Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and
energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an …

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 …

Abstract While the World Bank safeguard policies and International Finance Corporation
Performance Standards specify the requirements to be observed when project-induced …

Fields of Gold critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the
financialization of farmland. In particular, Madeleine Fairbairn focuses on developments in …

Rural populations around the world rely on small-scale farming and other uses of land and
natural resources, which are often governed by customary, traditional, and indigenous …

Since their widespread introduction in the 1980s, large-scale tree plantations have seen
contestations over their socio-economic impacts. With the establishment of new plantations …

This paper reviews the literature to identify the relationship between tenure security and food
security. The literatures on tenure issues and food security issues are not well connected …

The recent phenomenon of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) is associated with what
has been described as a global agrarian transition. New forms of land exploitation and …

" The Global South is relatively neglected in research about our" compartmentalised world".
The volume of publications on inequality has increased five-fold since 1992, but many of …

Insecure land tenure plagues many developing and tropical regions, often where
conservation concerns are highest. Conservation organizations have long focused on …