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Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon by Cattaneo, Andrea

“…What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier? This report identifies the links between the agriculture and logging sectors in the Amazon, economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in the region and in Brazil as a whole. …”
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Sedentarisation of cattle farmers in the derived savanna region of south west Nigeria: Results of a survey by Jabbar, M.A., Reynolds, L., Francis, P.A.

“…Generally herd sizes were larger among recent settlers but with longer duration of settlement and with cattle rearers' involvement in crop production, the herds became less mobile between seasons and herd size decreased and the proportion of farms with mixed Zebu/trypanotolerant cattle herds increased. …”
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A Green Belt of synergies by Bergvall, Maria, Dahl, Elin

“…Colombia has a high level of urbanisation and many settlers live in informal settlements. However, in Medellin there is a pioneering approach to urban planning and a separated approach is taken regarding the rural-urban interaction zone. …”
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The footprints of history: path dependence in the transformation of property rights in Kenya’s Maasailand. by Mwangi, Esther

“…Construction of the Uganda railway in early twentieth century and the subsequent influx of European settlers who were granted individual title to secure their investments are events that began the institutional path of privatization. …”
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Evolution of land policies and legislation in Malawi and Zimbabwe: implications for forestry development by Mataya, C., Gondo, P., Kowero, G.S.

“…The two countries share similar patterns of land ownership; customary or tribal trust land designated by colonial governments for settlement and cultivation by the indigeneous populations; private land mostly alienated from local communities for commercial farming and ranching; initially by white settlers and later officially sanctioned by post-colonial governments; and public land appropriated by governments for purposes of establishing national parks and forest reserves. …”
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Power and interests in conflicts over the use of irrigation channels in an informal settlement : a Peruvian perspective by Waselikowski, Lisa

“…This has many consequences one of which is tension and conflict between traditional land users and urban settlers, leading to struggles over scarce resources. …”

Incentives to conserve or convert? Can conservation compete with coal in Kutai National Park, Indonesia? by Limberg, G., Moeliono, M., Indriatmoko, Y., Iwan, R., Utomo, N.A., Purwanto, E., Mulyana, A.

“…These resources provide immediate tangible benefits for the settlers in the park and the local government to exploit the park, and affect local possibilities for conserving it. …”
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A produção familiar como alternativa de um desenvolvimento sustentável para a Amazônia: lições aprendidas de iniciativas de uso florestal por produtores familiares na Amazônia boli... by Pokorny B., Godar, Javier, Hoch, L., Johnson, J., Koning, J. de, Medina, G., Steinbrenner, R., Vos, V., Weigelt, J.

“…Most of these initiatives widely ignored the immense potential of Amazonian smallholders—settlers, traditional communities and indigenous groups—to contribute to sound rural development with their own ideas and knowledge. …”
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La producción familiar como alternativa de un desarrollo sostenible para la Amazonía: lecciones aprendidas de iniciativas de uso forestal por productores familiares en la Amazonía... by Pokorny B., Godar, Javier, Hoch, L., Johnson, J., Koning, J. de, Medina, G., Steinbrenner, R., Vos, V., Weigelt, J.

“…Most of these initiatives widely ignored the immense potential of Amazonian smallholders—settlers, traditional communities and indigenous groups—to contribute to sound rural development with their own ideas and knowledge. …”
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Urban Honey: A Review of Its Physical, Chemical, and Biological Parameters That Connect It to the Environment by Quiralte, David, Zarzo, Inmaculada, Fernández-Zamudio, María A., Barco, Héctor, Soriano, José M.

“…This analysis can help to frame the main characteristics to evaluate this universal product, whose consumption began with the first settlers of the world, and its properties have been evolving as well as the characteristics of the production systems.…”
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Characterizing farm households in Khotang, Eastern Nepal, through a quantitative farming systems typology by Zepeda, Adair, Cheesman, Stephanie, Neupane, Nilhari, Shrestha, Nirman, Shrestha, Ram Narayan, Amjath-Babu, T. S., Karki, Saral, Gathala, Mahesh Kumar, Krupnik, Timothy J., López Ridaura, Santiago

“…Over the past centuries, the mid-hills of Nepal have been inhabited and cultivated by nomads, settlers and in the recent decades intensified farming systems. …”
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Diagnóstico sócio-econômico da indústria madeireira Peracchi, no municipio de Tailândia, estado do Pará by Pokorny, B., Sousa, R.

“…The enterprise began a government-approved 12 000 ha forest management project and applied conventional logging techniques which had many ecological, economic and social deficiencies. The settlers near the project were not strongly affected. …”
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Modernization and the evolution of irrigation practices in the Rio Dulce Irrigation Project, Santiago del Estero, Argentina : una tarea de todos by Prieto Garra, Daniel

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Människan i urskogen by Nordström, Eva-Maria

“…Increasing impact from forest grazing and occasions of slash-and-burn cultivation in the 17`h century suggest that a further expansion of human impact took place, a result which is supported by the historical records of the colonisation in the area by Finnish settlers. The result of the pollen analysis demonstrates that Hamra National Park is not a genuine virgin forest, but rather a forest influenced by human activities, such as forest grazing by cattle and manipulation of the fire regime. …”
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Mapping in/e/qualitites : explorations of (in)formality along waterscapes of Buenos Aires by Söderström, Malin

“…In Buenos Aires, Argentina, some of the most common hazards that informal settlers are exposed to are related to water, particularly flooding and contaminated water. …”

El uso del suelo del espacio rural de Gaiman- Chubut by Alcarraz, Gladys Analía, March, María Alejandra, Llanos, Margarita Erica

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Evolución de los medios y estrategias de vida de los pobladores del Proyecto de Asentamiento Agroextractivista Chico Mendes, Acre, Brasil, en relación a los servicios ecosistémicos by Silva, Erilene Lima

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Efectos del aumento poblacional y del cambio de uso del suelo en los recursos hídricos en la microcuenca del río Ciruelas, Costa Rica by Ureña, Natalia, Jiménez, Francisco, Reynolds, J., Jones, Jeffry, Prins, Cornelis

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Landscaping paradise? by Janäng, Marie, Melin, Emelie

“…With a great influx of recent settlers, the Islands comprise a miscellaneous mix of inhabitants, of whom many lack knowledge of the local landscape and how to use its resources in a sustainable way. …”
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El derecho negado a las tierra. El caso del departamento de Presidencia de la Plaza (Chaco) = The Right Denied to the Land. The Case of the Department Presidencia de la Plaza (Cha... by Martinez, Gerardo Roberto

“…Already in the nineteenth century was respected or made to prevail a supposed right of the sectors with greater power, not so the primitive settlers who had been defeated militarily or peasant families who, settled on the land, worked to survive, having the right to land for having lived and worked in it. …”
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