Multifunctional land-use systems : a solution for food security in Africa? / Elisabeth Simelton, Madelene Ostwald and Moses Osiru -- Nigerian climate-smart agriculture practices with scaling potential / Simon A Shomkegh -- Treating shea trees as crops improves women's livelihoods in Burkina Faso...

Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous...

British Columbia (BC) is committed to transitioning to a low-carbon energy system to meet its CO2 emission reduction targets, but this shift towards renewable energy sources may have significant implications for land use. This paper investigates the land-use impacts of different electrification...

Land use (LU) policies exert a profound influence on socio-economic dynamics. However, the intricate relationship between these two aspects has yet to receive comprehensive examination, especially when focusing on specific LU types and smaller-scale geographical regions. We, therefore, elucidate...

The objective of this contribution is to investigate the processes that condition and shape the emergence of agricultural frontiers, i.e. regions with rapid development of natural resource exploitation and land-use changes, in territories considered as marginal in terms of agricultural...