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2025

La pierre angulaire qui permet l'octroi de droits fonciers spécifiques aux communautés traditionnelles habitant les zones forestières d'Amazonie est la reconnaissance d'un lien spécifique entre ces communautés et leur... more

2025

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2025, 2022

Farmer-herder conflict constitutes a severe threat to community peace, development, agricultural production and socioeconomic life of rural dwellers especially crop farmers, thereby forcing them to utilise some coping strategies to survive the crises and cushion the effects. Therefore, the paper assessed the causes, effects, and coping strategies utilised by crop farmers to mitigate the effects of conflict with cattle herders in rural communities of Osun State, Nigeria. A total of 120 crop farmers (the more vulnerable ones) were selected across the state and quantitative data were elicited from them using a structured interview schedule. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data. Results show that respondents had a mean age of 44.16 ± 14.77 years and farming experience of 20.16 ± 11.23 years, and 75.7 % had formal education. Loss of crops (mean = 1.63) and reduction in farmers' output and income (mean = 1.52) were the major effects of conflict, while strategies adopted include tightening farm security (mean = 2.93), praying for peace (mean = 2.91) and seeking help from friends and relatives (mean = 2.91). About half (48.6 %) utilised the coping strategies at a high level to mitigate conflict with cattle herders. There was a significant relationship between the coping strategies utilisation and the years of residence (r = 0.224), farming experience (r = 0.201) and effects of conflict (r = 0.567). The study concluded that although crop farmers utilised different coping strategies to mitigate the effects of herders' conflict problem-solving types were most adopted. It is therefore recommended that government and other donor agencies should provide relief materials to crop farmers during conflict situations to enable them to cope with the effects of the conflict and resume their normal economic activities.

2025, Perspectiva Geográfica

La conservación y recuperación de las rondas hídricas, a partir de la identificación de áreas de intervención prioritaria, son aspectos necesarios para asegurar la disponibilidad y sostenibilidad del recurso hídrico. En este estudio, se propone una metodología que, mediante la utilización de sistemas de información geográfica e información secundaría de los planes de ordenamiento territorial, facilite la identificación y cuantificación derondas hídricas expuestas a la potencial degradación causada por los conflictos de uso del suelo presentes, y así dar criterios para la intervención y manejo ambiental de estas áreas. En el municipio de Paipa, se encontró que de las 3.420 hectáreas de ronda hídrica, el 68% se encuentra en zonas de conflictos de uso del suelo alto y medio, viéndose afectadas, principalmente, las rondas de las veredas Medios y Marcura.

2024

This study identified determinants of land holding size of rice farmers in Anambra state, southeast Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was used in sample selection. Six autonomous communities were chosen purposively based on the consideration of rice farming activities in these rural communities. The sample frame was 182 rice farmers. From this sample frame, twenty rice farmers were randomly selected from 6 rice farming communities giving a sample size of 120 but 99 were valid. Data were collected with structured questionnaire from 120 randomly selected rice farmers. Data were collected on the socio- economic variables, land sizes, land amendment practices.. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics; ordinary least squares multiple regression techniques. The results showed that rice farmers in the study area were predominantly male (78.79%) with a mean age of 44.2years and household size of 8persons.Their major method of land acquisition is through communal followed by i...

2024, Asian review of environmental and Earth sciences

2024, Sustainability

2024, International Journal of Entrepreneurship

The existence of the oil palm plantation company PT. Anam Koto in West Pasaman, has had both positive and negative impacts on both the social and economic aspects of the Nagari Aia Gadang community. The involvement of plantation companies in the economic field is able to dominate the economic movement of the community which continues to grow and develop. But on the other hand, it creates social influences, one of which is in the form of prolonged conflicts between Indigenous Peoples and Plantation Companies. Problems arise when: First, the Plantation Company does not fulfill the agreement in the form of handing over plasma to the Indigenous Peoples in accordance with the initial agreement. Second, inequality in dispute resolution. Third: not achieving justice either in the laws and regulations, or in the process of resolving disputes between Indigenous Peoples and plantation investors. This study uses empirical juridical research methods, analytical descriptive. Using primary data derived from informants, and obtained directly from the source, either through interviews, observations, or reports from unofficial documents which are then processed. Secondary data derived from legal materials. The results showed that: The conflict between the Indigenous Peoples of Nagari Aia Gadang Pasaman Barat and PT. Anam Koto is lame in resolving the dispute. Lame in the sense that the rights of indigenous peoples contained in customary law are not involved in dispute resolution, besides that the Regional Government as a facilitator of the transfer of customary land rights into HGU controlled by PT. Anam Koto seemed to let go. In addition, justice has not been achieved both in the laws and regulations and in the dispute resolution process in disputes between Indigenous Peoples and Oil Palm Plantation Investors. The author assumes that actually the regulations relating to HGU and plantations in Indonesia have run away from the concept of justice. The author recommends that the Central Government make a special law on non-litigation settlement of customary land disputes, in the form of mediation facilitated by the Regional Government and the Dispute Resolution Team, involving the Customary Institutions as a form of balancing the interests between the Indigenous Law Community and the Investors.

