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  Gender and land compendium of country studies

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2005

  This compendium provides an improved understanding of the complex issues concerning gender and land. It draws on research commissioned by FAO.
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  The local politics of land and water: case studies from the Mekong Delta

  Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques, 2005

  This document takes a historical view of the relations between individual and collective actors in local water management in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam.
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  Agrarian reform in the context of food sovereignty, the right to food and cultural diversity: “land, territory and dignity”

  International NGO/CSO Planning Committee, 2006

  Through an analysis of the right to adequate food and the right to land, this civil society report, argued that achieving food sovereignty requires agrarian reform.
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  Land rights for African development: from knowledge to action

  CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2006

  This collection of briefing papers summarises select papers presented at the workshop: "Land Rights for African Development: From Knowledge to Action" held in November 2005.
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  Tinkering on the fringes?: redistributive land reforms and chronic poverty in Southern Africa

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006

  In Southern Africa, landlessness due to the asset alienation that occurred during colonial occupation has been acknowledged as one of several ultimate causes of chronic poverty. Land redistribution is often seen as a powerful tool in the fight against poverty in areas where a majority of people are rural-based and make a living mostly, if not entirely, off the land.
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  Can land registration serve poor and marginalised groups? summary report

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  This report summarise the research findings of a project to examine the current processes of land rights registration in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mozambique and assess their outcomes for poor and vulnerable groups.
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  Land Registration in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  This case study assesses the strengths and weaknesses of a simple, inexpensive, village-based land registration system put in place between 1996 and 1998 in Tigray, Ethiopia.The authors found that the system worked well and fairly - in large part due to it’s simplicity and low cost.
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  Land Registration in Eastern and Western Regions, Ghana

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  Assesses the process of rural land registration in Ghana and its outcomes for poor and marginalised groups.In Ghana, deeds registration has been in place since colonial times, and enables right holders to record their land transactions. However, very little rural land has actually been affected by this registration process.
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  Land registration and women’s land rights in Amhara Region, Ethiopia

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  Assesses the ongoing land registration process in the Amhara Region and its outcomes for women.
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  Land registration in Nampula and Zambezia provinces, Mozambique

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  Assesses the process of rural land registration in Mozambique and the outcomes for poor and marginalised groups. The research finds that community land registration, under the 1997 land law, can strengthen community rights to use and benefit from their land in relation to outsider interests in land.

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