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  Landless women, hopeless women? Gender, land and decentralisation in Niger

  Drylands Programme, IIED, 2006

  This paper is a summary of a case study on gender, land and decentralisation. It addresses how women in rural areas of Niger deal with pressure on land within changing agricultural production systems. A separate focus is on women’s land rights, and the strategies they use to capitalise on these rights.
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  The land question in South Africa

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2006

  The need for large-scale land redistribution in Southern Africa is undisputed. In order to redress centuries of dispossession, this highly complex process has the potential to encourage economic growth and poverty reduction.
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  The unresolved land reform debate: beyond state-led or market-led models

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  Sharp inequalities in the distribution of land remains a major cause of extreme poverty in many developing countries. Some instances are the result of ownership patterns inherited from colonial administrations, others are linked to the struggle for economic prosperity in the post-independence era.Landlessness is therefore a significant problem for the rural poor.
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  Land rights reform and governance in Africa

  United Nations Development Programme, 2006

  The main argument of this paper is that insecurity of land tenure is a socio-political condition that can be made and unmade. This discussion paper focuses on customary land rights, particularly in the African context.
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  More than simply "socially embedded": recognising the distinctiveness of African land rights

  Landrightswatch.net, 2006

  Land tenure reform remains a key policy issue in Africa, given the large proportion of people relying on land and natural resources for their livelihoods. This paper addresses the exclusionary nature of many processes around land, which can lead to social divisions.
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  Investing in maintaining mobility in pastoral systems of the arid and semi-arid regions of Sub-Saharan Africa

  Livestock, Environment and Development, Virtual Research and Development Centre, 2006

  This paper seeks to provide national and international policy-makers interested in the development of arid and semi-arid areas with background information and policy options, on whether and how to invest in mobility of pastoral systems in Africa.It first describes the trends leading to declining mobility, followed by a description of the key underlying causes for these trends and their impacts
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  Making property rights accessible: social movements andlegal innovation in the Philippines

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  Today, many rural poor Filipinos are using state law to try to claim land rights. In spite of the availability of a much stronger set of legal resources than ever before, claiming legal land rights remains difficult. Some argue these difficulties are a reason to turn away from state-led land reform and toward a market-assisted land reform (MALR) model.
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  The Movement of the Landless (MST) and the juridical field in Brazil

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This working paper focuses on the Movement of the Landless (MST) and the various legal strategies used to redefine property law in Brazil.
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  Policies and practices for securing and improving access to land

  International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, 2006

  This paper reviews recent policy and practice to secure access to land for poor people. Emphasis is on Africa, Latin America and Asia, while reference also is made to Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.Despite the widely different observations from the various places, the paper identifies some general trends and challenges.
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  A note on food security and land tenure security in Lesotho

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  In this note of food security and land tenure security in Lesotho, the authors present arguments in favour of the enactment and implementation of a legislation in Lesotho that will enhance land tenure security in the country.

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