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Displaying 51 - 60 of 129Just Transition Open Agenda May 2022
From 24 to 26 November 2020, the three organisations comprising the Life After Coal campaign, Earthlife Africa (Johannesburg), the Centre for Environmental Rights and ground Work, met virtually to develop a shared Open Agenda on the Just Transition. We used the Open Agenda for a Just Transition - developed at the National Coal Exchange in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, in July 2019 - as a starting point.
Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015
Unequal exchange theory posits that economic growth in the “advanced economies” of the global North relies on a large net appropriation of resources and labour from the global South, extracted through price differentials in international trade. Past attempts to estimate the scale and value of this drain have faced a number of conceptual and empirical limitations, and have been unable to capture the upstream resources and labour embodied in traded goods.
Scratching the surface: Tracing coloured gemstone flows from Mozambique and Malawi to Asia
This paper provides an overview of the supply chains and flows that run from the mines of northern Mozambique and Malawi, to the international trade hubs of Sri Lanka and Thailand. Analysis of the political and economic environment in which mining and trading take place gives a contextual understanding of gemstone flows both within and out of the region as well as the various actors involved.
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Data Compatibility in Linking Land Degradation and Tenure Security
This data story investigates the challenges to align action on land degradation and tenure security based on the screening of available datasets in both domains.
The Voluntary Guidelines: A Data Deficit? (PDF version)
This is the PDF version of an online data story about the impacts of the VGGT, published by Land Portal on 4 October 2022.
Three territorial disputes you may not have heard of
Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, this What to Read digest reviews three articles that explore different, lesser-known territorial disputes - all of them in Asia.
Os desafios da construção da nação angolana: passado, presente e futuro
Apresentação feita durante a Conferência Episcopal de Angola e São Tomé. Inclui explicações sobre a classificação de terrenos em Angola, o significado de terra na legislação fundiária e na cultura angolana, a matrix de governança de terras, os desafios para a proteção de territórios tradicionais, entre outros temas. Apresentação feita por Bernardo Castro.
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A Story about Maize: Tracing a value chain from land-use to supermarket shelf
This Land Portal data story looks at the increase of maize production in and around Thailand, and its relation to a poultry value chain as an ingredient in animal feed.