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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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Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules in the Rural Land Laws of Ethiopia from Access to Justice and Women’s Land Rights’ Lens
Land is a constitutional issue in Ethiopia. Article 40 of the FDRE constitution enshrines governing provisions about rural and urban land....
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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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Emergent neo-customary land tenure and non-indigene smallholders’ access to farmlands in peri-urban Ghana
Land dispossession within the emerging neo-customary land tenure system is not a novel phenomenon in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, the...
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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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Land cover, land use, climate change and food security
The article discusses the intricate relationships between land cover and land use change on the one hand and climate on the other. It explores the...
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Assessing the impact of land use/land cover changes on agricultural land in the Red River Delta, Vietnam
The Red River Delta is a vital economic, political, cultural, and social region in Vietnam, with the highest population density. In recent years,...
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Impact of Historical Land Cover Changes on Land Surface Characteristics over the Indian Region Using Land Information System
The present study has employed a regional Land Surface Model (LSM) to investigate the impact of historical land cover changes on land surface...
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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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Development outcomes of land tenure formalization under customary and statutory land tenure systems in Tanzania: a multinomial endogenous switching regression approach
BackgroundLand Tenure Formalization (LTF) is long advocated as a policy prescription that fosters growth and reduces poverty in develo** countries....
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Determinants of land tenure formalization under customary and statutory land tenure systems in Tanzania
This study employs a multinomial logit model to examine the determinants of Land Tenure Formalization (LTF) under customary and statutory tenure...
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Evaluating the regional risks to food availability and access from land-based climate policies in an integrated assessment model
Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions is necessary to reduce the overall negative climate change impacts on crop yields and agricultural production....
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Land abandonment after land grabbing: exploring the implications for local climate change adaptation and ecological restoration in Ghana
Over the last two decades, the biofuel boom for climate mitigation, energy security, and socio-economic development has triggered large-scale land...
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Multi-decade land cover/land use dynamics and future predictions for Zambia: 2000–2030
Human LULCC is the many driver of environmental changes. Accurate and up-to-date current and predicted information on LULCC is important in land use...
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Land use land cover classification using Sentinel imagery based on deep learning models
For proper planning of urban infrastructures such as road networks, pipelines, and other linear engineering structures, it is necessary to construct...
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Comparing access to US marine and terrestrial protected areas
The United States, like most other nations, has committed to protecting 30% of its land and oceans by 2030—known as 30-by-30—concurrent with societal...
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Land use/land change detection and determination of land surface temperature variation in green belt (Nasirabad) district of Balochistan, Pakistan
The current study determined the changes in Land Use/Land Change (LU/LC) and variation in land surface temperature (LST) in the Green Belt (Nasirabad...
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Land use change in rapidly develo** economies—a case study on land use intensification and land fallowing in Kochi, Kerala, India
The land use/land cover change is a local driver of environmental change having cascading impacts and implications at the global level, and therefore...
