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Evaluación de la sostenibilidad de un sistema de producción frutihortícola en transición agroecológica en la provincia de Jujuy, Argentina = Evaluation of the Sustainability of a F... by Chavez Clemente, Maria Daniela, Fernandez, Gabriela Silvia, Arce, Silvana Andrea, Segovia Salazar, Walter Alcides

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Optimization of Crude Palm Oil Fund to Support Smallholder Oil Palm Replanting in Reducing Deforestation in Indonesia by Nurfatriani, F., Ramawati, Sari, G.K., Komarudin, Heru

“…We should prioritize the use of the fund not only to support smallholder replanting, but also to clarify their land tenure rights, so that they could get access to sustainable certification and financial institutions. …”
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Increased climate variability and sedentarization in Tanzania: Health and nutrition implications on pastoral communities of Mvomero and Handeni districts, Tanzania by Ripkey, C., Little, P.D., Domínguez-Salas, Paula, Kinabo, J., Mwanri, A., Girard, Amy W.

“…Due to risks associated with climate and sedentarization, land tenure policies that allow continued practice of highly mobile livelihood strategies, namely, legal recognition of collective land rights, should be adopted.…”
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The challenges of community-based natural resource management in pastoral rangelands by Robinson, Lance W., Eba, Bedasa, Flintan, Fiona E., Frija, Aymen, Ng'ang'a, Irene N., Ontiri, Enoch M., Sghaier, Mongi, Abdu, Nizam H., Moiko, Stephen S.

“…Among the characteristics that emerged from our study as important were socio-political and biophysical characteristics of the wider landscape within which the community’s rangeland territory is located and the extent to which that territory is circumscribed by some combination of other land uses and land tenure types, major political boundaries, and physical landscape features. …”
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Agrifood systems policy research: historical evolution of agrifood systems in Odisha, India by Sarkar, Anindita, Chakraborty, Shreya, Mukherji, Aditi

“…Several important political-economic developments like land tenure systems, feudal and semi-feudal structures, and their alliance with colonial extraction of revenue and taxation regimes historically have determined the agrarian pathways manifested in present inequalities in access to land, resources, and capital. …”
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Land dispute resolution in Mozambique: institutions and evidence of agroforestry technology adoption by Unruh, Jon D.

“…This paper presents work carried out in postwar Mozambique on the availability and legitimacy of evidence pertaining to land tenure dispute resolution. What is unusual about the Mozambique case is that the physical presence of a natural resource management technology -agroforestry trees in this case - also serves as one of the most widely available and legitimate forms of evidence in the postwar period. …”
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Development of land rental markets and agricultural productivity growth: the case of northern Ethiopia by Benin, Samuel, Ahmed, Mohamed Hassan, Pender, John L., Ehui, Simeon K.

“…Together, the results suggest that land tenure arrangements are indeed dynamic and have evolved in a manner that has eliminated any Marshallian inefficiencies associated with share tenancy.…”
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Unlocking complexity: the importance of idealisation in simulation modelling by Haggith, M., Prabhu, Ravi

“…These examples encompass issues dealing with land tenure, forest management, economic values, social diversity, communication and collaboration. …”
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Policies for reduced deforestation and their impact on agricultural production by Angelsen, A.

“…Thefirst set of policies attempts to reduce the rent of extensive agriculture, either by neglecting extension, marketing, and infrastructure, generating alternative income opportunities, stimulating intensive agricultural production or by reforming land tenure. The second set aims to increase either extractive or protective forest rent and—more importantly— create institutions (community forest management) or markets (payment for environmental services) that enable land users to capture a larger share of the protective forest rent. …”
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Smallholder agricultural carbon projects in Ghana: Benefits, barriers, and institutional arrangements by Lee Jean

“…Institutional arrangements (e.g. contracts, land tenure, farmer organizations) can affect the costs, risks, barriers, and incentives farmers encounter in participating and benefiting from climate mitigation projects. …”
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Modelling the impacts of group ranch subdivision on agro-pastoral households in Kajiado, Kenya by Thornton, Philip K., BurnSilver, S.B., Boone, Randall B., Galvin, K.A.

