a blockchain based solution towards net zero individuals and sustainable land distribution
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Small-scale farming remains the main means of food production globally, and the world’s rural populations depend heavily on local land and natural resources and self-subsistence
The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush Author: Jampel Dell’Angelo; Paolo D’Odorico; Maria Cristina Rullie; Philippe Marchanda. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X15310445
More than 2.5 billion people from Indigenous Peoples and local communities live on and manage more than 50% of the world’s land area through customary or traditional systems, including some of the most important and biodiverse forest areas in the world.
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THIS ACCOUNTS FOR 300,000 MILLION METRIC TONS OF CARBON IN THEIR TREES AND SOIL MANAGED BY THESE COMMUNITIES
https://rightsandresources.org/en/publication/globalcarbonbaseline2018
HOWEVER,
ACCORDING TO THE INTERNATIONAL LAND COALITION (ILC) AROUND THE WORLD, 26.7 MILLION HECTARES OF AGRICULTURAL LAND HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED INTO THE HANDS OF FOREIGN INVESTORS SINCE THE YEAR 2000.
Despite existing laws that secure their rights, the(se communities) have formal legal ownership of only 10% of this land, with some degree of government-recognised management rights over an additional 8%.
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Empirical evidence has shown that sustainable governance of the commons is possible (Agrawal, 2001) and has highlighted the positive socio-environmental features of these systems, including reduction of the negative environmental effects of social inequality (Andersson & Agrawal, 2011), perdurability of natural resources (Agrawal, 2001, Berkes et al., 1989, Cox et al., 2010), food security (Barham and Chitemi, 2009, Béné et al., 2007), irrigation effectiveness (Lam, 1999), institutional stability, and maintained ownership of land (Deveroux, 2001).
One of the characteristics of the success of common-property systems is that local communities can develop governing arrangements that are congruent with local conditions (Ostrom, 1990). Traditional communities that depend directly on the land and its resources have ethical beliefs that promote environmental stewardship (Callicott, 1989, Chapin et al., 2010) and often develop adaptive management practices based on traditional ecological knowledge that can be more resilient to social and environmental disturbances (Berkes, Folke, & Colding, 2000). However, common-property systems might not have the institutional and political instruments to deal with the dynamics of private LSLAs and transnational land investments (De Schutter, 2011a, D’Odorico and Rulli, 2014, Wily, 2011a, Wily, 2011b).
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The Role of Blockchain in Documenting Land Users' Rights: The Canonical Case of Farmers in the Vernacular Land Market : https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2020.00019/full
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UCL CBT DLT in Land Registry White Paper - Towards a distributed ledger of residential title deeds in the UK
http://blockchain.cs.ucl.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/HMLR-White-Paper.pdf
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The Role of Blockchain in Documenting Land Users' Rights: The Canonical Case of Farmers in the Vernacular Land Market :
HEALING THE PLANET BY SECURING LAND RIGHTS
UN DECADE ON ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION
INTERNATIONAL LAND COALITION
LAND MATRIX INITIATIVE
WARD ANSEEUW
UCL CBT DLT in Land Registry White Paper - Towards a distributed ledger of residential title deeds in the UK
http://blockchain.cs.ucl.ac.uk/dlt-land-registry-white-paper/
