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  Double standards: women's property rights violations in Kenya

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report recounts the experiences of 130 women from various regions, ethnic groups, religions, and social classes in Kenya who have had their property rights flouted because they are women.The report presents evidence that women are excluded from inheriting, evicted from their lands and homes by in-laws, stripped of their possessions, and forced to engage in risky sexual practices in order t
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  Fostering community-driven development: what role for the state?

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper examines case studies from Asia and Latin America to show the possibilities for states to tap into community-level energies and resources for development if they seek to interact more synergistically with local communities.Using case studies from Asia and Latin America, the report shows how: State efforts to bring about land reform, tenancy reform, and expanding non-crop sour
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  Land in Africa: an indispenable element towards increasing the wealth of the poor

  Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique, 2002

  The poor in Mozambique survive off the land, but what would the consequences be if the land was privatised?
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  Tenure security and land-related investment: evidence from Ethiopia

  World Bank Publications, 2003

  Report finds that land rights in Ethiopia are highly insecure, and higher tenure security and transferability could enhance investment and agricultural productivity.
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  The politics of rural land use planning in China

  Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany, 2002

  Looks at the allocation of land for specific purposes in the integrated land use plans that have come into effect across China since 1998..The paper: presents an analysis of the development of policies on national land use planning since the promulgation of the first Land Law in 1986.
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  Gender and soil fertility in Uganda: a comparison of soil fertility indicators on women’s and men’s agricultural plots

  African Studies Quarterly, 2002

  The study was conducted to determine whether the gender difference in wealth and land allocation between male and female farmers in male-headed households is manifested in soil fertility indicators. It determined chemical fertility levels (fertility indicators) in the composite topsoil samples from 5 woman-owned plots and 5 man-owned plots in Ntanzi village, Uganda, on a Rhodic Ferralsol.
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  Is land a human rights issue? approaching land reform in South Africa

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

  This essay briefly explores South African post-apartheid land reform as a human rights issue. It suggests that land reform has an ethically, politically and strategically important interface with international human rights.
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  The impact of land reform on commercial farm workers' livelihoods

  Farm Community Trust of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, 2001

  This study examines the situation of farm workers on five commercial farms in Mashonaland East and West, Zimbabwe, in March 2001.The paper finds that:farm workers’ livelihoods are inextricably linked with the fate of the farm itselfalmost all of the workers’ food and cash income comes from activities on the farm, their houses are on the farms and they pay relatively low or subsidise
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  Law, property rights, and social exclusion: a capabilities and entitlements approach to legal pluralism

  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2002

  What are the effects of trends away from legal pluralism towards more uniform approaches to the law? This paper analyses the effects of legal changes in property rights for people's welfare and development in India.
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  Tides shift on agrarian reform: new movements show the way

  Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2001

  This paper first introduces the concept of land redistribution of land through agrarian reform, that would allow for a more inclusive model of development. The author then demonstrates how land concentration leads to displacement (migration) of rural populations, and as a consequence increased pressure in urban centres.

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