2024, DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)

Environmental and social transformations in Jambi province, Indonesia, are inextricably interlinked. Large-scale agro-industrial development and nature conservation policies equally alienate local communities from their agricultural lands and turn land into a scarce resource. Consequently, access to agricultural land becomes increasingly contested, not only between communities and state institutions or companies but also among communities themselves. To secure or restore local 'indigenous' land rights against land grabbing and green grabbing by states and companies, indigenous land titling has become a powerful tool all over the world. Ongoing activities of indigenous land titling in Indonesia have been largely perceived as an act of justice by indigenous and land rights activists and affected communities. Yet, a challenging step towards titling is the identification of who is and who is not 'indigenous'. This highly political process creates ethnicity-based identities tied to rights and possibilities around land as a contested resource. Based on a case study of a national park in central Jambi, this paper shows that what is perceived as an act of justice against the state can also produce injustice among local communities by heavily impacting and transforming local social structures and relations.

2024

This economic analysis applied to land dynamics, prices and hedonic values are of great interest to understand the economic causes of the pressure in land price in peri-urban location. Even though they do not tackle the issue of conflicts... more

2024, Rangifer

Reindeer herding and other traditional means of livelihoods are challenged in numerous ways by modernization and globalization processes today. In my sociological study, I am aiming at uncovering and analyzing the manifold socio¬ economic changes and their contextual social and historical links, that influence the present conditions of practicing rein¬ deer herding as a traditional means of livelihood in Finnish Lapland. In addition to focus on land use, my study will give some new understanding of the local environmental management. This article puts the subject in the current socio-eco¬ nomic developments and social scientific discourses around globalization, environmentalism and traditional knowledge. Moreover I will reflect upon methodology and impact for research results.

2024, Unpublished Ph. D. thesis, Département de …

2024, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Le projet Cap IDF a pour objectif scientifique de comprendre les logiques de localisation et de diversification des activités agricoles de proximité autour des pôles urbains franciliens. Dans cette perspective, le projet procède à une analyse de la gouvernance foncière de ces activités agricoles, en confrontant les stratégies des exploitants, les comportements des propriétaires, les relations des résidents à l'agriculture et les décisions publiques locales en matière d'aménagement. Notre recherche analyse les dynamiques de diversification foncière des exploitations agricoles, laquelle peut suivre des évolutions rapides. Le projet est également innovant sur le plan de l'analyse de la gouvernance, puisqu'il associe l'étude des stratégies économiques des exploitations, des pratiques des résidents avec la mise en oeuvre empirique de la gestion foncière publique locale. Nos recherches ont montré des dynamiques de reterritorialisation des activités agricoles dans la région métropole parisienne, pourtant majoritairement caractérisée par les grandes cultures. Nos travaux ont par ailleurs permis de mieux comprendre les formes de concurrences entre activités sur l'occupation des sols agricoles dans une région métropolitaine. Enfin, notre projet a identifié et analysé des innovations en termes de gouvernance foncière des terres agricoles qui transforment les relations entre acteurs des territoires.

2024, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Empirical observation of the forms of agriculture developing at the periphery of cities reveals the generalized presence of particular types of production or commercialisation, which explains why certain sectors, such as the vegetable growing industry or the proximate agricultural productions, are sometimes called « peri-urban agro-industries ». However, two factors make it difficult to identify the production sectors that are specifically peri-urban: The first one is the existence of a large variety of localized agricultural systems in peri-urban areas (see high concentration of cereal growing activities at the periphery of Paris), and the second is the presence, in rural areas, of the same forms of food agriculture. Given this finding, most in the scientific community agree that the specificity of the peri-urban sectors of agricultural production remains to be demonstrated, but that the specific nature of peri-urban land itself is undeniable. Its specificity lies in the fact that an increasing number of users compete for access to resources and land that are traditionally reserved for agriculture. The idea that peri-urban agriculture is above all defined by the state and location of the exploited resources is expressed by the concept of "urban agriculture", proposed by Mougeot (2000), "Urban agriculture is an industry located within (intra-urban agriculture) or in the fringe (peri-urban agriculture) of a town, a city or a metropolis, which grows and raises, processes and distributes a diversity of food and non-food products, (re-) using largely human and material resources, products and services found in and around that urban area, and in turn supplying human and material resources, products and services mainly to that urban area". Moustier and Salam Fall (2004) use and add to this definition by specifying that all agricultural systems located in an urban area (therefore peri-urban area) are at the heart of resources that are used for both agricultural production activities and industrial and other urban activities. This common need for and use of these resources can generate valuable productive synergies, but might also be at the origin of competition between the various systems of production for the consumption of the territorial resources. The territorial dimension of the peri-urban agricultural systems therefore lies in the existence of localized resources that are shared between an agricultural system and the closest urban centre, within what can be called an agri-urban ecosystem 3. At the scale of a territory, the

