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  Land tenure in the Highlands of Eritrea: economic theory and empirical evidence

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This PhD study focuses on the land tenure systems in the highlands of Eritrea with a particular emphasis on land rental markets, land contract choice, and on the implications of land tenure systems for farm household’s resource allocation behaviour and efficiency outcomes.The author hopes that the theoretical and empirical analysis of these issues will also contribute to the debate on land tenu
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  Institutions and organisations in pasture and forestry management

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1998
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  NPA's Southern Sudan programme: an assessment with reference to the current Sudanese context and future institutional Cooperation with Noragric

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003
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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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  The maze of maize: improving input and output market access for poor smallholders in southern African region: the experience of Zambia and Malawi

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This study evaluates the causes of the 2001-3 food crisis in Zambia and Malawi, looks at existing policies and makes recommendations to avoid future crises.The study differentiates causes of the crisis (the maize harvest shortfall in 2001, as well as to why the shortfall caused a food emergency) between: immediate causes, such as reduced plantings due to low food prices the p
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  Re-constructing rights to land: from discourse to entitlement

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2002

  The paper offers two models for looking at land reform as a human rights issues in Namaqualand, South Africa.
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  Farming assets in North Wälo: statistics, maps and impressions from a travel to North Wälo, October 2000

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2002

  The report is based on information collected in the aftermath of the 1999 famine. It presents some basic information on North Wälo, as well as relevant impressions from the authors journey. Statistics from the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission show that all of North Wälo is exposed to famine, but the picture varies much from year to year.
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  Introducing geotechnology to developing country land agencies: challenges in Ghana

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  In Accra, as in other cities where rural-to- urban migration has added to the pressure on land, methods for the management and storage of land registry data are inadequate. How can land administration processes be automated through the introduction of information technology (IT) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)? What institutional changes must be put in place?
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  Risk-sharing networks among households in rural Ethiopia

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2003

  This paper tests the role of informal risk-sharing networks by setting up a limited commitment model and using panel data on informal credit transactions from Ethiopia.Findings:enforcement problems limit the direct role of credit transactions in risk sharing arrangements between rural households, whether the villages are ethnically homogenous or nothouseholds with more land have bet
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  Child farm labor: the wealth paradox

  Economics department, University of Bristol, 2003

  This paper is motivated by the observation that children in land-rich households are often more likely to be in work than the children of land-poor households.The vast majority of working children in developing countries are in agricultural work, predominantly on farms operated by their families.

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