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  1. Library Resource
    War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land
    Reports & Research
    February, 2023
    Ukraine

    War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land, exposes the financial interests and the dynamics at play leading to further concentration of land and finance.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2022
    Central Asia, Eastern Europe

    Land degradation neutrality (LDN) has been defined by the Parties to the Convention as: A state whereby the amount and quality of land resources, necessary to support ecosystem functions and services and enhance food security, remains stable or increases within specified temporal and spatial scales and ecosystems. The present report is an overview of the status of land degradation neutrality (LDN) in the region including a national overview for the 17 programme countries.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2013
    Armenia, Georgia, Moldova

    This paper was prepared within the “Cooperatives and their alternatives” component of the Agrarian Structures Initiative (ASI) which a regional program of FAO in Europe and Central Asia. This paper outlines some of the main issues influencing the development (or not) of farmer and rural organisations and presents in further detail the specific situation in Armenia, Georgia and Moldova. All three countries returned ownership of the majority of land to the rural population.

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    Alors même que le monde cherche à intensifier ses efforts pour réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, la nécessité de s'adapter aux effets du changement climatique déjà enclenchés est tout aussi importante. 

    Reports & Research
    November, 2021
    Africa, Middle Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe, Oceania

     La sixième édition du Rapport 2021 sur l'écart entre les besoins et les perspectives en matière d'adaptation aux changements climatiques : la tempête qui se lève, examine comment le monde s'adapte à ces impacts croissants.

    Le rapport constate qu'il est urgent d'augmenter le financement de l'adaptation aux changements climatiques. Les coûts d'adaptation estimés dans les pays en développement sont cinq à dix fois supérieurs aux flux actuels de financement public de l'adaptation, et le fossé du financement de l'adaptation se creuse.

  5. Library Resource

    Southeast Europe 2021

    Manuals & Guidelines
    Reports & Research
    October, 2021
    Europe, Eastern Europe, Southern Europe

    The present Guidelines form part of a joint effort by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to help countries achieve indicator 5.a.2 of Target 5.a in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations in 2015.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2016
    Poland, United States of America

    The main purpose of this paper is to carry out an analysis of the agricultural land market in Poland based on market transactions conducted in 2002. Authors analysed the sale and lease market of agricutural land making an allowance for its ownership structure. The analysis was made both on the private market and toward the land owned by the State Treasury and managed by the Agency of the Agricultural Propety of the State Treasury (since July 16, 2003 transformed into the Agricultural Property Agency).

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2013
    Bulgaria

    Land fragmentation is considered a major obstacle to the efficient use of land and other agricultural resources in Bulgaria. This study is concerned with formally testing the relationship between fragmentation of land plots and land productivity in the country. Multiple regression analysis and agricultural data obtained from the 2003 Bulgaria Multi-topic Household Survey is employed for the purpose. Results of the study suggest that the level of current fragmentation is relatively low and not likely to adversely affect land productivity.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2016
    China, Russia, United States of America

    Farmers' ability to leave agriculture is an important and debated topic in China and other countries. Many scholars believe China's unique land tenure policies prevent farmers from leaving agriculture. This paper examines the hypothesis that China's land tenure system deters exit from agriculture using household level data from Northeast China. Farm Management, Labor and Human Capital, Land Economics/Use,

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2013
    Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Africa

    The article examines the European share in large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper aims to identify correlation between biofuels policy and large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa and the consequences of this phenomenon. It first identifies the backgrounds that caused the increased interest in biofuel production and, consequently, African land acquisition in recent years. Then, it examines growth in the number of land transactions that take place on the continent. Finally, the paper investigates the share of European capital in land transactions.

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