2024

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2024, Ecology and Society

Conflict over natural resources is a widespread phenomenon in the global south. Trends in consumption, demographics, environmental degradation, and socio-political dynamics are exerting significant pressure on the availability and accessibility of natural resources. In many countries, the governance of land for commercial agricultural investment leads to conflict. Such conflicts are complex, and the drivers extend beyond resource scarcity to issues of access and competition. This paper is based on the results of field research on investments in large-scale Jatropha plantations for biofuel production in Ethiopia. A case study of a large-scale Jatropha plantation in eastern-central Ethiopia is used to reconstruct the history of a short-lived, large-scale biofuel development in Ethiopia, and to examine the processes and the reasons for its failure. Between 2006 and 2009, more than 400,000 ha of land were acquired for industrial biofuel development. Given the country's dependence on imported fossil fuels and the global rush for alternative energy sources, the Ethiopian government, not surprisingly, gave emphasis to investment in biofuel development, mainly through Jatropha plantation. However, after costly experimentation, the "miracle crop" did not deliver what had been promised. Instead, it dispossessed and displaced thousands of marginalized local smallholder agropastoralists, created conflict over water and land resources, and kept thousands of hectares of land out of production. In the end, the rhetoric of "Jatropha revolution" and promises of local and national development were never materialized; the government's ambitious biofuel strategy also failed to achieve its objectives. The main argument of this paper is that the failure of large-scale biofuel companies to fulfill their ambitious promises in Ethiopia is part of the general failure in the governance of large-scale commercial agriculture and misleading views toward, and unrealistic promises of, Jatropha investments. These negatively affected the livelihood of the local agropastoralists and their interactions with the companies, which caused instabilities and conflicts in the area. It is hoped that the findings of this research will contribute to knowledge production and policies on the governance of large-scale commercial agriculture.

2024, Revista Brasileira de Gestão Ambiental e Sustentabilidade

Decorrente da realidade ecológica e de empresas cada vez mais competitivas, surgem na atualidade, um diferencial notável nas organizações: a responsabilidade socioambiental. A implantação de programas com esse cunho dentro das empresas está condicionada a uma gama de fatores para lograr êxito, como programas adequados, contextualizados e bem instituídos, incluindo mensuração de resultados, envolvimento dos colaboradores, dentre outros. Na busca por uma perspectiva melhor para o futuro, surge o interesse pelo estudo do comportamento e da percepção apresentados por funcionários de diferentes instituições bancárias frente ao desenvolvimento sustentável, diante das políticas já instituídas nas empresas. Este processo foi realizado por meio de um estudo exploratório tipo survey, comparando-se instituições financeiras públicas e privadas. Os resultados apontam para uma melhor percepção por parte dos empregados de instituições privadas, com maior predisposição para uma conduta ecologicamen...

2024, Études Caribéennes

This article deals with developments following a period of social conflict resulting from the dispossession of Rarámuri communities in the Copper Canyon of the Sierra Tarahumara by several tourism entrepreneurs. The planning of the “Aventuras” Tourist Park generated expectations and speculation that led private individuals to try to forcibly displace the Rarámuri communities. These communities organized and responded with lawsuits in the courts, most of which have been won. In this research we analyze the process of negotiation with the state government that occurred after the first victories of the communities and the arrival of a state government sympathetic to their demands. During the period studied, the recognition and exercise of the communities' human rights experienced paradigmatic advances at the national level, however, they also faced unforeseen obstacles and State inertia that have not allowed the satisfaction of the communities' demands. The establishment of the Park's Consultative Council and the construction of the regional airport are standpoints for the analysis of this sui generis situation in the region.

