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  Looking back, looking ahead : land, agriculture and society in East Africa : a festschrift for Kjell Havnevik

  Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2015

  Professor Kjell Havnevik is retiring from the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) in 2015. For four decades, he has carried out research, taught and supervised students as well as participated in policy debates on different aspects of agriculture, the environment and African and international development policies. His output has been voluminous and is internationally recognised.
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  Grassroots facilitators as agents of change for promoting sustainable forest management: Lessons learned from REDD+ capacity development in Asia

  The Centre for People and Forests, 2015

  This article explores the issues and concerns of grassroots stakeholders with regards to REDD+ policy and program development.
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  Na Ot village case study: Land tenure and resource rights

  The Centre for People and Forests, 2015

  This case study examines eight equity dimensions in sustainable forest management through the case study of Na Ot Village, Na Ot Commune, Mai Son District, Son La province in Viet Nam.
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  Past, present and future: fifty years of anthropology in Sudan

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2015

  This book is about the history of anthropology in Sudan. Contributors to the book represent different generations of anthropologists who at some point in time either taught at the department in Khartoum or had some sort of connection to it.
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  Property rights in land reform areas

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003

  Land redistribution or the transfer of ownership rights to the tiller has been the focal point of the land reform program in the Philippines. This transfer was envisioned to result in a significant shift in income and productivity in the agrarian sector. While some equalisation of incomes may have indeed occurred, the full benefits of this asset transfer, however, have not been realised.
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  Land Rights and Food Security: the linkages Between Secure Land Rights, Women and Improved Household Security and Nutrition

  Landesa, 2012

  As governments, the private sector, multilateral institutions, and international development organisations weigh the options for improving food security around the world, they must consider one of the most promising elements for addressing the needs of the world’s hungry and malnourished: secure land rights.
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  From Brazilian fields to Norwegian farms

  Norwegian Church Aid, 2014

  • Brazil has a Federal Constitution and consolidated legislation that provide for the protection of the environment, health and welfare of workers in rural areas.
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  What drives the global land rush?

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011

  Recent increases in the level of agricultural commodity prices and the resulting demand for land has been accompanied by a rising interest in acquiring agricultural land by investors. This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture.
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  A comparative study on cotton production in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 2014

  Center for Development Research (ZEF) report to evaluate the cotton production sectors in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and to develop potential avenues for improvement.
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  A promise betrayed: policies and practice penew the rural dispossession of land, rights and prospects

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015

  South Africans assumed on 27 April 1994 that their vote for freedom would erase the ethnic enclaves known as ‘Bantustans’ or ‘homelands’ and guarantee a common citizenship with equal rights under one law.

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