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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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  Agriculture versus protected areas

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Agriculturalists strive to increase crop production to provide poor communities with incomes and a secure food supply whilst environmentalists want to expand protected areas and reduce the intensity of farming.
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  The education of nomadic peoples in East Africa: review of relevant literature

  International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2005

  In the context of a renewed committment to Education For All (EFA) at Dakar, this study examines the apparent failure of most attempts to provide educational services to nomadic groups. The study focuses on Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
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  The effects of decentralization on Kenya’s forestry sector: cases from forests studied by the IRFI collaborating research centre in Kenya

  Kenya Forestry Research Institute, 2004

  Decentralisation and devolution have become dominant themes in the management of natural resources in the less developed countries.
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  The impact of water conflicts on pastoral livelihoods: the case of Wajir District in Kenya

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  This report describes and analyses relationships between natural resource-based conflicts and pastoral livelihoods in Wajir District, Kenya in order to examine the extent to which livelihood opportunities are lost to people when they spend their time and resources managing water related conflicts.The study findings confirm the assumption that water is a critical resource that determines success
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  Informal land delivery processes in African cities

  International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2005

  Informal systems for land delivery, which have in many cases evolved from earlier customary practices, still account for over half the land supplied for housing in African cities and are a particularly important channel for the poor.
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  The GM debate – who decides?: an analysis of decision-making about genetically modified crops in developing countries

  Panos Institute, London, 2005

  GM (genetically modified) crops are rapidly gaining ground in developing countries, even though their adoption is highly controversial. This report explores how decisions are made about GM food crops in five developing countries - Brazil, India, Kenya, Thailand and Zambia - by drawing on current research and personal interviews.
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  Using empirical information in the era of HIV/AIDS to inform mitigation and rural development strategies: selected results from African country studies

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2005

  This study looks at the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the socioeconomic impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa on the agricultural sector.
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  Land tenure, land use and sustainability in Kenya: towards innovative use of property rights in wildlife management

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2005

  Examining the assumption that private property rights create incentives for the management of resources, this paper argues that private property rights and current wildlife conservation and management laws and policies in Kenya fail to provide the solution to wildlife biodiversity erosion.
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  Human rights, formalisation and women’s land rights in southern and eastern Africa

  Institute of Women's Law, University of Oslo, 2005

  Land is a vital resource for rural livelihoods. Establishing and clarifying land rights through formalisation has become a key issue in development policies that aim to promote more productive uses of land. This report sets out a human rights-based approach (HRBA) for gender-equal and non-discriminatory land reform.

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