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Searching with a thematic focus on Communal land, Land tenure, Agriculture and food

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  TRANCRAA and communal land rights: lessons from Namaqualand

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This policy brief argues that the time, funding and institutional support required to carry out tenure reform in South Africa have been seriously under-estimated. Reformed tenure rights are ineffective and vulnerable if isolated from other entitlements such as training, finance and integrated development initiatives.
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  How rich is our land? Re-valuing the communal areas of Southern Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How important is common land to rural people’s livelihoods? Are pooled resources a significant factor in household income? Why has communal land been so undervalued in recent studies?
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  Conflict to consensus: replacing rivalry with effective resource management in Burkina Faso

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  For over a hundred years the zone of Kisha Beiga, in Burkina Faso, was plagued by ethnic conflicts, revolution and political anarchy. Local rivalries and administrative chaos put paid to any efforts to manage natural resources efficiently. Then, in 1991, the Burkinabe Sahel Programme (PSB) set out to quell factional rivalry and establish sustainable resource-management in the area.
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  This land is your land. Rights and rural livelihoods in Southern Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Tenure reform aims to secure people's land rights. In Southern Africa most so-called 'communal' land, reserved for Africans, is still held by the state. In these areas, land rights are increasingly insecure. Yet, the confirmation of the rights of those who have long occupied and used the land lags behind programmes that aim to transfer white-held land to Africans.
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  Common property: can customary law adapt to the free market?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Transition from subsistence to market economy is not easy. In Papua New Guinea most land is still held under traditional systems of common property resource ownership and a growing cash economy can spark conflict concerning management or ownership issues.
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  Sahelian Shepherds still struggling 25 years after the big drought

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Since the early 1970s, the position of pastoralists in West Africa's Sahel zone has become ever more precarious. Their plight is evidenced by rural-urban migration movements as well as the results of field surveys. The last major drought of 1983-1985 delivered a major blow to communities which derive most of their food and revenues from herding.
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  Does ownership matter? Sustainable forestry in eastern and southern Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The 21st Century opened with a commitment to involving forest-local communities in the processes of securing and sustaining forests. But what is the relationship between people’s right to land and the manner in which they may be involved in the management of forests?
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  Managing common land: the Sahel experience

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  As decentralisation and tenure reform sweeps through the Sahel, doubts remain whether communities can look after commonly owned land. Is privatisation or state control the best means of preventing the degradation of resources? Can local communities forge institutional mechanisms to regulate competing claims on common resources?
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  Empowering forest users: lessons from Niger

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  As the pace of decentralisation in Africa quickens, how can external agencies help communities fulfill new management responsibilities? A study from Niger has implications for other parts of Africa where commitment to decentralised natural resource management is offering scope for radical new approaches to transferring power to local people.
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  Role of policies and development interventions in pastoral resource management: the Borana rangelands in southern Ethiopia

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2003

  Built on earlier quantitative assessment of the socio-economic drivers of the above changes, this paper focuses on the role of national level policies implemented in the area over the past decades, and how these have affected the traditional institutional setting that determines land use, property rights and pathways of livestock development.The paper uses a literature review combined with in-d

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