Land tenure and carbon rights constitute critical issues to take into account in achieving emission reductions, ensuring transparent benefit sharing and determining non-permanence (or non-compliance) liabilities in the context of REDD+ strategies and projects. This is so because tenure systems influence who becomes involved in efforts to avoid deforestation and improve forest management, and th...

Women's land rights are increasingly put forth as a means to promote development by empowering women, increasing productivity, and improving welfare. However, little empirical research has evaluated these claims. This paper uses the 2001 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey to explore whether women's land rights empower women and benefit young children's health in Nepal. The results provide supp...

— Agriculture made major contributions to China’s growth and poverty reduction, but the literature has rarely focused on the institutional factors that might underpin such structural transformation and productivity. Drawing on an 8-year panel of 1,200 households in six provinces, we find that land tenure insecurity, measured by past land reallocations, discourages households from quitting agric...

In the past, the human rights agenda lacked persuasive power over international development practitioners for two main reasons: 1) human rights are inherently political and therefore threaten the acceptance of international development agendas by recipient governments, and 2) human rights are not conducive to benchmarks and indicators, which donors require as measures of accountability, transpa...

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R1170 Current Biology 26, R1167–R1176, November 21, 2016 for the Science of Human History at Jena, Germany (Science (2016) 354, 268–269). The last surviving groups of tropical forest tribes are currently facing the threat of extinction due to the ongoing destruction of their forests (Curr. Biol. (2015) 25, R635–R638). Linking their plight to the need to conserve forests to combat climate change...