2024, Http Www Theses Fr

Une thèse est souvent saluée comme l'aboutissement d'un travail accompli dans la solitude d'un sujet personnel. Il est certainement des parcours qui correspondent à cette figure du doctorant. Mon cas est loin d'y ressembler. De nombreuses personnes, professeurs, collègues ou proches, ont orienté et guidé mon travail, nourri et mis à l'épreuve mes réflexions ou m'ont plus simplement accompagné en chemin. C'est tout naturellement que je les remercie en ouverture de cette thèse. Je remercie tout d'abord André Torre, qui a accepté voilà quatre ans de diriger ce travail, qui a toujours sontenu mes avancées comme mes égarements et qui a certainement été le relecteur le plus attentif de cette thèse. Je remercie ensuite les membres de l'équipe Proximités, mon laboratoire d'accueil à l'INRA, ainsi que les chercheurs rencontrés au gré de projets de recherche :

2024, Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

In Nigeria, many land use conflicts among the teeming rural agrarian communities in the northern parts of the country are often wrongly attributed to ethno-religious differences while ignoring the salient role environmental degradation, climate change, and urbanization play in exacerbating the conflicts. The two traditional farming groups (crop producers and cattle herders) that contribute immensely to the country’s food security are in constant conflict, thereby threatening sustainable agricultural production. The objective in this article is to investigate the nature and extent of land use changes in the Gombe region using geospatial analytical techniques and assess the implications on land conflicts. The work also examined the people’s perceptions of the land conflicts. Data for the study was obtained from LANDSAT images (MSS 1986, TM 1999 and Nigeria Sat-1 2012 for a 20-year period) and through the administration of 300 questionnaires at rural household levels, and from focus gr...

2024, SpringerPlus

This text aims to present the methodology of study of land-use conflicts performed in recent years by a multidisciplinary team, and to reveal the methods of survey and data collection, as well as the structure of the resulting database. We first define the scope of our study by providing a definition of these conflicts, of their characteristics and motives, of the ways they manifest themselves and of the actors involved (I). We then present the methodology we have used to identify conflicts; it is based on a spatial analysis and the combined use of different data collection methods including surveys conducted by experts, analyses of the regional daily press and of data from the administrative litigation courts (II). Finally we present the resulting Conflicts © data base, with its tables and nomenclatures, in which the data collected in different fields are reconciled and analyzed (III), before providing a few examples of how this method can be used to analyze case studies in developed and developing countries (IV).

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Cette recherche est le fruit de six années de travail au cours desquels mes efforts personnels ont bénéficié de nombreux soutiens. Je voudrais remercier tout d'abord le Professeur Michel Mietton et Samuel Depraz, le premier pour avoir accepté la direction de cette thèse, et le second pour avoir lui aussi accompagné mon parcours. Sans eux, ce travail n'aurait pas abouti. Je les remercie donc infiniment de m'avoir accordé leur confiance. Merci aussi à Jacques Imbernon, qui a coordonné le projet de recherche franco-mexicain Selina (Socio-Environmental Laboratory for policy Innovation in National park management) et qui, par l'intermédiaire de Samuel Depraz, m'a permis d'y contribuer et de financer une de mes missions au Mexique. Ma gratitude s'adresse également au Conacyt (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología), qui durant quatre ans m'a fait bénéficier d'une bourse d'études indispensable pour la réalisation matérielle de ce doctorat. Celui-ci est l'achèvement d'une réflexion commencée lors de mon cursus mexicain où le Docteur Sergio Franco Maass, chercheur à l'Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, a dirigé ma maestría et m'a permis de prendre goût à la recherche. De cela, ainsi que de m'avoir aidée dans les démarches en vue de mon doctorat en France, je le remercie sincèrement. Je n'oublie pas Luis Miguel Mandujano Álvarez, chargé de

