Clouded titles to land in remote rural areas of the Global South have recently prevented increases in agricultural productivity and payments for environmental services (PES), so making land tenure more secure has become a priority for policymakers. The historical dynamics surrounding land tenure transitions suggest a strategy for reform. Colonial regimes stripped indigenous peoples of most rights to land. Newly independent states restored these rights for some smallholders through land reforms. Later, neo-liberal regimes made secure titles more expensive, and, in so doing, made insecure land tenure more pervasive. Spots of secure land tenure did emerge when indigenous groups, with outside support, resisted efforts by powerful outsiders to expropriate indigenous homelands. Because insecure land tenure persists in most forested rural areas, a focus on afforestation in deforested areas, where earlier episodes of reform secured smallholder land tenure, offers a promising direction for future PES and REDD+ (Re...

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全球南方的土地权属转变：趋势、驱动因素和政策影响

全球南方偏远农村地区的土地所有权最近阻碍了农业生产力和环境服务支付 (PES) 的提高，因此使土地保有权更安全已成为政策制定者的优先事项。围绕土地使用权过渡的历史动态表明了一种改革策略。殖民政权剥夺了土著人民的大部分土地权利。新独立的州通过土地改革恢复了一些小农的这些权利。后来，新自由主义政权使有保障的产权更加昂贵，并因此使无保障的土地保有权更加普遍。当土著群体在外部支持下抵制强大的外来者征用土著家园的努力时，确实出现了有保障的土地使用权。由于大多数森林覆盖的农村地区持续存在不安全的土地保有权，