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  Land registration in Maputo and Matola Cities, Mozambique

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  Assesses the process of land registration in peri-urban areas of Mozambique and its outcomes for poor and marginalised groups. The research finds that there is little awareness of land registration processes on the part of low-income groups. The ‘individual’ registration process is slow and bureaucratic with high transaction costs and corrupt practices on the part of state institutions.
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  Land registration in Amhara Region, Ethiopia

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  Assesses the process to establish a system of land registration and improve land tenure security, and its outcomes for poor and marginalised groups in Amhara, Ethiopia .The registration process is found to be generating conflict at the local level, due to illegal land grabbing, encroachments into common lands and land sales.
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  Kinship, transaction costs and land rental market participation

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005

  With land being the main source of income for many people in the developing world, security of access or ownership rights is imperative to the alleviation of rural povety. Past polices of land redistribution, prohibition of land renting and later legalisation of short-term contracts only, may have prevented or undermined tenancy markets in Ethiopia.
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  Land tenure reform and gender equality

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  This brief explores the reform of land tenure institutions which re-emerged in the 1990s, and asks if these reforms are any more gender sensitive than those of the past?The paper highlights that a focus of the recent reforms has been on land titling, designed to promote security of tenure and stimulate land markets.
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  Agriculture and poverty in South Africa: can agriculture reduce poverty?

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2004

  Poverty and income inequality persist in South Africa despite efforts to eliminate them. Poverty is more pervasive in rural areas, particularly in the former homelands: the majority (65 percent) of the poor are found in rural areas and 78 percent of those likely to be chronically poor are also in rural areas.
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  Some outstanding issues in the debate on external promotion of land privatisation

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  Since the early 1990s, the dominant consensus in the debate on land rights reform in sub-Saharan Africa has been that external interventions to privatise land rights are usually inappropriate and likely to remain so.
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  Learning about urban development from the street

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Local entrepreneurs drive development in deprived neighbourhoods. Small-scale actions – rather than abstract urban planning by officials – are most effective. Planners should start observing street life and begin to understand that everyday practice and local enterprises can, with a little outside help, be scaled up to improve poor urban people’s lives.
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  Connecting economies: agrarian reform and rural poverty in South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The economy of post-apartheid South Africa continues to grow. Yet between 45 and 55 percent of the population remain in poverty. This inequality is most obvious in rural areas, where over 70 percent of poor people live. Policymakers are increasingly recognising the importance of rural land reform to poverty reduction.
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  Land reform and food security issues in Angola and South Africa

  African Labour Research Network, 2005

  Effective and well-designed land reform policies can provide sustained contributions to economic growth, reduced social unrest and poverty. This study analyses land reform policies in Angola and South Africa with a view to assess its impact on food security.
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  Supporting land reform in South Africa: participatory planning experience in the Northern Cape Province

  Farm Africa, 2005

  This paper documents a participatory approach for supporting black South Africans in developing knowledge and skills to use land, acquired under the land reform scheme, more effectively.

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