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Appréhender le droit marocain de l’immobilier: une approche transversale “ droit privé-droit public ”

Reports & Research
April, 2015
Morocco
land law
urbanization
land tenure
community land rights
land stakeholders
Comment saisir dans sa globalité la dimension juridique se rapportant aux notions de propriété et de foncier au Maroc ? Vaste et complexe démarche qui englobe de nombreux aspects et disciplines, que ce soit à travers l’étude des régimes fonciers, des pratiques immobilières ou encore des politiques publiques mises en place par les différentes autorités du pays. Cette transversalité se retrouve tout d’abord dans une tentative de définition générale qui permettrait d’englober la totalité des caractéristiques afférentes à notre sujet : droit foncier ou droit de la propriété ?
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The Water Footprint of Food Aid

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2015
Sudan, United States of America, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Bangladesh
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
land deals
Food aid is a critical component of the global food system, particularly when emergency situations arise. For the first time, we evaluate the water footprint of food aid. To do this, we draw on food aid data from theWorld Food Programme and virtual water content estimates from WaterStat. We find that the total water footprint of food aid was 10 km3 in 2005, which represents approximately 0.5% of the water footprint of food trade and 2.0% of the water footprint of land grabbing (i.e., water appropriation associated with large agricultural land deals).
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Caravan 31: Coping with climate change in dry areas

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Egypt, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Central Asia, Western Asia
Land & Food Security
agricultural land management
food security
mining
This issue of Caravan showcases some of ICARDA’s efforts of coping with climate change in dry areas with improved water land management and resilient production systems. These include initiatives in conservation agriculture which provide sustained production levels while conserving the ecosystems on which our entire food system is dependent upon. ICARDA continues to make significant contributions in the promotion of sustainable water land management approaches and technologies devised by researchers and farmers.
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Potential Business Opportunities from Saline Water and Salt-affected Land Resources

Reports & Research
November, 2015
Northern Africa, Egypt
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land degradation
Report on Potential Business Opportunities from Saline Water and Salt-affected Land Resources
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List of Participants during the workshop pastoral code (Tunisia)

Reports & Research
June, 2015
Northern Africa, Tunisia
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
climate change
desertification
land degradation
rangelands
land use
land rights
List of Participant to the stakeholder meeting held in Tunis and aimed at establishing a processes for sustainable collective rangeland management and governance
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Rangeland governance

Institutional & promotional materials
June, 2015
Northern Africa, Tunisia
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land management
climate change
land degradation
rangelands
land rights
Presentation made by Jutta werner during the stakeholder meeting held in Tunis and aimed at developing sound policies that will enable implementation of governance of rangelands (collective action for sustainable pastoralism)
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The Economics of Land Degradation in Africa_Benefits of Action Outweigh the Costs_A complementary report to the ELD Initiative

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2015
Northern Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Eastern Africa, Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Middle Africa, Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Southern Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Western Africa, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
desertification
land degradation
Land degradation and desertification are among the biggest environmental challenges of our time. In the last 40 years, we lost nearly a third of the world’s arable farmland due to erosion, just as the number of people to be fed from it almost doubled. That’s why the UN General Assembly declared 2015 as the International Year of Soils. And the good news is that this new report shows that while Africa remains the most severely a«ected region, the benefit of taking action across the continent outweighs the cost of implementing it: not just by a little, but by a factor of seven.
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Mapping Flooded Rice Paddies Using Time Series of MODIS Imagery in the Krishna River Basin, India

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2015
Morocco, Northern Africa
land
research
Rice is one of the major crops cultivated predominantly in flooded paddies, thus
a large amount of water is consumed during its growing season. Accurate paddy rice maps
are therefore important inputs for improved estimates of actual evapotranspiration in the
agricultural landscape. The main objective of this study was to obtain flooded paddy rice
maps using multi-temporal images of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS) in the Krishna River Basin, India. First, ground-based spectral samples collected
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Land and Water Productivity: Technical report

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2015
Morocco, Northern Africa
land management
water management
Land and Water Productivity: Technical report.
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Restoration and rehabilitation of degraded Saharan communal rangelands in southern Tunisia

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2016
Tunisia, Northern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
rangelands
This study was carried out at the communal rangelands of Dhahar, Saharan area of Southern Tunisia, to assess the impact of restoration and rehabilitation techniques on natural vegetation cover. Two rangeland types (Rhanterium suaveolens and Anthyllis sericea) were subjected to three management modes: two years rest (M), reseeding Stipagrostis pungens (S) and free grazing (T). In all plots, total plant cover, species richness and grass density where determined in spring 2008.