2024

This study examined effect of farmland management practices among arable crop farmers in Yenagoa local government area, Bayelsa state. Purposive sampling technique was used in selection due to predominance in crop farming in the study area. A sample of 80 arable crop farmers was randomly selected from four communities. Data were collected using structured questionnaire, and were analyzed with descriptive statistics such as mean, frequency and percentage. The result showed that the moderate proportion (40.0%) of the arable crop farmers were within the age bracket of (40-49years).This result implies that arable crop farmers falls within bracket of 40s in the Study Area. Furthermore the result Showed that majority (61.3%) of rural farmers were Female, while (38.8%) were male rural farmers. The study identify land management practices as Land clearing (̅ =2.7); Ridging (̅ =2.2), Weeding (̅ =1.3), Fertilizer application (̅ =2.0), Shifting cultivation (̅ =2.0), Bush fallowing (̅ =2.1), Irrigation (̅ =1.9), Ploughing (̅ =2.0), Crop rotation (̅ =1.8), Harrowing (̅ =1.8), were adopted by arable crop farmers with grand mean (1.9) which was lower than the decision cutoff point of 2.0 on a 3-point rating scale which implies that the level of farm management practices adoption was low. The results shows the Constraints toward Farmland Management Practices among arable crop farmers means: Cost of farm operation (̅ =2.6); Technical know-how (̅ =2.7), Extension visits (̅ =1.9), Land size (̅ =2.9), Farm Labour (̅ =2.6), Illiteracy level (̅ =1.5), Type of cropping (̅ =2.9) Technology adoption (̅ =2.7) Conflicts (̅ =2.0) limited capital (̅ =3.2). The result Constraints toward Farmland Management Practices among rural farmers was the same as the decision cutoff point of 2.5 on a 4-point rating scale. However, the government and relevant agencies should be proactive in creating public enlightenment on how to improve the quality of farmland management practices currently adopted. More farmer associations should be formed for collection, distribution and utilization of agricultural inputs that will further enhance soil fertility.

2024, Perspectives and Applications

Java is very densely populated since it is inhabited by more than 60% of the total population of Indonesia. Based on data from the Ministry of Forestry, forest loss between 2000-2005 in Java was about 800,000 hectares. Regardless of the debate on whether the different methodologies of forest inventory applied in 2005 have resulted in an underestimation of the figure of forest loss or not, the decrease of forest cover in Java is obvious and needs immediate response. Spatial modeling of the deforestation will assist the policy makers in understanding this process and in taking it into consideration, when decisions are made on the issue. Moreover, the results can be used as data input to solve environmental problems resulting from deforestation. The authors of this chapter modeled the deforestation in Java by using logistic regression. Percentage of deforested area was considered as the response variable, whilst biophysical and socioeconomic factors, that explain the current spatial pa...

2024, LSN: Real Property Rights (Topic)

The land grabbing issue has produced a plethora of debates ranging from ethical conduct of land grabbing agents, specifically concerning displacement, to evidence for and against positive externalities such as technological spill-overs and construction of infrastructure. An underexplored topic is the valuation of agricultural land and the compensatory payments made to land users, distinct from land owners, for the loss of their source of food security. This paper establishes a theoretical framework for the valuation of agricultural land from the perspective of land users, based on a household production function. For the analysis data were collected in a survey of 203 households in the land grab affected area in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone during 2013. It shows that, for the case of a specific land grab in Sierra Leone, the compensatory payments received by land users are far below the value of the land lost and as such the lease income is unable to allow these households ...

2024

Jaerlandskapet er under press fra mange ulike interesser og noen av de tydeligste 'kampene' som utkjempes i dette landskapet er knyttet til jordvern, utbygging/infrastruktur-tiltak og etablering av vindkraftanlegg. Hvordan framstilles... more

2024

This volume presents the results of five years' research on the processes of the propertisation of culture that have been carried out by the Research Unit 772 on The Constitution of Cultural Property (speaker: Regina Bendix), sponsored by the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). 1 Our research focused on the certification and heritisation of culture (nominations and listing of tangible and intangible UNESCO World Heritages) during the first three years. Since 2011, we have been investigating how "culture", or more specifically adat (concepts of traditional ways of life and values), is shaped and deployed by various actors in Indonesia to define their identities, reclaim rights and property, and reposition themselves in the multi-ethnic state of Indonesia since the fall of the Suharto regime (1998). A workshop entitled "Adat between state governance and self-determined indigeneity in Indonesia" was held at Göttingen University in October 2011. The preliminary results of the most recent anthropological research on adat or rather on "indigeneity" in Indonesia were presented by scholars at this workshop, including our much-valued research fellow from Jakarta, Fadjar Ibnu Thufail, from the Göttingen projects, and also by a scholar from Bonn University. Since the struggles for recognition of a special adat particularly of "indigenous groups" in Indonesia can only be understood against 1 The research on which the chapter by Steinebach is based was carried out during a project within the Collaborative Research Centre 990, "Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)", also based at Göttingen University. 4 Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin the background of international conventions and aid programmes for the promotion of indigenous peoples, two scholars from the International Law Department of Göttingen University (Katja Göcke and Maria Victoria Cabrera Ormaza) were invited, as well as the well-known Indonesian lawyer and indigenous peoples activist, Sandra Moniaga, to present their perspective on the issue of indigeneity. The present volume mirrors this anthropological-international law cooperation and exchange of views on indigeneity. We are grateful that two lawyers from Indonesia, Yance Arizona and Erasmus Cahyadi, wrote an insightful paper on the current state of affairs on a special law on indigenous peoples in Indonesia. Francesca Merlan, the renowned anthropologist from the National University in Canberra and an expert on "indigeneity", spent a month as a Fellow of the Research Unit at Göttingen in June 2013. We all benefitted tremendously from her lectures, the comments she gave on earlier versions of several chapters and her insights. She has written an Epilogue to the volume from an encompassing, comparative perspective. I would like to thank her for writing this important chapter, for her commitment and the fruitful discussions we had in a very friendly and relaxed atmosphere. This research only took place with the great help of our research partners in Indonesia: the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) in Jakarta as a counterpart, and especially the Alliance of Indigenous Peoples (AMAN) and its General Secretary, Abdon Nababan, the non-governmental organisations (NGOs), particularly the Samdhana Institute and several other NGOs and their representatives, as well as the many adat communities in different provinces in Indonesia. All of these allowed and helped the anthropologists to carry out their research. We would like to express our gratitude to all of them. Terima kasih banyak! All this work would not have been possible without the sponsors. I would like to thank first and foremost the German Research Council for generously sponsoring all the research projects mentioned, the Volkswagen Foundation (Volkswagen Stiftung), Hannover, for supporting the workshop in 2012, and also the Volkswagen Stiftung and the Ministry for Science and Culture of the Federal State of Lower Saxony and Göttingen University for the research professorship (Niedersachsenprofessur) they granted me. It is thanks to this professorship and its endowment that many complementary journeys, additional research, meetings, the temporary employment of additional research staff and assistants, as well as this publication became possible.

