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Nearly 200 million Africans currently live in slums. Urban operations are one of the main tools for improving living conditions in informal settlements, where land tenure, housing, development and services largely function outside any official system.
Some authorities argue that land is the most fundamental of natural resources. If their arguments fail to convince, we certainly have to cede that land is a limited natural resource. Aside from a few thousand Moken living on the Andaman Sea, humans are tied to the land.
In order to address the challenges in coastal regions, there is the need to understand the extent and impacts of past changes and their implications for future management. Land use data and remotely-sensed imagery are often used to provide insights into these changes.
En Afrique des Grands Lacs, l’accès à la terre est au coeur du maintien de la paix et du développement économique, alors qu’en moyenne la survie de 80 % des populations de cette région dépend de l’agriculture, essentiellement familiale.