Land use

Rights-based claims in the extractive sector

SEI brief / This brief gives an overview of how actors engage with rights-based approaches in South and Southeast Asia.

Mapping three decades of changes in the Brazilian savanna native vegetation using Landsat data processed in the Google Earth Engine platform

Journal article / Read an assessment of 30 years of change to native vegetation in Brazil's Cerrado.

Rights-based claims and extractive industries in Asia: an assessment and ways forward

SEI working paper / Read a literature review of rights-based claims against extractive industries in Asia.

Why land restoration is key to sustainable prosperity and how to set it on track

Feature / SEI’s Toby Gardner and fellow IPBES researchers outline a 10-pillar strategy for the effective protection and restoration of land.

Bioenergy in Kenya: Making tea production sustainable

Media coverage / Rocio Diaz Chaves, Deputy Centre Director at SEI Africa featured by Deutsche Welle (DW) in a short movie about biofuel from sugarcane waste.

How to halt the global decline of lands

Journal article / Land degradation around the world shows no signs of abating. This article sets out 10 broad strategies for protecting and restoring land.

Soybean supply chain management and sustainability: A systematic literature review

Journal article / A review of existing literature to identify key themes or topics and to develop a conceptual framework to guide future research.

Effectiveness of ecotechnologies in agriculture for the recovery and reuse of carbon and nutrients in the Baltic and boreo-temperate regions: a systematic map

Journal article / Review of evidence on the effectiveness of ecotechnologies that recover and reuse carbon and/or nutrients in the Baltic Sea region and comparable areas.

Climate action and land use – opportunities and risk

Past event / To limit global temperatures’ increase to 1.5°C a major shift towards sustainable land use is required.