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Migration and urbanization in post-apartheid South Africa

Bakker, Jan David; Parsons, Christopher R.; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2019

Although Africa has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades, we know little about the process of urbanization …, the authors study the effect of migration on urbanization in South Africa. While they find that on average there is no … populations. Overall, the evidence suggests that exogenous migration shocks can foster urbanization in the medium run …

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Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Opportunities in Agricultural Landscapes : A Practitioner's Guide to Agricultural and Land Resources Management

Braimoh, Ademola K. - 2016

Agriculture, and the patterns of land-use change that are associated with it, have a significant ecological footprint, including the effects it has on climate change, accounting for about one-quarter of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally. Yet agriculture is also the only...

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Greenhouse Gas Accounting for Sustainable Land Management : Quick Guidance for Users

Toudert, Anass - 2018

Agriculture, and the patterns of land use change that are associated with it, have a high environmental footprint and contribute to climate change, as the sector accounts for about one-quarter of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally. However, improved land management practices...

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Carbon Accounting Tools for Sustainable Land Management

Toudert, Anass - 2018

Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector is unique among economic sectors because its mitigation potential derives from both an enhancement of removals of GHGs and a reduction of emissions through management of land and livestock. The AFOLU sector is responsible for just under a...

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The State of Land use in Northern Nigeria : A Landsat-Based Mapping Framework

Sedano, Fernando - 2020

This study developed a land cover and land use mapping framework specifically designed for agricultural systems in the Sudan-Sahel region. The mapping approach extracts information from inter- and intra-annual vegetation dynamics from dense stacks of Landsat 8 images. The framework was applied...

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The effects of land title registration on tenure security, investment and the allocation of productive resources : evidence from Ghana

Agyei-Holmes, Andrew; Buehren, Niklas; Goldstein, Markus P. - 2020

Smallholder farmers' investment decisions and the efficiency of resource allocation depend on the security of land tenure. This paper develops a simple model that captures essential institutional features of rural land markets in Ghana, including the dependence of future rights over land on...

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Integrated landscape approaches for Africa's drylands

Gray, Erin - 2016 - Online-Ausg.

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Assessing Effects of Large-Scale Land Transfers : Challenges and Opportunities in Malawi's Estate Sector

Deininger, Klaus - 2017

This study uses data from the complete computerization of agricultural leases in Malawi, a georeferenced farm survey, and satellite imagery to document the opportunities and challenges of land-based investment in novel ways. Although 1.5 million hectares, or 25 percent, of Malawi's agricultural...

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Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China's Rural-Urban Integration : Village-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment

Deininger, Klaus - 2015

As part of a national experiment, in 2008 Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability and eliminate labor market restrictions. This study uses a discontinuity design with spatial...

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Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China's Rural-Urban Integration : Household-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment

Deininger, Klaus - 2015

As part of a national experiment in 2008, Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability and eliminate migration restrictions. A triple difference approach using the Statistics Bureau's...

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