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Managing common land: the Sahel experience
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002As 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?DocumentEmpowering forest users: lessons from Niger
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002As 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.DocumentRole of policies and development interventions in pastoral resource management: the Borana rangelands in southern Ethiopia
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2003Built 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-dDocumentWildlife management and land reform in Southeastern Zimbabwe: a compatible pairing or a contradiction in terms?
Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003Is land reform compatible with wildlife management? Zimbabwe is seeking to combine the redistribution of large, 'under-utilised' landholdings to smallholders, with wildlife management, which needs extensive land holdings to be viable.DocumentLand policies for growth and poverty reduction
World Bank, 2003This report sets out the results and key insights from recent research on land policy and analysis of specific interventions relating to land.DocumentTackling gender issues in sustainable land management
Centre for Development and Environment, Berne, 2002This toolkit provides a framework for main-streaming gender in rural development activities.It addresses the lack of conceptual and practical tools in the area of sustainable land management.DocumentEthnic conflict, institutions and the tragedy of the commons: when human diversity hinders economic growth: empirical evidence from a sample of African countries
Eldis Document Store, 2003This paper analyses the effect of ethnic conflict on economic growth.DocumentSustainable rural livelihoods: practical concepts for the 21st century
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1991Working on the premise that in the 21st century there may be two or three times the human population than at the time of writing, this paper explores the concept of sustainable livelihoods.DocumentAssessment of rural poverty: Asia and the Pacific
International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2002This report argues that land reform, both tenancy reform and redistribution of ceiling surplus lands to the landless, is important to poverty alleviation.The paper argues that in addition to production benefits, land reform helps to change the local political structure by giving more voice to the poor.