Land tenure
- Will legislation disempower pastoralists in the Sahel?
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Guinea, Mauritania, Mali, and Burkina Faso have all passed specific legislation in support of pastoralism. This paper reports that while some of these laws provide an improved framework for the management of rangelands and greater tenure security for pastoralists, they contain conceptual and practical problems which may ultimately further marginalise pastoral people. The authors find that pastoralists must develop “leverage” to improve policy and legislation in support of pastoralism.
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Institutional challenges for wetland management in Sierra Leone
- ( R. Maconachie / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester , 2008)
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Sierra Leone has recently emerged from a long period of political instability and civil war, and is ranked among the world’s poorest countries. Thousands of displaced people are in the proces...
- Understanding the effects of pro-poor land laws in Africa
- ( K. Deininger;D. A. Ali;S. Holden / World Bank , 2007)
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Although many African countries have adopted highly innovative and pro-poor land laws, lack of implementation hinders their potentially far-reaching impact on productivity, poverty reduction, and g...
How can agriculture be made to work for the poor?
- ( M. Prowse;A. Chimhowu / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI , 2007)
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This paper looks at the links between poverty, agriculture and land, reporting on panel data analysis in five countries – Vietnam, Uganda, India, Nicaragua and Ethiopia. It suggests that thre...
- The impact of land rights denial on communal farmers in Angola
- ( P. Filipe / Landrightswatch.net , 2005)
- What are the dynamics of land tenure in the CAS (Conda, Ambuim, and Sumbe) area in Angola? What are its opportunities and risks? This paper reveals a denial of land access rights to communal farmers, ...
- Genuine land reform programme required in the Phillipines
- ( Philippine Institute for Development Studies , 2007)
- Possession of vast lands is a major representation of wealth in the Philippines - a privilege enjoyed largely by the ruling class since the colonial era. This ownership of huge tracts of land has resu...
- Promised land: a key to reducing poverty in rural Uganda
- ( J.H. Ainembabazi / Economic Policy Research Centre, Uganda , 2007)
- Rising poverty in rural Uganda is linked to increasing landlessness, as the latter drives land degradation and reduces agricultural productivity. This paper examines the complex relationship between o...
- Land tenure as a human rights issue: evidence from South Africa
- ( P. Wisborg / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences , 2007)
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Secure access to resources is now recognised in human rights discourse as a universal condition of human well-being. This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical and empirical understanding of ...
- Livelihood diversification in Ethiopian pastoral communities
- ( K. Gemtessa;E. Bezabih;W. Tiki / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences , 2007)
- This paper analyses the livelihoods of the Borana pastoral communities of Southern Oromiya in Ethiopia. It aims to inform policy makers, donors, and development practitioners about the best strategies...
- Land reform and land rights in Africa: which way forward?
- ( J. Quan; S. Tan; C. Toulmin / Human Settlements Programme , 2004)
- This document summarises the proceedings from a conference organised by International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) , Natural Resource insitute (NRI) and the Royal African Society i...
- Effective legal protection for land rights in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire
- ( R. Crook; S. Affou; D. Hammond; A.F. Vanga; M Owusu Yeboah / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2007)
- This paper provides an analysis of the effectiveness and equitability of West African judicial, legal and administrative institutions for:providing accessible dispute resolutionprotecting ...