2024, LSN: Real Property Rights (Topic)

2024, Revista de Administração Contemporânea

RESUMO Objetivo: este artigo tecnológico apresenta uma técnica empregada na análise de atas de conselhos deliberativos e de suas variáveis para apoiar a reflexão sobre o design institucional de conselhos voltados à governança participativa empoderada. Método: utilizou-se a análise descritiva para apresentar o processo heurístico de criação da técnica de pesquisa e de operacionalização de variáveis selecionadas a partir do estudo de caso mencionado, identificando aspectos da análise documental, da análise de conteúdo categorial das atas e da tradução quali-quantitativa das variáveis identificadas. Resultados: a técnica de decomposição binária se mostrou útil na identificação de variáveis operacionais a partir da análise das atas de reuniões de conselhos deliberativos que podem auxiliar na produção de diagnóstico conciso sobre aspectos do design institucional de conselhos e da participação deliberativa de comunidades tradicionais. Conclusão: o artigo contribui para a ampliação da dime...

2024, Revista de Administração Contemporânea

Objective: this technological article presents a research technique used in the analysis of deliberative decision-making processes reports and their related variables to provide insights for institutional design analysis for an empowered participatory governance. Method: a descriptive analysis was used to articulate a viable heuristic of creation of a research technique for the operationalization of selected variables from a previously concluded case study, identifying aspects of document analysis, coding content analysis, and qualitative-quantitative translation strategies. Results: an adapted binary decomposition technique proved to be useful in the identification of operational variables from the analysis of the decision-making processes reports that can contribute to the production of concise diagnosis on relevant aspects of the institutional design of community councils and its role for the participation of traditional communities in their decisions. Conclusion: this article co...

2024, Sustainability

The Icelandic economy has transitioned from being dependent on fishing and agriculture to having tourism and refined aluminum as its main exports. Nevertheless, the new main industries still rely on the country's natural resources, as the power intensive industry uses energy from rivers and geothermal areas whereas tourism uses the natural landscape, where geysers, waterfalls and thermal pools are part of the attraction to visitors. Although both industries claim to contribute to sustainability they utilize the same resources, and land-use conflicts can be expected, illustrating the contestation that can occur between different visions and understandings of sustainability. This paper focuses on the attitudes of Icelandic tourism operators towards power production and proposed power plants using data from questionnaires and face-to-face interviews. Results show that the majority of Icelandic tourism operators assume further power utilization would be in conflict with nature-based tourism, and they are generally negative towards all types of renewable energy development and power plant infrastructure. Respondents are most negative towards transmission lines, reservoirs and hydro power plants in the country's interior Highlands. About 40% of the respondents perceive that existing power plants have negatively affected tourism, while a similar proportion think they had no impact. According to the respondents, the two industries could co-exist with improved spatial planning, management and inter-sectoral cooperation.

