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    Fuelwood Consumption and Forest Degradation: A Household Model for Domestic Energy Substitution in Rural India [Rajasthan]

    Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
    Paper examines domestic energy supply and demand in Northwest India. A household model is set up to analyse the links between forest scarcity and household energy consumption, focusing on the substitution of fuels from the forests and commons and the private domain. The model is estimated using recently collected data from villages bordering Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan, India.
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    New Institutional Economics: A Survey of Property Rights and Natural Resource Management [case study from Rajasthan]

    Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
    In this paper, the results of a recent case study of forest conservation and management in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India are reported. Changes in land use, grazing, household fuelwood collection and inadequate management institutions are identified as key factors causing forest degradation.
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    Fighting an Uphill Battle: Population Pressure and Declining Land Productivity in Rwanda.

    Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1996
    Report draws attention to the structure of landholding as a set of mechanisms through which demographic changes in agrarian societies can alter the natural environment: demographically-induced change in the structure of landholding: farm holdings generally become smaller as an ever-increasing number of households enter the agricultural work force and seek to derive their livelihood from th
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    Contestation over Political Space: The State and Demobilisation of Party Politics in Kenya

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    Appraises political liberalization and subsequent contestation over political space in Kenya. The discussion centres on how, from the colonial period, elite politics have precluded organization and crystallization of popular democracy.The paper specifically examines the historicity of political factionalism and attendant decline of multi-partyism.
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    Deforestation and Land Use on the Evolving Frontier: An Empirical Assessment [in Nicaragua]

    Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999
    The advance of the agricultural frontier constitutes the biggest source of deforestation in Central America today. This conversion of tropical forests into agricultural land and pasture is the direct result of individual land use decisions.
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    Land Tenancy in Asia, Africa and Latin America: A Look to the Past and a View to the Future

    Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
    Literature review, focusing on recent and contemporary tenancy structures in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Tenancy for purposes of this review is broadly defined to include different leasing arrangements such sharecropping, labor tenancy, fixed cash rentals, and reverse leasing.
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    An ecological and historical perspective on agricultural development in Southeast Asia

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    Looks at location, natural resources, and different policies toward the elite's preemption of unused land shaped the historical development of different agrarian structures across Southeast Asia, conditioning agricultural growth performance until today.Aims to give a broad perspective on the process by which different agrarian structures developed in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, alo
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    Land management programme in Tanzania

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
    Evaluation of LAMP in different contexts:broader change processesdevelopment thinkingcomparative analysis of different conditions of LAMP in the four districts it has been implemented inFindings include: recommending that the programme shifts focus from considering its core as natural resources management to one of support to the empowerment, mobilisation and capaci
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    Plan of Action for People's Participation in Rural Development, FAO

    People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999
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    What makes a local organisation robust?: evidence from India and Nepal (ODI Natural Resource Perspectives)

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999
    The move towards decentralisation of resource control and management promises more efficient, equitable and sustainable resource use. Debate centres on what type of institutional arrangement in a given context is most appropriate and will lead to the fulfilment of the above ideal. Aspects of these arrangements include property rights structures as well as organisational structures.

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