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Integrating Marginalized Neighborhoods into Cities: Tomorrow‘s Challenge

Urban growth is spreading mainly in the cities of the South, and the populations of marginalized neighborhoods are expected to double and reach 2 billion in 2030. It is unrealistic to imagine a future...

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Published on November 1, 2014

The agrarian question in South Africa

The end of apartheid and Nelson Mandela’s election as President of the Republic turned a page in the history of South Africa. In 1994, some 60,000 (white) farmers held around 87 million hectares of la...

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Published on April 1, 2014

Securing pastoral mobility in Sahel

Pastoralism has long been regarded as archaic, but recent research shows that pastoral systems can effectively exploit the characteristic instability of dryland ecosystems and make productive use of t...

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Published on May 1, 2014

Agriculture, Forests and Climate Change: Can Labelling Play a Part?

In the 2009 summit in Copenhagen, the international community agreed to mitigate climate change by assuring that global temperature will not increase more than 2°C between the pre-industrial period (1...

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Published on February 1, 2015

Agricultural Credit: Assessing the Use of Interest Rate Subsidies

Since the beginning of the 20th century, interest rate subsidies have been one of the tools used all around the world for developing agriculture, especially by major agricultural countries such as Fra...

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Published on February 1, 2015

Cities in Climate Change Mitigation Policy

Based on an in-depth review of scientific and institutional literature, this document seeks to identify what urban measures contribute efficiently to low-carbon urban development. It focuses on the co...

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Published on March 1, 2015

Facing Water Scarcity in the Mediterranean

Pressure on water resources has reached critical levels in many countries in the Mediterranean Basin. Sophisticated water mobilization strategies have been implemented but physical, financial and envi...

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Published on March 1, 2015

Overextraction of Groundwater Resources: What Are The Solutions?

The amount of water extracted from aquifers worldwide has increased threefold in the past fifty years, leading to an aggravated overdraft of these common resources. This “pumping race” brings about ma...

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Published on March 1, 2015