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  Land restitution in South Africa: our achievements and challenges

  Department of Land Affairs, South Africa, 2003

  This paper examines the introduction of Restitution Act No 22 of 1994. The main aim of the Act was to provide for the restitution of land rights to persons or communities dispossessed after 19 June 1913 as a result of past racial discriminatory laws or practices.
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  Land reform, poverty reduction and HIV/AIDS

  Oxfam, 2001

  The paper offers proposals for integrating understanding of and response to the pandemic into land reform-related development activities.
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  Seeking ways out of the impasse on land reform in Southern Africa: notes from an informal ‘think tank’ meeting

  Oxfam, 2003

  Land reform in Southern Africa is currently at an impasse. This paper analyses the constraints to sustainable land reform and identifies ways and means of moving things forward.
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on land: case studies from Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa

  Oxfam, 2002

  The paper presents case studies from Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa in order to examine the impact of HIV/AIDS upon land, and present preliminary policy recommendations.
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  HIV/Aids and its impact on land issues in Malawi

  Oxfam, 2002

  This paper investigates how HIV/AIDS affects land access, utilisation and control in Malawi, with a particular focus upon vulnerable groups.
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on rural households and land issues in Southern and Eastern Africa.

  Oxfam, 2002

  This paper develops a conceptual framework to holistically explore the impact of HIV/AIDS on land, particularly at the rural household level.
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  The ‘new’ communities: land tenure reform and the advent of new institutions in Zambézia Province, Mozambique

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  Recently, new community-level institutions have emerged in Zambézia province, Mozambique, through land rights registration. Numerous rural groups have delimited their acquired land rights and established community-level management systems.
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  Land lease markets and agricultural efficiency: theory and evidence from Ethiopia

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2000

  This paper develops a theoretical model of land leasing that includes transaction costs, risk pooling motives and non-tradable productive inputs.
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  Land liberalisation in Africa: inflicting collateral damage on women?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Is the World Bank’s approach to land relations gender insensitive? Is it realistic to pin poverty reduction aspirations on the promotion of credit markets and reliance on women’s unpaid labour? Does the acquisition of secure tenure rights necessarily benefit poor women? How should advocates of women’s rights in Africa respond to the Bank’s land agenda?
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  The direct and underlying causes of forest loss

  World Rainforest Movement, 2003

  This paper assesses the underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation and the forces behind unsustainable agriculture. It demonstrates the far-reaching consequences of globalisation, in terms of land tenure policies and inequalities. It examines consumption and production patterns and the global problem with many actors.

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