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  Exploring ecological and socio-economic issues for the improvement of area enclosure management: a case study from Ethiopia.

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2005

  Land degradation is a severe problem across sub-Saharan Africa, and Ethiopia is among the most affected countries.
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  Land reform in South Africa:a 21st century perspective

  Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa, 2005

  This document investigates the concept of land reform in South Africa and argues that there is a need to redefine 'land reform' to take account of the realities of an urbanising, modernising, economy. It analyses recent political developments on land issues and sheds light on the current process of land reform as well as agro-climatic, economic, budgetary constraints that impinge on the process.
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  Bringing equality home: promoting and protecting the inheritance rights of women

  Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2004

  In this report, the COHRE Women and Housing Rights Programme (WHRP) documents the fact that under both statutory and customary law, the overwhelming majority of women in sub-Saharan Africa (regardless of their marital status) cannot own or inherit land, housing and other property in their own right.
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  Land tenure systems and their impacts on food security and sustainable development in Africa

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2004

  Recent food security crises in Africa have revived the debate on whether current land tenure systems constrain farmer innovation and investment in agriculture. Both direct and indirect linkages between land tenure and food security have been suggested. This study aims for a better understanding of these linkages.
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  Land tenure in drylands: summary of e-conference discussion

  FRAME, 2005

  This summary document provides a synthesis of the key issues and discussion points emerging from a four week online conference on the subject of land tenure in drylands.The broad areas of discussion were as follows:Drylands Tenure Policy. What are the contents and essential elements of Drylands Tenure Policies?Strategies for implementing land tenure reform in drylands.
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  Access to land, growth and poverty reduction in Malawi

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  After four decades of agricultural-led development strategies in the postindependent Malawi, economic growth has been erratic and a large proportion of the population live below the poverty line and studies suggests that the poverty situation has worsened.
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  Investment in land, tenure security and area farmed in northern Mozambique

  Households in Conflict Network, 2003

  The analysis of land investment and tenure security usually assumes land scarcity. However, some developing countries have communities with land abundance. This article therefore examines the effects of land abundance for investment and tenure security. The author finds that in contrast to the literature, area farmed is a determinant of investment and tenure security.
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  Who should own Indonesia’s forests? Exploring the links between economic incentives, property rights and sustainable forest management

  Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia, 2004

  Indonesia’s forests have been disappearing rapidly since the 1980s: 1.8 million hectares per year are estimated to have been deforested between 1985 and 1997.
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  Lessons from the land reform movement in West Bengal, India

  Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 2004

  The Indian state of West-Bengal saw two major turnarounds in its rural sector in the eighties.
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  Allocation and tenure instruments on forest lands: a source book

  US Agency for International Development, 2004

  This book, prepared by the Philippine Environmental Governance Project, serves as a reference guide for field personnel in guiding communities, investors, local government units, private persons and other organisations desiring to apply for tenure instruments on forest lands.The book covers all existing tenure and allocation agreements for the management and use of forest resources in forest la

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