Land degradation and poverty

EB Barbier, JP Hochard - Nature Sustainability, 2018 - nature.com
Land is one of the few productive assets owned by the rural poor, and almost all such
households engage in some form of agriculture. Over 2000–2010 the rural poor on …

[HTML][HTML] The 'new'African customary land tenure. Characteristic, features and policy implications of a new paradigm

A Chimhowu - Land use policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Most of the land in sub-Saharan Africa is governed under various forms of customary tenure.
Over the past three decades a quiet paradigm shift has been taking place transforming the …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

[HTML][HTML] Are rural youth in Ethiopia abandoning agriculture?

S Bezu, S Holden - World Development, 2014 - Elsevier
This study examines current land access and livelihood choices of rural youth in Southern
Ethiopia. We found that youth in rural south have limited access to agricultural land because …

Land titling, human capital misallocation, and agricultural productivity in China

S Liu, S Ma, L Yin, J Zhu - Journal of Development Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
Previous studies quantifying the relationship between land titles and agricultural productivity
have not explored the role of human capital reallocation. This paper enhances existing …

How not to think of land-grabbing: three critiques of large-scale investments in farmland

O De Schutter - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Large-scale investments in farmland have been criticized, chiefly, because of questions
about the capacity of the countries targeted by these land deals to effectively manage these …

Understanding why farmers adopt soil conservation tillage: A systematic review

MO Ogieriakhi, RT Woodward - Soil Security, 2022 - Elsevier
As soils across the globe continue to face problems of severe degradation and loss under
current management practices, there is a great need to study soil conservation decisions …

On the structural transformation of rural Africa

CB Barrett, L Christiaensen, M Sheahan… - Journal of African …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
From 2000 to 2014, per capita GDP in sub-Saharan Africa increased by almost 35% in real
terms, doubling in some countries. Such progress has happened while agricultural …

[SÁCH][B] Land policies for growth and poverty reduction

KW Deininger - 2003 - books.google.com
A CCESS TO LAND AND THE ABILITY TO MAKE productive use of such land is critical to
poor people worldwide. In addition to its direct effect on households' welfare and their …

[HTML][HTML] Spatio-temporal characteristics and influencing factors of land disputes in China: Do socio-economic factors matter?

M Zhang, S Tan, E Chen, J Li - Ecological Indicators, 2024 - Elsevier
Land disputes pose significant challenges to social stability and development. In this paper,
land dispute intensity (LDI) is measured at the provincial level in China from 2009 to 2018 …