Private sector investment has become increasingly central to development in the global
south, and in recent years these interventions have taken a 'green'turn. This is demonstrated …

Governments are pushing for decentralization of forestry governance, but in Loita community
forest, the traditional community management organization is inviting government and other …

Clouded titles to land in remote rural areas of the Global South have recently prevented
increases in agricultural productivity and payments for environmental services (PES), so …

As global capitalism is expanding to the most remote areas of the world, the notion of
“frontier”, where competing social orders are contesting each other, is gaining traction in …

Conservation governance is increasingly globalized, particularly supply chain polices
implemented by multinational corporations. However, the ways that local elite narratives and …

This paper examines how Malagasy dina—local-level codes considered 'customary law'in
Madagascar—have been enrolled in competing projects of territorial production. In doing so …

Background Miombo woodlands cover≈ 2.7 million km 2 of central and southern Africa
between dry (650 mm mean annual rainfall) and moist miombo (1400 mm) and are currently …

While national figures of land availability are used to justify accepting large-scale land
investors, not very much is known about the local level realities of land availability. By …

Mapping ecosystem service (ES) supply, demand, and flow–and identifying supply/demand
mismatches–has become a focus of ES research and has benefitted from recent advances …

Tropical forest provides a crucial portion of sustenance in many rural communities, although
it is increasingly under pressure from appropriations of various scales. This study …