“…Pastoral communities in East Africa are facing considerable challenges arising from shifts in land tenure policy from communal to individual landholdings and high human population growth rates. …”
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Reflexions on Agro-pastoralists in the WANA region: challenges and future priorities by Ates, S., Louhaichi, Mounir

“…However, protection and rehabilitation of degraded rangelands depend upon complicated factors such as land tenure, control of grazing, intensified forage production, and recurrent droughts.…”
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Water, agriculture and poverty in the Niger River Basin by Ogilvie, A., Mahe, G., Ward, J., Serpantie, G., Lemoalle, J., Morand, P., Barbier, Bruno, Diop, Amadou Tamsir, Caron, A., Namara, Regassa E., Kaczan, D., Lukasiewicz, A., Paturel, J.E., Lienou, G., Clanet, J.C.

“…The overlap of traditional and modern rules impedes secure access to water and investments in agriculture by generating uncertain land tenure. Improved agriculture and water management require technical, sociological, and regulatory changes to address the wider causes of poverty. …”
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Interdependence in Farmer Technology Adoption Decisions in Smallholder Systems: Joint Estimation of Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Rural Tanzania by Kassie, Menale, Jaleta, Moti, Shiferaw, Bekele, Mmbando, F., Mekuria M

“…Tel: 254(20) 722 4628; Fax: 254(20) 7224600. 2 organizing farmers into associations, improving land tenure security, and enhancing skills of civil servants can increase uptake of SAPs in smallholder systems.…”
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Do local land institutions make a dime’s worth of a difference in rural land markets?: evidence from Malawi by Matchaya, Greenwell C.

“…Moreover the tested hypotheses emerge from a theoretical model that is unique to the literature on rural land markets and land tenure.…”
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Soil Best Bets Compendium by Sommer, Rolf, Godiah, David, Braslow, Juliet

“…Resource requirements are further sub-divided into: Organic inputs; Inorganic inputs; Land, land tenure; Labour; Money, cash, loan; Time; Machinery, animal draught, other tools; Market demand; and Others. …”
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Agroforestry systems provide firewood for livelihood improvement in Guatemala by Sibelet, Nicole, Posada, Karla E., Gutiérrez Montes, Isabel A.

“…The enriched agroforestry system is thus presented as a potential solution for meeting the annual demand for firewood. Land tenure security influences rural families’ decision to invest or innovate. …”
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Perceived benefits, constraints and determinants of sustainable intensification of mixed crop and livestock systems in the Sahelian zone of Burkina Faso by Ayantunde, Augustine A., Oluwatosin, B.O., Yameogo, Viviane, Wijk, Mark T. van

“…In West African Sahel, there has been an only limited intensification of the mixed crop and livestock systems due to many constraints faced by smallholder farmers including climate change, low use of external inputs, insecure land tenure, and low adoption of productivity-enhancing technologies. …”
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Intersecting and dynamic gender rights to néré, a food tree species in Burkina Faso by Pehou, Catherine, Djoudi, Houria, Vinceti, Barbara, Elias, Marlène

“…This study investigates the social factors that define women's harvesting rights to néré pods in the centre-west region of Burkina Faso through the lens of intersectionality. Whereas customary land tenure in Burkina Faso grants men primary ownership and use rights to land, different groups of women are entitled to harvest food-tree products such as néré pods, in defined spaces. …”
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Game-changing Partnerships for Game-changing Solutions for Food and Climate by Korngold, Alice

“…ADVANCE EQUITABLE LIVELIHOODS • Closing the gender gap in agriculture and food systems that make it dicult for women to have access to resources and opportunities, including capital, technology, and land tenure. 5. BUILD RESILIENCE TO VULNERABILITIES • Empowering 200 million farmers through the development of markets and implementation of climate-smart practices for resilience and protability.…”
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