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  Zimbabwe: fast track land reform in Zimbabwe

  Human Rights Watch, 2002

  This report considers the human rights implications of the 'fast track' process of land redistribution in Zimbabwe, under which the government has revised the constitution and amended legislation in order to allow it to acquire commercial farms compulsorily and without compensation, and the land occupations that have accompanied it since early 2000. It focusses on the violence that has accompan
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  Feedback report on communities reactions to the findings on the study of HIV/AIDS and its impacts on land tenure and livelihoods in Lesotho

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This report is a follow up of a study that was carried out in the year 2001/2 commissioned by the FAO and SARPN. The main objective of the initial study was an assessment of the negative impacts of HIV/AIDS on livelihoods of the affected and infected communities through lowering their agricultural productivity.
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  A conceptual analysis of the problems associated with real property development in sub-Saharan Africa

  De Montford University, Leicester, UK, 2001

  Forty per cent of sub-Saharan Africa's population live on less than a dollar a day and more than seventy per cent are currently without adequate shelter, so what has property got to do with it?
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  Land redistribution, tenure insecurity, and intensity of production: a study of farm households in southern Ethiopia

  CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2001

  This study analyses the determinants of land tenure insecurity and its impact on intensity of use of purchased farm inputs among households in southern Ethiopia. Seventeen percent of the households stated that they were tenure insecure.
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  Smallholder income and land distribution in Africa: implications for poverty reduction strategies

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2001

  It has been argued that many of the poverty reduction strategy papers pay insufficient attetion to the role of land access and land distribution in rural poverty. Redressing the inequalities between small-scale and large-scale farming sectots is likely to be an important element of an effective rural poverty reduction strategy in countries such as Zimbabwe and Kenya.
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  Land policy for pro-poor development: draft

  World Bank, 2002

  This draft paper outlines a strategy for World Bank involvement in land policies. It focuses on property rights to land, land transactions, and socially optimal use of land.
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  Fine grain-Finance: financial choice and strategy among the poor in rural North India

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2002

  This report gives a description of the financial life of residents with a limited basis for cash-crop and off-farm opportunities, hence restricting them to size of landholding as a critical indicator of wealth and status and influences access to cheap bank finance.The authors demonstrates that the use of informal mechanisms like reciprocal gifts, interest-free lending and borrowing and takin
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  Land reform and poverty alleviation: experiences from Namibia

  Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2001

  Redistributive land reform in Namibia is widely regarded as a precondition for sustainable rural development and poverty alleviation. This paper briefly discusses the development of thinking on land reform and the development of land reform models prior to Independence.
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  Forest certification: enhancing social forestry developments?

  Mekonginfo, 2001

  The author begins by providing a brief overview of the concept and reasoning behind certification of forest products. She states that, at the outset, one of the aims of certification was to provide market access and other benefits for small-scale, low-impact, community run ‘eco-timber’ projects.
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  Better livelihoods for poor people: the role of land policy

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This DFID consultation paper examines the importance of land, land rights and land reform in developing countries, and considers how land policies can contribute to poverty reduction and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

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