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    Land reform, agriculture and poverty reduction

    Department for International Development, UK, 2004
    Most land-based livelihoods rely on having secure access to land, a precondition for sustainable agriculture, economic growth and poverty reduction. This working paper examines the state of knowledge with regard to aspects of land reform- redistributive reform, land tenure reform, and the issue of land markets.
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    The human right to food in Guatemala

    FoodFirst Information and Action Network, 2005
    This paper presents an analysis of the actions and omissions of the Guatemala State in respect to its obligations under the human right to food, and also refers to several paradigmatic cases of violations of the right to food within the context of the indigenous population and land and labour conflicts.
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    Exploring ecological and socio-economic issues for the improvement of area enclosure management: a case study from Ethiopia.

    Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2005
    Land degradation is a severe problem across sub-Saharan Africa, and Ethiopia is among the most affected countries.
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    Land tenure systems and their impacts on food security and sustainable development in Africa

    UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2004
    Recent food security crises in Africa have revived the debate on whether current land tenure systems constrain farmer innovation and investment in agriculture. Both direct and indirect linkages between land tenure and food security have been suggested. This study aims for a better understanding of these linkages.
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    Are rural women disadvantaged in asset ownership and business relations in the Kyrgyz Republic?

    BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004
    This paper examines how, over the past 10 years, Kyrgyzstan has privatised most of its agricultural land and distributed it to individual households. These households either farm alone or join together and farm cooperatively. This research seeks to examine whether women have been adversely affected in the process of privatisation, asset ownership, or business development.
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    Establishing farm-based equity-share schemes in KwaZulu-Natal: lessons from USAID's BASIS research programme

    BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004
    This proceedings issue from a mini conference held in November 2004 presents six papers summarising attempts to establish best practice equity-share schemes on two commercial farms in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
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    Local institutions and rehabilitation of common lands in the Aravalli hills, Haryana

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2003
    Legislation was passed in India in 1992 imparting constitutional status on Panchayati Raj (village-level local government) institutions.
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    India’s national agricultural policy: a critique

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2004
    The National Agricultural Policy (NAP) document released by the Government of Indian in 2000 aimed to attain an agricultural output growth rate in excess of 4 percent per annum, based on efficient use of resources, and sought to achieve this growth in a sustainable and equitable manner.This paper argues that (by 2004) no serious action had been initiated on most of the NAP’s proposals, and blam
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    At the crossroads: participatory forest management in Karnataka

    Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore, 2003
    This article attempts to assess whether the promises of the Joint Forest Planning and Management (JFPM) programme initiated in the Indian state of Karnataka in 1993 have materialised in terms of villagers managing their common lands sustainably, equitably and autonomously.
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    Wild resources theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

    Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2001
    This paper provides background information on access to natural resources in Southern Africa. Case studies are used from Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa, to explore customary rights and de facto access to a wide range of wild resources, in particular those of greatest importance to the rural poor.

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