2024

Notre projet de recherche porte sur les tensions qui emergent entre differents acteurs et differents usages des espaces ruraux. L'idee de depart consiste a etudier les caracteristiques et les eventuelles modalites de denouement des tensions (ou conflits), et a examiner en quoi les services environnementaux (entendus comme des operations sur des biens de nature pour ameliorer leur qualite environnementale) peuvent permettre d'assurer la reparation, la prevention ou la gestion des tensions. (Resume d'auteur)

2024, Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development

Sunflower is a crop with high oil and economic values which portends its great potential for enhancing agricultural productivity and poverty alleviation among smallholder farmers. These notwithstanding, optimum benefit of the sunflower value chain have not been adequately harnessed. Conceived with the backdrop of lack of awareness about the commercial, nutritional and medicinal potentials of sunflower among the rural farm families, the study assessed the utilisation of sunflower among smallholder farmers in two southwestern states (Ogun and Ekiti) of Nigeria, and two districts (southeast and Kgatleng) of Botswana in sub-Saharan Africa. A total of two hundred smallholder farmers were randomly chosen from four purposively selected farming communities in southwestern Nigeria and Botswana districts. Results showed that 49 and 84% of the respondents were aware about the sunflower crop in Nigeria and Botswana, respectively, while only 10 and 25% cultivated the crop, respectively. The results further showed that all those (25%) who cultivated the crop in Botswana utilised it as animal feed only, while their Nigerian counterpart utilised it for variety of purposes. While 6 and 7% utilised it as animal feed and manure/fertiliser production, respectively, in Nigeria, 2, 5 and 8%, respectively, used it for cake/snack production, and traditional and ornamental purposes. Yet, another 6% cultivated the sunflower crop for seed oil extraction. The study concluded that, although, higher proportion of smallholder farmers from Botswana knew about and cultivated the sunflower crop, yet, their Nigeria counterpart utilised the crop more. The need for continuous popularization of the production and utilisation of sunflower crop among smallholder farmers was therefore recommended in both Bostwana and Nigeria.

2024, Biodiversity and Ecology

2023, LSN: Real Property Rights (Topic)

2023

In the countryside of Cordoba, secular and intense agricultural space, certain endorheic wetlands of varied physical characteristics are located. In any case, several common features can be emphasized: landscape quality, ecological relevance (primarily aquatic birds) and the continuous interaction between ecosystems and the surrounding rural lands. This has justified the protection of the most outstanding wetlands, being declared as Nature Reserves. This paper sets out the main keys of the transition from agricultural area to protected area, and the grounds of the protection applied in order to achieve the desirable -and not always easy-compatibility between conservation and the proper deve/opment of traditional agricultural uses

2023

Le chapître IV est co-rédigé en anglais par Hai-Vu Pham, Arnaud Simon et André Torre. La thèse étudie l’opposition des riverains à des projets d’aménagement de l’espace. Elle défend la vision selon laquelle cette dimension conflictuelle, fréquemment rencontrée lors de la réalisation des projets d’infrastructure, n’est pas un état de dysfonctionnement à éviter dans le processus décisionnel. Composée de 4 essais qui traitent le phénomène sous différents angles, elle évoque les points principaux suivants. Les outils d’aide à la décision, dont le calcul économique public et diverses procédures de concertation, ne permettent pas d’aboutir à des décisions parfaites et incontestables. La géographie des conflits est fortement corrélée à celle de l’urbanisation et les opposants mettent en doute le principe de l’utilité publique. Le marché immobilier n’est pas indifférent aux signaux de nuisance des futurs projets, ainsi qu’à la lutte organisée des associations locales. Ainsi, la thèse soutie...

2023, Économie rurale

Les conflits d'usage dans les espaces ruraux et périurbains. Le cas des infrastructures franciliennes Land-Use Conflicts in Agricultural and Periurban Areas.

2023, Ecology and Society

2023, Global Environmental Change

Small islands are characterised by geographic isolation, strong place attachment, and vulnerabilities to social, economic, and ecological changes. They are often subject to development activities that raise concerns about impacts on multiple land-and seascape values. This study elicits a range of land-and seascape values, development preferences, and land-use conflicts in a Northern Atlantic islands setting. We do so by linking participatory mapping with narrative analysis techniques to elicit landscape values and development preferences and to identify the potential for land-use conflicts. Four narratives were illustrative of human-nature relationships in the North Atlantic, revealing a great appreciation for wildlife and landforms, for peaceful and undisturbed ecosystems, for open access to land and sea, and for people being part of nature as major themes. The overlay of mapped landscape values and development preferences identified areas with a high potential for future land-use conflicts. Tourism development had a particularly high potential for conflicts. The local narratives on development activitiestourism, renewable energy, and fish farming/processingconfirmed diverging viewpoints. Respondents acknowledged the need for new economic opportunities that may create employment and wealth, but were concerned about negative effects for nature and society and the perceived inability to govern these developments. We argue that planning for multiple landscape values and preferences is crucial to manage the potential for trade-offs in land-and seascape development that is influenced by a range of pressures and drivers of change. Geographic isolation implies that small island societies have traditionally relied on local ecosystem services of the land and the sea. In the past and in part until today, many islands had very intensive forms of subsistence agriculture and extremely small-scale field patterns. Often, crop cultivation has been carried out on sites that would be considered too marginal for agriculture elsewhere. Marine and coastal ecosystem services (in particular, fish stocks) typically complemented agriculture and acted as a safety valve (Renes, 2014). At the same time, small islands are connected to the outer world by trade, although they often suffer from competitive disadvantage because of lesser economies of scale and longer transport times. Also, they are strongly dependent on relationships and support from mainland policies and economies

