution of land use-land cover changes, Focusing on present mariculture sites along the Moheshkhali Island, Bangladesh
The current study examines the land use and land cover analysis of Moheshkhali Island, along with the geographical alterations to the land and their...
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Can i own land in my matrimonial home? A gender analysis of access to and ownership of agricultural land in Northern Ghana, Ghana
Land is a key player in wealth creation, power, social status and a primary source of agriculture globally. Due to the importance of land to ‘man’,...
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Modeling land use/land cover transformations in Mahanadi River basin in Chhattisgarh, India: trends and future projections
The prediction of land use and land cover (LULC) patterns is essential for land use planning, natural resources management, and climate change...
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Power and conviction dynamics on land and linked natural resources: explorative insights from the greater south region of Cameroon
Communities in several parts of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) depend on natural resources for their sustenance. While growing pressure on such resources...
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Young Farmers’ Access to Land: Gendered Pathways into and Out of Farming in Nigara and Langkap (West Manggarai, Indonesia)
This chapter describes rural young men and women’s pathways out of and (back) into farming in two villages in West Manggarai district, Flores island,...
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Evaluating Landsat-8, Landsat-9 and Sentinel-2 imageries in land use and land cover (LULC) classification in a heterogeneous urban area
Land use and land cover (LULC) map** is important for sustainable land management and has received great attention from researchers over the years....
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Geospatially-Based Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics Detection, Central Ethiopian Rift Valley
Land use and land cover (LULC) is a major concern of global environmental change, particularly the case, in develo** countries. In the Central...
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Dynamics of land use and land cover change in peri urban area of Burdwan city, India: a remote sensing and GIS based approach
Peri-urban area around a city is a dynamic zone that undergoes considerable changes over time in terms of its functional land use. Analogous to other...
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Indigeneity, land and labour in Paraguay
This article is focused on the politics of indigeneity, which is an increasingly important concept and a central area of dispute in a globalised...
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Nexus of village land use planning, village land forest reserve and REDD+ in Tanzania: a synthesis of concepts
Land use planning (LUP) and village land forest reserve (VLFR) have been integral to the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation...
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Customary Land Certification, Governance and Natural Resource Use in Zambia: A Social Learning Approach
This study reports on the outcomes of customary land certification, which comprised formalisation of customary land rights in three chiefdoms in...
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Water for all: Exploring determinants of safe water access in develo** regions
Sustainable development goals (SDGs) include ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation. Although countries have...
