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  Land reform in Zimbabwe – good for poor black farmers?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Zimbabwe’s fast-track land reform has had a bad press. Reports of violence and intimidation have obscured the reality that formal procedures used to settle black farmers in model villages bear a striking resemblance to earlier colonial procedures.
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  Population pressure, migration and urbanisation: impacts on crop–livestock systems development in West Africa

  International Livestock Research Institute, 2001

  Population growth and urbanisation are driving a livestock revolution. Mixed farming systems are the present and the foreseeable future of West African livestock systems, with concurrent changes in livestock feeding systems and the role of grazing, fodder and penning. The livestock economy has to be seen as part of a national economy in which urban and rural facets interact.
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  Land problems in Nakivale settlement and the implications for refugee protection in Uganda

  Refugee Law Project, Uganda, 2003

  Ugandan refugee policy is characterised by the encampment of refugees in designated and enclosed settlements in rural areas, removed from the mainstream economic and political activity of the country.
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  Models for recognising indigenous land rights in Latin America

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper discusses issues surrounding indigenous land rights, sharing an understanding and information about land tenure and titling within Latin America.
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  Are rural women disadvantaged in asset ownership and business relations in the Kyrgyz Republic?

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper examines how, over the past 10 years, Kyrgyzstan has privatised most of its agricultural land and distributed it to individual households. These households either farm alone or join together and farm cooperatively. This research seeks to examine whether women have been adversely affected in the process of privatisation, asset ownership, or business development.
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  Establishing farm-based equity-share schemes in KwaZulu-Natal: lessons from USAID's BASIS research programme

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This proceedings issue from a mini conference held in November 2004 presents six papers summarising attempts to establish best practice equity-share schemes on two commercial farms in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
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  Reasons for food insecurity of farm households in South Wollo, Ethiopia: explanations at grassroots

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper takes a grassroots approach to understand the causes of the variation in food security status among rural farm households Ethiopia.The research is carried out by the Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems (BASIS) project in Ethiopia which conducted a panel of household surveys since June 2000 in four study districts in South Wollo and Oromia zones of Amhara region.
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  Land, violent conflict and development

  OECD Development Centre, 2004

  This paper looks at the dynamics of land and violent conflict. It states that conflict situations in rural societies deeply affect the politics of land, and that land requires a careful approach by policy makers because it is a central element in the evolution of societies.
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  Agrarian change, gender and land rights: a Brazilian case study

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2003

  This paper examines the marginalization of women's land rights by governmental institutions and rural women's movements in Brazil.
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  The impact of HIV AIDS on land rights: case studies from Kenya

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2004

  This study explores the relationship between HIV/AIDS and land rights in Kenya, with a particular focus on women as a socially vulnerable group.

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