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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- Successes and faillures of a rural towns project in Malawi
- ( P. Kishindo / Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi , 2006)
- In the late 1960s the Malawi government established irrigated settlement schemes throughout the country with the goal of promoting the production of rice for export to raise farmers' incomes. A supple...
- Land rights of rural communties in Angola
- ( E. Jul-Larsen;B.E. Bertelsen / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2011)
- A new Land Act introduced in Angola in 2004 demonstrates a genuine interest in the protection of the customary land rights of rural communities and underlines rural communities’ rights to their ...
- How security of tenure and the distribution of property rights affect land disputes
- ( S.T. Holden;K. Deininger;H. Ghebru / Norwegian University of Life Sciences , 2011)
- This paper assesses factors related to local land border conflicts and how low cost land registration and certification has affected land conflicts during and after land registration and certification...
- Land tenure and transfers in Uganda
- ( A. Tatwangire;S.T. Holden / Norwegian University of Life Sciences , 2011)
- This article estimates the poverty reducing impact of the recent land reforms and land transfers in the different land tenure systems of Uganda. Using balanced panel data for 309 households in 2001, 2...
- The caste system and land rights in Nepal
- ( J.P. Aryal and Stein T. Holden;S.T. Holden / Norwegian University of Life Sciences , 2011)
- The caste system is an intricate part of the institutional structure as well as class formation, political instability and conflicts in Nepal. The most severely discriminated group in the caste system...
- Risks threatening Chinese households decrease participation in migration
- ( P.S. Ward;G.E. Shively / AgEcon Search , 2011)
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Households in developing countries take various actions to smooth income or consumption as a means of managing or responding to risk. This paper examines migration and land rental market participat...
- Journal debating pastoralism issues
- ( C. Kerven (ed);R. Behnke (ed) / Odessa Centre , 2010)
- Open access journal aimed at providing a central forum where those concerned with pastoralism can confront each other’s ideas, data and analysis, and discuss the implications of their work. Past...
- The need to grow cash crops has a negative effect on deforestation
- ( B. Mkwara;D. Marsh / Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato , 2009)
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Deforestation arising from conversion of forest areas into agriculture is a serious problem in Malawi. This paper discusses competition for agricultural land and investigates why the poor are close...
- Do land markets contribute to poverty reduction?
- ( A. Tatwangire;S. T. Holden / Norwegian University of Life Sciences , 2009)
- This paper estimates the poverty reducing impact of land access in rural Uganda. The paper firstly states that land acquired through markets or otherwise may play an important role for rural household...
- What are the impacts of land registration in Ethiopia?
- ( K. Deininger;D. A. Ali;T. Alemu / Norwegian University of Life Sciences , 2009)
- While early attempts at land titling in Africa were unsuccessful, factors such as new legislation, low-cost methods, and increasing demand for land have generated renewed interest. This paper aims to ...
