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Land, Volume 8, Issue 6

2019 June - 18 articles

Cover Story: Smallholders worldwide experience processes of displacement from their lands under neoliberal governance. The displacement is often “slow” and driven by decades of agricultural policies and land governance regimes that favor input-intensive agricultural and natural resource extraction at the expense of traditional agrarian practices, markets, and producers. Smallholders struggle to remain viable in the face of these forces, yet they often experience hunger. To persist on the land, families supplement and finance farm production by engaging in international migration. Research carried out in Nicaragua and Guatemala demonstrates how smallholders use migration to address persistent hunger, with the two cases illuminating the centrality of underlying land distribution questions in migration from rural spaces of Central America. View this paper.
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Articles (18)

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
22 Citations
12,266 Views
13 Pages

25 June 2019

Uyo is one of the fastest-growing cities in Nigeria. In recent years, there has been a widespread change in land use, yet to date, there is no thorough mapping of vegetation change across the area. This study focuses on land use change, urban develop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
13,437 Views
21 Pages

20 June 2019

The Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (MASEN) established one of the largest solar energy projects in the world through a public–private partnership. It is on communal land previously owned by a Moroccan Amazigh (Berber) clan in the Ghessa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
129 Citations
18,036 Views
31 Pages

20 June 2019

To gain a social license to operate and grow, companies should have effective community engagement activities, social impact assessment processes, environmental and social impact management procedures, and human rights-compatible grievance redress me...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,836 Views
19 Pages

19 June 2019

This paper shows how the slow process of forestland restitution, which is unfolding in Romania since 1991 has eroded the threads of sustainable forest management by an insidious institutional amnesia (IA). The four symptoms of this harmful process (f...

  • Conference Report
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,936 Views
12 Pages

The Future of Traditional Landscapes: Discussions and Visions

  • Hans Renes,
  • Csaba Centeri,
  • Alexandra Kruse and
  • Zdeněk Kučera

18 June 2019

At the 2018 meeting of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape (PECSRL), that took place in Clermont-Ferrand and Mende in France, the Institute for Research on European Agricultural Landscapes e.V. (EUCALAND) Network or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,003 Views
25 Pages

17 June 2019

The denitrification rate in C2H2-amended intact soil cores and soil N2O fluxes in closed static chambers were monitored in a Mediterranean irrigated maize-cropped field. The measurements were carried out during: (i) a standard fertilization managemen...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
13,726 Views
15 Pages

15 June 2019

Land plays an important role in the economies of developing countries, and many theories connecting land inequality with different dimensions of economic development already exist. Even though efficacious land distribution allows societies to transit...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,090 Views
11 Pages

14 June 2019

Recent conflict along the border of Bangladesh and Myanmar has amplified a food security crisis and access to the region remains challenging. Moderate-resolution satellite remote sensing offers an approach to complement more traditional food insecuri...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,593 Views
10 Pages

13 June 2019

Viewpoint geological and geomorphological heritage sites (geosites and geomorphosites) offer panoramic views over unique geological features and landscapes dominated by significant features. The environmental context is of crucial importance for thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,160 Views
14 Pages

7 June 2019

The proper delineation of site-specific management zones is very important in the agricultural land management of potentially degraded areas. There is a necessity for the development of prospective tools in management plans to correctly understand th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,387 Views
10 Pages

5 June 2019

Researchers and development practitioners have an interest in the relationship between land and rural livelihoods. In this context, agricultural land is being increasingly lost because of developing industrialization in the provinces of Vietnam. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
11,258 Views
12 Pages

3 June 2019

Smallholders worldwide continue to experience processes of displacement from their lands under neoliberal political-economic governance. This displacement is often experienced as “slow”, driven by decades of agricultural policies and land...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
12,306 Views
25 Pages

3 June 2019

Land evaluation is a process that is aimed at the sustainable development of agricultural production in rural areas, especially in developing countries. Therefore, land evaluation involves many aspects of natural conditions, economic, and social issu...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,201 Views
13 Pages

War-Induced Displacement: Hard Choices in Land Governance

  • Gemma van der Haar and
  • Mathijs van Leeuwen

1 June 2019

Civil war and violence often force large numbers of people to leave their lands. Multiple waves of displacement and (partial) return generate complex overlapping claims that are not easily solved. As people return to their regions of origin—som...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,249 Views
12 Pages

31 May 2019

Endemic species on mountains often have narrow altitudinal ranges and are more threatened at the higher altitudes, especially with climate changes. However, plants could use special microhabitats at the mountain tops as proper places for surviving th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,842 Views
16 Pages

Evaluation of Land Intensive Use in Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone

  • Liangliang Zhou,
  • Yishao Shi and
  • Xiangyang Cao

31 May 2019

Free trade zones represent an important system innovation space to realize economic agglomeration advantages with high-level openings. However, its evaluation of land intensive use has not received enough attention. The goal of this paper is to build...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,753 Views
28 Pages

Landscape—A Review with a European Perspective

  • Katia Talento,
  • Miguel Amado and
  • Josè Carlos Kullberg

28 May 2019

This article aims to act as a general literature review regarding the landscape, analyzing it through a synthesis of the main concepts and processes that have generated, and subsequently developed, the word “Landscape”. It is a versatile...

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