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The report by the Urban Agriculture Magazine draws on numerous case studies from around the world in discussing issues of availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture.Rapid urbanisation has lead to an increasing demand for urban agricultural land.
This paper explores and evaluates the impact of a new form of large-scale agriculture which is becoming an increasing phenomenon in southern Burkina Faso.
This paper analyses the relation between demographic transformation, agricultural transformation and land-use pressure within a simple agrarian economy, where population is treated both as a cause and consequence of economic changes.Conclusions of the paper include:population growth and food prod
This document reports on a workshop held in South Africa in June 2003 to address continuing insecurity of women's land rights.
Cartilha de Prevenção de Despejos - Práticas e instrumentos de resistência aos despejos Centro de Direitos Econômicos e Sociais CDES Direitos Humanos Apoio Fundação Ford Ano da publicação - 2013
We use the location set covering problem to define a natural area site selection model for use in the Chicago region.
In the 1990's, urban demand for housing land around city-agglomerations increased rapidly. Additionally, the decreasing profitability of agricultural production caused farmers, who are able to freely decide on land turnover, to be interested in land sale for non-agricultural purposes.
At the beginning of the transition, the economic decline of agriculture partially relaxed the pressure on the wildlife. However, the policy continued to concentrate on regulating the intensity of production rather then creating incentives to produce environmental qualities.