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    Who owns the world's forests?

    Forest Trends, 2002
    This study examines land tenure data for 24 of the 30 most forested countries accounting for 93% of the worlds natural forest cover and examines global trends in forest ownership.
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    Control of land and life in Burma

    Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
    Short critique of Burmese land and agricultural policy, as implemented in recent years by the military government (State Law and Order Restoration Council - SLORC)
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    Agrarian Reform in Uzbekistan and Other Central Asian Countries

    Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
    The five Central Asian countries that gained their independence at the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 have followed different paths of transition to a market economy in the agricultural sector. Kyrgyzstan has been the most aggressive in restructuring agricultural enterprises, privatizing land, and promoting individual farming.
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    Land reform and poverty alleviation in Mozambique

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002
    Brief overview of the policy background to the land reform process in Mozambique, and a very generalised assessment of the extent to which this reform is improving the livelihoods of Mozambican rural people.The paper focuses on the experiences of the land component of Zambézia Agricultural Development Project (ZADP) .
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    Challenging conventional wisdom: smallholder perceptions of land access and tenure security in the Cotton Belt of Mozambique

    Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
    A new land law went into effect in January 1998 in Mozambique.
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    Zimbabwe: land reform and resettlement: assessment and suggested framework for the future

    UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa, 2002
    Interim report on progress with Zimbabwe's fast track programme of land reform, with recommendations on future policy.Recommendations include: Moratorium on changes in existing laws and regulations until a comprehensive land policy can be developedA major effort is required to promote the improvement and growth of agricultural production and service linkages between industry and ag
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    The privatization process of rangeland and its impacts on pastoral dynamics in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya: the case of Western Sichuan, China

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 1999
    This article disucsses the effects of the last four decades of change in China in relation to traditional Tibetan pastoral production systems.
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    What drives tropical deforestation?: a meta-analysis of proximate and underlying causes of deforestation based on subnational case study evidence

    Land Use and Land Cover Change Project, 2001
    Using the framework of the Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) Science/Research Plan this study takes 152 studies of deforestation in different regions of varying size from around the tropics and analyses them to assess how important different causes of deforestation really are.
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    Kazakh nomads, rangeland policy, and the environment in Altay: insights from new range ecology

    Department of Applied and International Economics, Massey University, 2001
    This paper considers the degree of environmental variability in an extensive pastoral area of Altay, northern Xinjiang (China); assesses the extent to which institutional arrangements are able to accommodate environmental variability, and discusses the implications of this for rangeland policy.The article finds that:there is some inter-temporal variation in rangeland productivity (in pa
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    Grassland tenure in China: an economic analysis

    Department of Applied and International Economics, Massey University, 2001
    The primary purpose of this paper is to make a contribution towards extending the coverage of this cropland tenure literature to China's extensive grasslands, which comprise some 40% of its territory.The article finds that:there are two unique characteristics of grassland tenure in this territory: group tenure arrangements and 'fuzzy' boundariesin conventional microeconomic analysis

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