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  Land rights and economic development: evidence from Vietnam

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper examines the impact of land reform in Vietnam which gives households the power to exchange, transfer, lease, inherit, and mortgage their land-use rights. The authors expect this change to increase the incentives as well as the ability to undertake long-term investments on the part of households.
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  Rights talk and rights practice: challenges for Southern Africa

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  This research in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe looks at the practice of rights claiming on the ground, in the context of 'legal pluralism' and complex, politicised institutional settings. In the southern African context rights are formulated and claimed in a very unlevel playing field and are highly contested.
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  Land reform for poverty redcution? social exclusion and farm workers in Zimbabwe

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper represents a provisional attempt to assess whether Zimbabwe’s land reform coherently addresses the issue of poverty reduction. It examines the short-term outcome(s) of the reform programme in relation to its initial objectives. More specifically, it examines its impact on farm-workers.
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  Land rights in crisis: restoring tenure security in Afghanistan

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2003

  This paper summarises the findings of a short exercise to identify land issues in present-day Afghanistan.
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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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