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    Property and prosperity: reforming landholding in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016
    How Africans access – or ‘own’ – their landholdings is a matter of profound importance for the continent’s future. It touches on social welfare as well as prospects for economic development. This policy briefing provides an overview of the land question, drawing heavily on the Country Review Reports (CRRs) of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).
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    Reimagining India’s Urban Future: A framework for securing high-growth, low-carbon, climate resilient urban development in India

    Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2015
    This paper reviews the current state of the literature on Indian urbanisation to analyse existing urban development trajectories at the state level.
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    The search for a model land legislation: the new land bill and its challenges

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2011
    The draft Indian Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on September 7, 2011 is one of the most important legislations waiting for Parliamentary approval. In its present form, the bill is a major improvement over the archaic 1894 land law that has contributed to the impasse over land acquisitions across the country.
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    Land grabbing in Latin America: opportunity or threat?

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2014
    In Latin America, government interventions in land grabbing processes provide some preliminary lessons on dealing with this phenomenon, while highlighting some serious threats.
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    Peru’s deadly environment: the rise in killings of environmental and land defenders

    Global Witness, 2014
    The world’s attention was be on Peru December 2014, as governments from 195 countries convened in the capital Lima for the UN Climate Conference. As delegates negotiated a global deal aimed at averting catastrophic climate change, a parallel human rights crisis is still unfolding in Peru and around the world.
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    Land governance in Brazil: a geo-historical review

    International Land Coalition, 2012
    This paper examines the paradoxes of land governance in Brazil by putting them in their historical context, highlighting in particular the continuing subordination of peasant farmers’ interests to those of large landholders.
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    Violations of indigenous peoples' territorial rights: the example of Costa Rica

    Forest Peoples Programme, 2014
    Costa Rica, the subject of this article, is an upper middle income country that is widely regarded as having a generally positive human rights record. It has also avoided the violent conflicts and political instability that have characterised most of its closest neighbours in the last decades of the 20th century.
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    impopo River Basin Focal Project: Framework and guide to review of policy and institutional literature

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2008
    This paper is intended to provide a framework and guide for the review of policy and institutional literature relevant to understanding the issues and opportunities for future development of the Limpopo River Basin. The actual literature review will be carried out during the first year of the Limpopo Basin Focal Project, and will be supplemented with key informant interviews.
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    Mediating land conflict in Burundi: a documentation and analysis project

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2011
    Mediating Land Conflict in Burundi: A Documentation and Analysis Project was an assessment and evaluation project undertaken by ACCORD between July 2009 and February 2010. The purpose of the project was twofold.
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    Social capital as obstacle to development: brokering land, norms, and trust in rural India

    MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2014
    During the 1990s, powerful development institutions like the World Bank came to see the social networks and norms of the rural poor in developing countries as 'assets' to be tapped for poverty alleviation.

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