Soil and land management
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- Is large-scale private land acquisition beneficial to Africa?
- ( L. Cotula;S. Vermeulan;R. Leonard / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009)
- Over 2008 large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and Southeast Asia have increased. This report discusses key trends and drivers in land acquisitions, the contract...
- Land acquisition: is there a code of conduct?
- ( J. von Braun (ed);R. Meinzen-Dick (ed) / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009)
- One of the effects of the food price crisis on the world food system is the increasing acquisition of farmland in developing countries by other countries seeking to ensure their food supplies....
- Is agroforestry a solution to climate change?
- ( World Agroforestry Centre , 2009)
- This policy brief analyses agroforestry as a tool for improving livelihood in Tanzania and tackling emerging local and global challenges. The paper argues that agroforestry creates a web of resilient ...
- More rice but less land: which way for Africa?
- ( GRAIN , 2009)
- In the wake of the 2008 global food crisis, African capitals have been buzzing with renewed talk of the need for food self-sufficiency, and rice is often at the top of government agendas. Although eve...
- How to develop and promote food diversification and nutrition in Malawi
- ( S. Nordin / Food & Nutrition Security and Permaculture in Malawi , 2005)
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Tackling food insecurity in Malawi has moved away from emergency aid towards relief and recovery, with government policy looking at food diversification and nutrition. Produced following a nine-mon...
- Climate change and african agriculture: a Ricardian analysis
- ( P. Kurukulasuriya;R. Mendelsohn / African Association of Agricultural Economists , 2008)
- This paper examines the impact of climate change on cropland in Africa using a ricardian cross-sectional approach. Relying on farm data from an 11-country survey of over 9500 farmers, the study analys...
- Can urban agriculture generate adequate livelihoods and food security?
- ( M. Redwood (ed) / International Development Research Centre , 2009)
- This report, by researchers working in urban agriculture (UA), examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapi...
- Is integrated natural resource management a solution?
- ( R. Thomas;F. Turkelboom;R. La Rovere / International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas , 2008)
- Using the Khanasser Valley in Syria as an example, this paper looks at Integrated Natural Resource management (INRM) as an approach to tackle land degradation. The authors argue that INRM is a better ...
- The state of global forest tenure reform
- ( W., D. Sunderlin;J. Hatcher;M. Liddle / The Rights and Resources Initiative , 2008)
- In 2002, Forest Trends reported that in recent decades governments had begun to reduce their legal ownership and control of the world’s forests. This document evaluates whether this forest tenur...
- Methodologies for sustainable land management in Africa
- ( P., I. Ezeaku;A. Davison / INSouth , 2008)
- In the face of trends towards a widening “food gap” and general poverty, this paper attempts to address the problem by discussing the methodologies necessary for sustainable land managemen...
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