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Reports & Research
Avril 2025
This report’s assessment period, from February 1, 2021 to January 31, 2023, has been marked by Jordan’s recovery from the pandemic and a return to pre-pandemic norms in both the economic and political spheres. On the economic front, GDP grew by 2.2% in 2021 and an additional 2% in 2022. This growth…
Reports & Research
Avril 2025
Land is one of the most valuable assets in Jordan. Rapid population increase, uncontrolled urban sprawl, land degradation and desertification, changes in consumption patterns, and the additional pressure caused by the influx of refugees have strained Jordan’s land resources, including water,…
Journal Articles & Books
Avril 2025
Property ownership is a male domain in Jordan, where women are dependent on men for housing. A patriarchal pattern of power dominates both inheritance and property. While the inheritance rights of women are formally enshrined in the constitution, in Islamic law (Sharia), and in the customary law…
Conference Papers & Reports
Avril 2025
A patriarchal pattern of power dominates both inheritance and property in Jordan. This pattern affects women, but also the youth - which is much less studied. While the inheritance rights of women are formally enshrined in the constitution, in Islamic law (Sharia), female heirs continue to face…
Journal Articles & Books
Avril 2025
This atlas aims to provide the reader with key pointers for a spatial analysis of the social, economic and political dynamics at work in Jordan, an exemplary country of the Middle East complexities.Being a product of seven years of scientific cooperation between Ifpo, the Royal Jordanian Geographic…
Reports & Research
Avril 2025
South Africa's Expropriation Act of 2024, is at the centre of international controversy following lobbying by Afriforum and punitive actions by US President Donald Trump. We analyse the key arguments presented in a small selection of the numerous recent articles curated on knowledgebase.land (KBL…
Reports & Research
Avril 2025
In the past two months Knowledgebase.land (KBL) has carried links to news highlighting recent developments in the region's mining sector across five countries. Our analysis covers recent reporting on extraction activities, economic impacts, and policy changes from Zambia to South Africa.…
Reports & Research
Avril 2025
This report provides a critical update to the 2017 Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) analysis Power and Potential. It evaluates the extent to which national laws, as of 2024, recognize the specific community forest rights of Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local community women. The analysis…
Reports & Research
Avril 2025
Since UNFCCC CoP29 in November 2024 and the nominal approval of Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement, the regulatory landscape has been rapidly changing. This report and accompanying data provide a snapshot of carbon rights in a world where there is massive institutional demand for carbon trading to…
Reports & Research
Mars 2025
Le département de Médina Yoro Foulah, situé en Haute-Casamance au Sénégal, est touché par la déforestation, liée à l’avancée du front agricole et à l’exploitation forestière illégale du bois de rose. Cette situation est aggravée par la faiblesse des structures locales de gouvernance et le manque de…
Journal Articles & Books
Mars 2025
As a climate change mitigation strategy, emission reduction projects, such as those related to forest carbon, are being developed around the globe. Framed under a multiple-win narrative, such projects are praised by multi-lateral organisations as initiatives that simultaneously mitigate climate…