Highlights•Global governance refers to rules at all levels having transnational
repercussions.•Changes in global governance have facilitated and responded to land …

Land systems are the result of human interactions with the natural environment.
Understanding the drivers, state, trends and impacts of different land systems on social and …

This article reviews the current state of literature on the notion of security of tenure of land.
This examination is topical as tenure security has become a key objective for land policies …

The collapse of socialist governance structures in Central and Eastern Europe led to the
widespread abandonment of agricultural land. We estimated and compared the …

Southeast Asia has long promoted social forestry (SF) in conservation areas, fallow forests,
tree plantations, areas in timber concessions and locally managed agro-forest systems, with …

The meaning of land and land policies is diverse and contested across and within local and
(inter) national settings. The phrase 'land policy', used to refer to all policies that have …

How is agriculture integrated into the capitalist economy? The original Agrarian Question
and its meandering into a broad range of contemporary questions and puzzles are traced by …

Land fragmentation has been shown to limit agricultural production and more broadly rural
development in many countries across the world. In the Central and Eastern European …

Community forestry or social forestry (henceforth referred collectively as SF) programs have
become new modes of forest management empowering local managers and hence …

This paper examines the interactions between state-led land reform, agrarian structures, and
deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Land reform tends to promote land redistribution …