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  Key experiences of land reform in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa

  Farm Africa, 2005

  Since 1994, the South African government has embarked on an ambitious land reform programme to redistribute and return land to previously disenfranchised communities. However, many black people lack the knowledge, skills and experience needed to manage their land.
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  Land reform and its impact on livelihoods: evidence from eight land reform groups in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa

  Farm Africa, 2005

  One of the key objectives of the South African land reform programme is to provide poor people with an additional asset that they could use to develop strategies to escape from poverty.
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  Managing resources in erratic environments: an analysis of pastoralist systems in Ethiopia, Niger, and Burkina Faso

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This study analyses the links between risk and the kinds of property rights that have evolved to provide the mobility needed to raise livestock where rainfall fluctuates, and it evaluates the impact of cooperation on resource management in these environments.Three interesting conclusions emerge from the analyses with respect to economic vulnerability and natural resource management in these env
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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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  State courts and the regulation of land disputes in Ghana: the litigants’ perspective

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper argues that Ghanaian litigants in land disputes favour authoritative state legal-institutions over out-of-court settlements.
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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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  Israel and the Occupied Territories: conflict, occupation and patriarchy, women carry the burden

  Amnesty International, 2005

  This report deals with the impact of violence against women in the Occupied Territories in the context of conflict, including violence committed by the Israeli state or its agents; the collapse of the rule of law within the Occupied Territories leading to a lack of implementation of existing laws; and the worsening effects of existing discrimination in both law and practice.
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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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  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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