Global mapping efforts to date have relied on vague and oversimplified definitions of “abandoned” agricultural land which results in overestimates the area that is likely support persistent increases forest cover associated carbon sequestration. We propose a new conceptualization abandoned incorporates changes landholding status over time into determining whether should be considered as abandon...

Early-modern improvement writers thought that most of the land within royal forests was not exploited to its full potential and argued that conversion to cultivation would render that land more productive and its inhabitants more industrious.1 During the first four decades of the seventeenth century various improvement projects were thrust upon the community at Duffield (Derbyshire), culminatin...

This paper studies TRAIL, a variation on traditional microfinance, where a microfinance institution appoints local intermediaries (traders or informal moneylenders) as agents to recommend borrowers for individual liability loans. Agents earn commissions that depend on loan repayments. There are no peer monitoring, group meetings or savings requirements. The loans are designed to finance agricul...

This article investigates the ways in which Lucy Hutchinson’s manuscript verse draws on pastoral and related modes frequently associated with royalist poetics. It situates her approach context of awareness tensions over private landholding during Civil War period, suggesting that both looks back nostalgically to an ideal elite landownership recognises challenges presented by popular democratic ...

Well-implemented and functioning land administration systems are able to improve the wellbeing of rural households support achievement UN Sustainable Development Goals. As cadastral data an essential part a modern system for documenting securing boundaries parcels, Ethiopia recently embarked on one largest surveying programs registration in Africa. Cadastral provided by office woreda were analy...

Agriculture is an integral constituent of Pakistan’s economy and the primary source livelihood for nearly 65% population living in rural areas. Rice second major staple food after wheat a significant foreign exchange earnings through Basmati exports. Pakistan has established extensive network agricultural extension to educate farming community about modern practices enhancing productivity crops...