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Timber Regulation and Value Chain in Community-Based Timber Enterprise and Smallholder Forestry in the Philippines

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2016
Philippines
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
land governance
Forest tenure reform has no doubt attained significant gains in promoting social justice and equity in the forest sector, through legal recognition of the communities’ property rights over forest lands in many developing countries. This includes the right to harvest and market trees that the communities planted. Along these lines, the Philippines’ community-based forest management (CBFM) and smallholder forestry have the potential to meet the country’s wood demand and contribute to its poverty alleviation goal.
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Smallholder Forestry in the Western Amazon: Outcomes from Forest Reforms and Emerging Policy Perspectives

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2016
Global
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
land governance
The forest reforms unfolding during the last two decades in the western Amazon have embraced policy regimes founded on the principles of sustainable forest management. The policy frameworks adopted for smallholder forestry aimed to clarify forest rights including those of the indigenous people and smallholders, support the adoption of sustainable forest management and put a system in place to assure a legal timber supply. The emerging forest policy regimes have significantly shaped who has access to the forest, how the forest resources are used and the benefits that are utilized.
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Do Relocated Villages Experience More Forest Cover Change? Resettlements, Shifting Cultivation and Forests in the Lao PDR

Environments

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2015
Global
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land degradation
This study explores the relationships between forest cover change and the village resettlement and land planning policies implemented in Laos, which have led to the relocation of remote and dispersed populations into clustered villages with easier access to state services and market facilities. We used the Global Forest Cover Change (2000–2012) and the most recent Lao Agricultural Census (2011) datasets to assess forest cover change in resettled and non-resettled villages throughout the country.
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Classification of Land Use on Sand-Dune Topography by Object-Based Analysis, Digital Photogrammetry, and GIS Analysis in the Horqin Sandy Land, China

Environments

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2016
Global
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land degradation
Previous field research on the Horqin Sandy Land (China), which has suffered from severe desertification during recent decades, revealed how land use on a sand-dune topography affects both land degradation and restoration. This study aimed to depict the spatial distribution of local land use in order to shed more light on previous field findings regarding policies on a broader scale.
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Investigating the Role of the Local Community as Co-Managers of the Mount Cameroon National Park Conservation Project

Environments

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2016
Global
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land degradation
Local forest management is essential for enhancing the sustainability of both communities’ livelihoods and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Land Degradation (REDD+) projects. However, few studies have examined the impact of forest ownership and control on community engagement and the functioning of communities in a co-managing conservation initiative. This paper examines the influence of forest management on local participation and identifies the roles/functions of local communities in the Mount Cameroon National Park REDD+ conservation project.
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Do Relocated Villages Experience More Forest Cover Change? Resettlements, Shifting Cultivation and Forests in the Lao PDR

Environments

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2015
Global
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land governance
This study explores the relationships between forest cover change and the village resettlement and land planning policies implemented in Laos, which have led to the relocation of remote and dispersed populations into clustered villages with easier access to state services and market facilities. We used the Global Forest Cover Change (2000–2012) and the most recent Lao Agricultural Census (2011) datasets to assess forest cover change in resettled and non-resettled villages throughout the country.
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Making Mechanization Accessible to Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Environments

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2016
Global
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land productivity
This paper summarizes the deliberations at a meeting convened by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation held in Beijing in October 2015. Farm power and mechanization are agricultural production inputs that will be essential to raise the labor and land productivity required if Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 2 (ending poverty and hunger) are to be achieved.
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Analysis of Urban Heat Island (UHI) in Relation to Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): A Comparative Study of Delhi and Mumbai

Environments

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2015
India
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
land records
The formation and occurrence of urban heat island (UHI) is a result of rapid urbanization and associated concretization. Due to intensification of heat combined with high pollution levels, urban areas expose humans to unexpected health risks. In this context, the study aims at comparing the UHI in the two largest metropolitan cities of India, i.e., Delhi and Mumbai. The presence of surface UHI is analyzed using the Landsat 5 TM image of 5 May 2010 for Delhi and the 17 April 2010 image for Mumbai.
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Le contrôle des ressources dans une guerre civile régionalisée (Centrafrique).

Une dynamique de décentralisation par les armes

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2015
Central African Republic
Land Conflicts
peri-urban agriculture
natural resources
conflicts
land conflicts
Ce numéro des Cahiers d’Outre-Mer traite d’une question classique de géographie politique, la relation entre ressources et conflits armés, dans un contexte original, celui de la République centrafricaine (RCA). Afin d’introduire les textes qui composent ce dossier, il s’agit d’abord de situer le cas centrafricain par rapport aux principales approches développées dans les sciences sociales sur la thématique des conflits et des ressources, et de trier celles qui semblent le plus opératoires pour éclairer l’imbroglio centrafricain.
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Impossible développement agricole en République centrafricaine ?

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Central African Republic
Land in post-conflict settings
post-conflict settings
pastoral lands
agriculture
conflicts
pastoral land rights
L’abandon, déjà ancien, de l’agriculture a contribué à l’émergence des crises politico-militaires récentes en République centrafricaine. Un retour à la paix ne pourra donc pas être durable sans une action volontariste et prolongée en faveur du développement agricole, et notamment sans la recherche d’une meilleure articulation entre agriculture et élevage. Telle est la thèse défendue par les auteurs de l’article, qui envisagent ensuite quelques-unes les modalités que pourrait prendre cet appui à l’agriculture.