2023, Izvestia of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Sociology. Politology

в статье рассматривается мобилизационная готовность населения как социальное качество, которое в силу эскалации вызовов социотехникоприродного характера становится, по мнению авторов, необходимым элементом повседневности. на примере крупномасштабных лесных пожаров 2010 года показаны реальные практики поведения населения и служб, ответственных за его безопасность в экстремальных ситуациях. Ключевые слова: субъекты природопользования, конфликт интересов, волонтеры, сельское население, мобилизационный потенциал.

2023, Ecology and Society

2023, Land

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY

2023, International Review of Social History

2023

A multidisciplinary journal of global macro trends Research of modern forms of communication between business and universities in Russia

2023, Open access journal of agricultural research

This study examined the effect of land access and land use conflict on crop commercialization of smallholder farmers in Southwest Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was used in selecting 300 respondents and primary data were collected using structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Land Market Index (LMI), Land Use Conflict Index (LUCI), Crop Commercialization Index (CCI) and Tobit regression model. Majority (95.3%) of the farmers were male, natives (81.3%), and married (97.3%) with an average household size of 9 persons. Also, 69.3% had formal education and an average of 24 years of farming experience. Majority (78.0%) of the farmers had their total landholding through non-market means (inheritance, borrowed and gift), 14.0% acquired their total landholding through market means (purchase, rent and lease), and the mean LMI was 0.16(±0.35), showing farmers had access to 16% of farmlands through market participation. Farmers were coping with conflict on majority (90.4%) of their landholdings and 95.2% of conflicts could be attributed to competition for natural resources, especially farmer-herder clashes (94.2%). The mean LUCI was 0.91(±0.27), implying farmers experienced conflicts on 91% of farmlands. Mean commercialization of maize, cassava and yam were 84.19%(±16.0), 84.01%(±16.67) and 61.42%(±24.83), respectively, indicating that the crops driving commercialization were maize and cassava. Tobit regression results indicated that farm size, presence of local market and LMI significantly (P<0.01) increase commercialization. In conclusion, extent of land market participation significantly increases commercialization while land use conflict reduces crop commercialization, although not significantly. Policy efforts should be intensified with a view to facilitating land access by farming households through market participation, and also reducing or resolving all arable land use and related resource use conflict.

2023, MOJ ecology & environmental sciences

This study examined the relationship between land acquisition and crop market participation among farmers in peri-urban areas of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select 200 respondents. Data were collected using structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Land Ownership Index (LOI), Crop Market Participation Index (CMPI) and Tobit regression model. Majority (77.5%) of the crop farmers were male, married (80.5%), natives (71.0%), and had an average household size of 7. Also, 81.0% of the respondents had formal education and on the average, famers had 29 years of farming experience. The existing means of plot acquisition were inheritance (53.4%)-the most common, gift (2.6%), purchase (9.0%), rent (20.1%) and lease (14.9%). The prominent transaction-based land acquisition was rent (45.7%) while that of non-transaction based acquisition was inheritance (95.4%). The average plot size was 2.1hectares and most (53.5%) of the farmers had full ownership of their total land holding (LOI=1). The cultivation methods adopted by farmers were mixed cropping (79.0%), monocropping (12.3%), intercropping (7.3%) and shifting cultivation (1.4%). The household CMPI was found to be 64.1% and maize was the major crop driving market participation with CMPI of 84.7%. The Tobit regression results indicated that at p<0.05, sex, years of education, farming experience and use of improved maize planting material had positive effects on crop market participation. However, land ownership index (p<0.1) had negative effect on crop market participation, implying that land ownership did not translate to crop market participation. Policy effort aimed at making farmers, both natives and non-natives, to acquire land through transactions (rent and lease) will be a potent tool in increasing crop production, thereby also increasing their crop market participation.